Artful Design | Design Etudes

Each of the eight chapters in Artful Design presents a design etude—a study"or exercises designed to practically explore the ideas in the chapter. Here they are for anyone to use (e.g., in classrooms), under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).



Design Etude #1: Functional-Aesthetic Analysis
Part 1: Taking Notice • Part 2: Means and Ends • Part 3: Guerrila Design

Design Etude #2: Inside-out Design
Part 1: Inside-out Brainstorm • Part 2: Prototype It! • Part 3: One More Thing...

Design Etude #3: Seeing Sound!
Part 1: Waveform • Part 2: Spectrum• Part 3: Protoype, Personality, Narrative

Design Etude #4: Design a Sound Logo!
Part 1: Pragmatics • Part 2: Aesthetics • Part 3: Deployment • Part 4: Documentation

Design Etude #5: Instrument Prototype
Part 1: Deconstruct • Part 2: Sketch • Part 3: Prototype • Part 4: Deploy

Design Etude #6: Gamefy!
Part 1: Analyze & Articulate • Part 2: Imagine & Sketch • Part 3: Gamify

Design Etude #7: Social Design
Part 1: Familiar Strangers • Part 2: Imagine & Sketch • Example: "Soul Train"

Design Etude #8: Self Reflection
The things that move you and the things that make you still...

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