Design Principles

Just as you feel like you have your mind wrapped around Design Thinking, we have to throw a wrench into the works. DESIGN is not a single process that works every time, so much as it is a series of personal attributes or ABILITIES that designers embody as they work through a design. Read this article to have a better understanding of the relationship and boundaries between THE design thinking process and general design abilities.

Listen to this podcast, with accompanying helpful text as David Kelly describes the 8 core design abilities utilized by great designers

This introduction to the design abilities is the next logical step after students learn the process of Design Thinking in order to better learn different approaches to creative problem solving.

This Google Slides presentation from the d.School is an excellent and rich resource. It is designed as a Zoom centered introduction to ideas around design. With some modification we can utilize this with our students.

This webinar is about what the design abilities look like, feel like, and how they manifest in a K-12 environment. This is a brief overview of all of the abilities and a deep dive into one ability: Learn from Others.

The d.school takes a deeper dive into the next of the abilities: Ambiguity