Blucher Design Proceedings

Dezembro 2021, vol.9, num.5 - 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research
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Applying psychology for design students: reflections and future work

Applying psychology for design students: reflections and future work

Morrissey, Kellie; Munday, Niamh; Kennedy, Aidan; Brennan, Maya

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Despite many programmes educating student designers in both human-centred and (increasingly) ‘more-than-human’ design, the psychology taught to such design students is often truncated, decontextualized, and potentially even harmful if applied without care and sensitivity. Conversely, a more complete reading of psychological theory and literature may help student designers to cultivate their growing practice with regard to ethical conduct and the design of products, services and systems that serve, rather than marginalise, already vulnerable users. This short, reflective paper describes the running of a new module, Psychology for Design, for final year Product Design students. Through annotated examples of student design work, we describe how critical engagement with psychological theory and literature helped students to redesign a series of artefacts in order to imagine them as more accessible, safer, or conducive to health and wellbeing. The paper concludes with a series of short questions which may guide future work in the area.

Despite many programmes educating student designers in both human-centred and (increasingly) ‘more-than-human’ design, the psychology taught to such design students is often truncated, decontextualized, and potentially even harmful if applied without care and sensitivity. Conversely, a more complete reading of psychological theory and literature may help student designers to cultivate their growing practice with regard to ethical conduct and the design of products, services and systems that serve, rather than marginalise, already vulnerable users. This short, reflective paper describes the running of a new module, Psychology for Design, for final year Product Design students. Through annotated examples of student design work, we describe how critical engagement with psychological theory and literature helped students to redesign a series of artefacts in order to imagine them as more accessible, safer, or conducive to health and wellbeing. The paper concludes with a series of short questions which may guide future work in the area.

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DOI: 10.5151/ead2021-159

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Morrissey, Kellie; Munday, Niamh; Kennedy, Aidan; Brennan, Maya; "Applying psychology for design students: reflections and future work", p-138-148. In: 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research. São Paulo: Blucher, 2021.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/ead2021-159

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