This website, our prompt cards and the rudimentary use of an AI design chatbot, are the output - ACT III - of our Research Paper entitled "Designing Futures by Empowering Novice Designers".The Report is available for download and we encourage you to peruse the open...
Just two novice designersWe consider ourselves to be novice designers, aspiring to become designers of the future. This website, our prompt cards and our initial take on 'Design AI' are our response to our own research question - How might we equip inexperienced designers with...
Given the staggering rate of development within generative artificial intelligence models, we are confident that our AI mentor chatbot will be considered out-of-date by the time we publish our research document (April 2024). However, the Design Mentor provides a rudimentary example of the customization of...
Our prompt cards are intended to motivate novice designers - and we include ourselves in this definition of design expertise - to develop and maintain their own design habits of practice. In doing so, we borrow inspiration from two sources:Deliberate Practice - which involves not...
As two Graduate students in the MDes program in Strategic Futures & Innovation at Ocad University, we're required to complete a major research project to complete our studies. However, this project has morphed into something more than a requirement. We entered the MDES program with little...