Theory and Method
In focused theory-based seminars, students build a solid foundation in design strategy, leadership, and research methods, engaging with critical frameworks and emerging topics to tackle real-world challenges.
| Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
| Emerging Topics in Design | Design Strategies and Leadership |
| Design Research Methods | Design Management & Strategic Innovation |
Guest Lectures and Workshops
Guest Lectures
Inclusive Prototyping (or when we make things together)
Who gets a seat at the table? What happens when we design with and not for? During this session, Liping will share her experiences of working together with disabled experts in developing solutions for different contexts.
Speaker:
Chan Li Ping, UCL DDI & SG Enable
Design Research × AI
This session explores how Prasanth uses AI in design research, including automating repetitive work, creating and testing prototypes faster, and working through research results. It also covers the parts that still need a designer’s judgement: choosing what to study, working with participant information, and making sense of the results.
The session uses a research project at Open Government Products as a case study. The study examined how members of the public distinguish genuine government calls from spoofed calls. It shows how Prasanth used AI to build custom research tools that simulated calls, create more realistic prototypes for testing, and turn unstructured research data into structured data for analysis.
Speaker :
Workshops