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
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 :
Designing for the 100%: how inclusive design scaled across Singapore's digital government
Products that work for most people still fail the people who need them most, and in public services those failures carry real cost. This lecture makes the case for why inclusivity and accessibility belong at the center of design practice. Drawing on her work leading the initiative in 2020 and 2021, Gloria traces how inclusive design took root in Singpass, how it spread across government digital services, and which tools and standards carry the work forward today. Students leave with a working view of how to build inclusive practice inside an organization.
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