Design Thinking | Doreen Lorenzo | TEDxUTAustin

When’s the last time you worked together on a team to attack a problem? Better yet, when was the last time you did that for a class project? Seemingly, our education today has diverged from attacking cases to memorizing books. To talk more about some of these ideas is the Assistant Dean of the new School of Design and Creative technologies, Doreen Lorenzo. Doreen Lorenzo is a successful leader of global creative firms who advised Fortune 100 companies on design and innovation for decades. In March 2016, she was appointed as the Director of the Center for Integrated Design, in September 2017 she was promoted to Assistant Dean of the new School of Design and Creative Technologies.

From 2013 to 2015, Doreen was president of Quirky. Prior, she worked at frog design for 16 years, including seven years as president. While president, she drove strategy, oversaw worldwide operations and delivery, and led the iconic firm to record growth.

[YourFriendlyInsuranceAdjuster]

Design Thinking topic starts at 10:21, for anyone who needs that time stamp

[MikeJones-ppxf]

9 minutes in and still waiting for anything about Design Thinking.

[YTNarsi]

This is more of what happens at UT studying or teaching Design Thinking.. pl adjust title accordingly... not a talk on Design thinking itself

[blesstribal]

thanks for the comment. I need not go through the pains f watching it to end.

[JustinDonovanDuncan]

The decision to randomly select 20-odd students from 100-odd and give them a life changing, career-setting opportunity seems much like gatekeeping. All of the students in that class should have had an opportunity to go through the design camp. As educators, it's important to recognise that we hold the switch in our hands that either dims a student's light or causes it to shine brightly.

[petepittsburgh]

Please change the title, a person would expect to learn about what design thinking is. This is about the experience of teaching design thinking

[mravindraa]

Think I saw her in "The Incredibles" movie by Pixar - yeah the one who designs gadgets for super heroes..!

[williamofy]

NOTHING about Design thinking...do not waste your time watching it's about TEACHING it...

[johnswanson]

Bad depiction of a design thinking. As it's not about thinking, more about 'fantasic designers'. No critical thinking was explained

[jackwstamps]

She has no idea. She routinely asked faculty at UT to be patient with her as she was "learning how academia works". She has been given extraordinary power by a university to oversee a School within the College of Fine Arts but that wasn't enough for her. She dictates curricula to faculty, a huge conflict of interest. And she does so despite having never taught a class. Doreen Lorenzo represents an academia in decline, scrambling for footing in a rapidly evolving world of knowledge. Lorenzo is not even a designer. That explains why, in addition to being vague on the topic of the multidisciplinary, she speaks in broad-stroke platitudes and never ever really says anything new or fresh.

[sarahwood]

How exactly do you teach empathy? This ladies logic seems a bit backwards.

[balasubramanis]

For heaven's sake, have some clarity about the topic

[POLOSANCHEZC]

"We are not rewarded by the cross-collaboration" Certainly, we are rather punished for doing that.
Maybe the world needs to be multidisciplinary, but it is not really compliant with that.

[scottybb]

Jumped out after 8 minutes - nothing helpful here - mostly self-promotion.

[ua_beauty_lilia]

The title is not appropriate;) “Teaching methods”

[samiti]

humm this was disappointing, 10 min into it and all I got was the usual bla bla bla