Ronald Jones gave us last lecture a really good impression of the future of designing. A designer should be more interdisciplinary and get away from designing individual items towards system designing. Really interesting is the new concept of D-schools and the great future employment perspectives for D-school majors. My girlfriend just decided to start a business university career after completing an apprenticeship in media design, due to the bad future perspectives in that field. I study Business administration and Engineering and can see thereby the advantages of an interdisciplinary education. And once again a successful businessman and the co founder of SAP, Hasso Plattner, has realized this trend several years ago and gave 35 million dollars to found the Stanford D-school. In the year 2005 yet the “business week” titled “Tomorrow's B-School? It Might Be A D-School”. According to the article the famous business schools are hooking up with design schools or founding their own institutes. As all these made me curious and so I did some research to find out what these interdisciplinary designers came up with in the last years. Here are some interesting things I have found:
- Design of Mozilla’s Firefox
- A system of SmartCards to optimize the work environment for TV series authors
- A digital rental service
- A congress method for sustainable economy
- A card system to help disabled people
Most of these innovations come from the School of Design Thinking of the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany.
All these system design innovations made me curious and I start to wonder if I have chosen the right major. I think a really good career would be a Bachelor in Business Admin and Engineering with a Master in Design. All this fits in the future vision of convergence of technologies.
Converging systems have to be designed not single technologies.
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