Design Management
Debate: How to Brainstorm Effectively
In my recent post Susan Cain: The power of introverts, I mentioned that I agreed with Cain’s view on brainstorming — that it is beneficial to allow participants to brainstorm on their own before discussing ideas in a group setting. Then last week I came across more articles discussing the procedure of brainstorming.
Infographic Design Rules
Lately, I’ve come across quite a few articles about infographic design — determining whether or not it is overused and discussing proper usage. Here are two articles and my favorite takeaways: The Do’s And Don’ts Of Infographic Design from Smashing Magazine. Show, Don’t Tell — A rule of cinema is to show, don’t tell. The [...]
Synectics & Pughsion™
Synectics Class Exercise As I’m finishing up with an online Financial Management class that is all numbers, I was just thinking how I’d rather be facilitating creative thinking right now. Then I started thinking back about a presentation my former classmate Rebecca Mahl and I did on the problem solving methodology synectics, as well as [...]
Ethnographic Study of Art Supply Buying Habits
Overview The purpose of this study was to examine the habits of dorm-dwelling students in search of art/design supplies in order to understand how important location is in relation to price and other contributors to the idea of value. We explored opportunities that one store in Savannah may have in overcoming the disadvantage of proximity [...]
Recycling in Savannah
How to Motivate People to Create Better Recycling Habits through Awareness, Education and Convenience Overview For my final project in the Design Management program at SCAD, I wanted to take a closer look at recycling in Savannah, GA. The purpose of my study was to reveal a better way to encourage and enable recycling for [...]
Building a New Brand
Setting the Foundation With my background in Graphic Design, I have designed visual identities for existing brands, but I’ve never had the opportunity to develop the framework for a new brand from the ground up. At SCAD, I was able to work with five other students from different disciplines in a sponsored collaborative design class [...]
Texting While Driving Infographics
Idea Visualization The first phase of this research project involved collecting various statistics related to texting while driving. After recognizing patterns in the data, our team classified the information into semantically appropriate visual models that show relationships with multivariate data. These visual models were presented in a poster.
Knowledge Sharing Network
Currently, Design Management is represented so inconsistently that there is both an opportunity and a need for Design Managers to define our field and chart a course for the profession. The development of a central network entity is the perfect way to allow Design Managers to share their knowledge, projects and experiences. This forum of [...]
Web Design & Videos
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations Website Design Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations was a start-up rental property management business when I began working on their site as a freelance job in February 2008. I designed comps for all the primary and secondary pages, then built out the entire site. The company grew very quickly, and I maintained [...]
Facilitating Creative Thinking
Facilitating the Creation and Evaluation of Video Projects in Education Background We live in a media saturated society where media affects the way that we interact with and understand the world around us. While the concept of media literacy has been around since the early 20th century, its only in the past 10 years that [...]