Meredith Davis heads up one of the few Ph.D. programs in design in the United States. I was surprised and thrilled to read her recent AIGA interview about the state of design education, where she references my design maturity continuum to discuss the challenges and opportunities for design education today. Wow!

So, a couple weeks ago, Business Week published a piece on D-schools (that’s design schools, in case you’re guessing) as the source for design thinking talent. While the puff pieces on design grads didn’t really grab me, I enjoyed this table comparing different d-school programs that also includes design-savvy business school programs.

Henry Mintzberg is one of my favorite business authors. A decade ago, he founded a new kind of graduate business degree to address shortcomings of traditional MBA programs. The International Masters in Practicing Management focuses on educating mindsets over siloed skillsets, something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately myself.
In describing some of the […]

So this interview with David Kelley at NextD is interesting - the biggest thing I took away was the focus on simply bringing design awareness to other disciplines as key to d.school policy:
In any given class, we will have professors from several different schools. When students graduate, they will fulfill all the requirements of […]