In today’s class we discuss the notion of Designing with Intent. It is a simple concept (well, no concept as such), but serves as a good guiding tool when looking at the design from the human centric approach.
I see this as a corollary from the User Centered Design process and the emphasis on the intent part.
The usage of the word intent of-course makes it appear a bit stronger.
I made the students of my class do this simple exercise of mapping their diploma projects to this intent. The discussions that followed were interesting.
As is the case with a lot of my classes, I often showcase Videos in the class. As designers, getting to listen to these thought leaders is often interesting and gives a point of view that is then discussed. I use these videos to encourage the art of Design Criticism which is something I want all my students to become good at.
For this class we saw the TED video by John Hockenberry, where he claims that we are all designers and that the only thing that we should focus on is the Designing for Intent.
