Experience (Summer 2023)
Objective
Through Experience, students will understand how to conceive, design, visualize and communicate overall experience while using research to inform potential designs, thinking strategically about design, and working within constraints and opportunities that arise from business, technology or policy.
Experience is a studio course that is centered around an individual capstone project, where students will drive and deliver an end-to-end experience.
I encouraged students to create anything they want, especially an area they've been meaning to explore for their last semester at CCA.
Topics
Immersion and research
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What are experiences?
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Documenting what's happening
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Relationships, influences and dimensions of an experience
Strategy and synthesis
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Brand strategy and systems
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Delivering the experience and measuring success
Prototyping and communicating
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Fidelity level and why it matters
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Definition of done
Execution
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Co-creation and community-led practices
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Cross-functional collaboration
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Test and evaluation concepts
Communication by Design (Fall 2022)
Objective
Communication by Design focuses on communication and collaboration capability development through reflection, conceptualizing, experimenting, and doing/making. The course is a “communication crucible” that requires actively exercising reading, self-reflection, writing, presentation, and interpersonal skills across a variety of contexts.
I introduced non-violent communication to the core course.
Topics
Why we communicate
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Foundations: Communication as relational
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Self-knowledge and self-awareness
How we communicate
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Non-violent communication
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Critique and collaboration foundations
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Collaborative decision-making
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Recognizing and understanding power
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Communicating outward
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Telling a persuasive story
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Public speaking and presentations
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Practicing difficult conversations
Communication in context
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Peer leadership
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Communication at work
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