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design discussion 3/6/09

matt snyder - sketching

drafting as sketching
powerpoint sketching
social aspect of sketching
sketching as philosophy
idea ’stealing’

brainstorming stuff

individual brainstorming eventually coalesced
draw from fantasy / science fiction…
…or even suggest non-digital artifacts
understand the core before you brainstorm
identify constraints, brainstorm, then remove constraints, brainstorm
be non-critical
achieve a playful ‘brainstorming mindset’
personalize ideas (by naming people, you grab their attention)
get hung up on one thing [...]

design discussions

First of all, thanks to Chad Camara and Thatlith Nasir for setting up a bi-weekly design discussion group, built to host two speakers every other week and stimulate communication between our program members. Last semester we heard for students, mentors, and faculty alike that the new first-years were noticeably poor at communicating with each other [...]