Work and thoughts on design research and design education

Thinking Design

  • Now with graphs!

    Now with graphs!

    Project planning with GPT-4 Using D4.js and html+css I was able to prompt GPT-4 to plan a project and then plot a rudimentary Gantt. It is easy to see how this could be integrated into a project planning tool and how using the LLM dependencies could be established automatically. Combine this with the ability to…

  • VR in design and design in VR

    VR in design and design in VR

    I am speaking to you now from inside the meta-verse I am writing this part of the blog sat in a virtual meeting room in Meta’s Horizon workrooms. I have it connected to my Mac and I’m using the voice dictation feature in the Mac to create the text. So I am literally speaking to…

  • AI impact on Education

    AI impact on Education

    AI in Design AI as a design tool Exploring the current capabilities of AI as a design tool. AI as a research tool This work still to be fully reported AI impact on design skills AI impact on design assessment

  • What the thunder said

    What the thunder said

    How might the new LLM landscape impact on design education in the short term? Long term, or even medium term, all bets are off. But in the short term here and now what do things look like for the immediate impact of how the current crop of LLMs will impact how we conduct design research…

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