workshops

quick to prototype workshop led by Professor Colin Burns, designer, entrepreneur and educator is part of the People and Design module shared by Master of Design and MSc Design Ethnography students in semester one.

This is the fifth year Colin has run this very popular workshop. Colin shares his knowledge of user-centred design acquired during his ten years with international design consultancy IDEO, introducing service design using case studies from the RED team at the Design Council and has the students employing rapid ethnography, quick prototyping and a raft of other methods by the end of the workshop.

design against crime workshop led by Professor Mike Press and Gus Colvin. Mike Press and Gus Colvin have worked extensively in the fields of crime prevention and teamworking: this one day workshop challenges students to quickly bond in teams, identify and suggest solutions to crime opportunities.

visualisation workshop led by Phillip Joe. Phillip wrote the definitive guide to visualisation for the Design Council. In this one day workshop Phillip introduces visualisation as a way to make ideas tangible, sharable and communicable. Read his paper here: Visualisation.pdf.

personas and scenarios workshop led by Alan Munro. Alan describes how he works as an overlap of design, research and insight. All are informed by his background in social science and work with computer scientists and designers.