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AI, Machine Learning and Computational Design: How the products you design today are shaping your future
Now more than ever, you have the opportunity to actively design and manifest the world you want to live in.
I sat in on a webinar on computational design with the absolutely brilliant John Maeda and Leah Buley today. This post is my stream of consciousness response.
John brought up the fact that AI is an incredible thing, with endless possibilities, and talked a bit about how we need to shift our current approach to educating the designers of the future.
It got me thinking about traditional design education. John joked about needing to start with a clean slate.
In the past, design education taught a foundation in design principles that are still important today. Then you were taught how to use tools. Then you combined the principles and the tools and you were able to make a living being a designer by kicking out physical deliverables.
The breakneck speed at which tools and technology are changing has caused a huge rift between education and becoming a design practitioner. Focusing half an education on tools isn’t helpful. The tools you’re taught to use in your first year will be completely out of date (and may not even still exist) by your 4th year. Education needs to…
