How I Teach: Reflecting on fifteen years in design education - Tapa blanda

I've taught design for 15 years, and when I started teaching, I felt very much like I was doing it wrong and everyone would find out. No one taught me how to teach, and so I felt alone and overwhelmed in developing course materials. Over time, I learned how to teach by building on the work of other great professors and through informed trial and error. This book captures what I've learned along the way - how to teach. You’ll learn to develop course plans, establish foundational skills, run a design studio, build evaluation checkpoints, and assess and grade student progress. This material is useful for new professors and adjunct instructors who are just starting out. Creative directors will also find value in leveraging these approaches as they build out training for their internal teams. And, individual designers can utilize the methods and processes described here as they evolve their skills and advance their practice.

Jon is a Partner at Modernist Studio, and the Founder of Austin Center for Design. He was previously the Vice President of Design at Blackboard, the largest educational software company in the world. He joined Blackboard with the acquisition of MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students succeed in college and get jobs. Jon has also held the positions of Executive Director of Design Strategy at Thinktiv, a venture accelerator in Austin, Texas, and both Principal Designer and Associate Creative Director at frog design, a global innovation firm. He has been a Professor of Interaction and Industrial Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he was instrumental in building both the Interaction and Industrial Design undergraduate and graduate programs. Jon has also held the role of Director for the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), and Editor-in-Chief of interactions magazine, published by the ACM. He is regularly asked to participate in high-profile conferences and judged design events, including the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. He has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Design Studies of Monterrey, in Mexico, and Malmö University, in Sweden. Jon is the author of five books: Thoughts on Interaction Design, Published by Morgan Kaufmann Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis, Published by Oxford University Press Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving, Published by Austin Center for Design Well Designed: How to use Empathy to Create Products People Love, Published by Harvard Business Review Press Creative Clarity, Published by Brown Bear Press