PracticeLeading with vision_In speculative or visionary design, sometimes "form follows fiction." Designers imagine futures that aren’t bound by today’s constraints. These explorations challenge assumptions and inspire innovation—not in spite of…
Go above and beyond Striving for Excellence in Everything PracticeArt and literature provide diverse methods for conveying messages, whether visually or through words, Exposure to various artistic styles enhances the…
PracticeWhy are you prototyping? Do NOT prototype for the sake of prototyping.1. Always make sure you can answer this question before you begin to prototype. Create a prototype to answer…
PracticeScrutinize a product and benchmark it against existing designs.Each exercise description was slightly modified from Material and Process course assignments, meticulously designed by Prof. Warren Ginn at NC State UniversityObjectiveProduct…
Practice This practice involves analyzing visual language and design anatomy. Brands use visual language to communicate features three-dimensionally. Many brands have developed their own visual grammar, consisting of design elements…
Daily PracticeThese Sketchnotings were done by one of my former students-Wei Wang. When he was studying and sketching existing products, he's not only drawing them but also used sketching to…
Daily PracticeExploded views reveal how things work. Sketching deepens your understanding of spatial relationships, mechanisms, and design logic in ways photos alone can’t. Make the effort to truly study, not…
Daily PracticeExplore widely, from water flow, ginkgo leaves, insects, animals, human figures. Try to observe and understand the object first, proportion, the mass or the volume, subtle surface transition, form…
Daily Practice After have studied the internal components or had a clear idea of the volumes or structure frame a product needed, the approach of use planes to visualize the mass…
Daily PracticeSketch StormingOnce the conditions and constrains was settled through early user research and prototype study, Sketch Storming is a great way for initially coming up with lots of ideas…