Artigo:

The research intends to understand and identify possible improvements for the design education to be inserted in the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brazil. The main motivation stems from the researcher's 15-year academic and professional experience, which identified the difficulty for new designers to find work, although the number of graduate vacancies in the area has increased in recent years. The work starts from the assumption that, in order for design students to be more effective in their learning for the market, it is necessary to characterise the practice as: student practice, project practice, professional practice and social practice of design (PINTO e CARVALHO, 2018). As presented by Lave, J., & Wenger (1991), practice can only be learned in the “situation”, participating and legitimising itself in “a practical community” from which tacit is experienced, which cannot be explained. The collection of information started with the realisation of digital ethnographic research (Murthy, 2008), considering the National Examination of Student Performance (ENADE) and the conduct of exploratory research with 200 students and graduates on how to evaluate what is offered by educational institutions and what is demanded by the market. The analysis of the collected data is in the phase of comparing the results of ENADE with the perception obtained by conducting a student satisfaction survey in undergraduate courses at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The preliminary results validate the relevance of studying the knowledge gap about "situated practice" in design. The challenge is to apply new procedures so that we can trace better forms of teaching / learning with a focus on practice.