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Principle 6: Build to think & learn by doing

Powerful thinking, learning and alignment happens when we make abstract ideas tangible, experiment and iterate. “Prototyping is the conversation you have with your ideas.” — Tom Wujec Prototyping makes an envisioned concept or solution tangible before forgoing multiple rounds of testing and iterations. Iterative prototyping is essential in the design…

Prototyping

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Principle 6: Build to think & learn by doing
Principle 6: Build to think & learn by doing
Prototyping

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Dec 1, 2021

Introducing Mi:Voice

Co-creation is a phenomenon that integrates services users in each stage of the design process, to ensure we are solving the right problem for our users and creating meaningful solutions to this problem. Co-creation in higher education ensures that each individual within the Higher Education community has a voice and…

Codesign

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Introducing Mi:Voice
Introducing Mi:Voice
Codesign

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Oct 11, 2021

The post-Covid Institutional OS Canvas

The Higher Education Institution can be likened to a large cruise liner sailing unexpectedly in turbulent waters. In March 2020, a storm like no other hit. …

Design

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The post-Covid Institutional OS Canvas
The post-Covid Institutional OS Canvas
Design

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Oct 1, 2021

6 Tips for designing a valuable, meaningful and memorable academic year.

As the new academic year begins, and we begin to return to campus life after 18 months, the beginning of semester one will bring about several changes for many and the start of new beginnings for others. Inspired by Dave Evans’s book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived…

Design

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6 Tips for designing a valuable, meaningful and memorable academic year.
6 Tips for designing a valuable, meaningful and memorable academic year.
Design

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Jul 27, 2021

Thrown in the Deep End

In March 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic has uprooted and renegotiated the rules of Higher Education. Students and staff from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the globe were forced to continue their teaching and learning in a remote fashion. Whilst stop-gap solutions ensured that teaching could continue in a virtual capacity…

Higher Education

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Thrown in the Deep End
Thrown in the Deep End
Higher Education

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·Jul 23, 2021

The Mi:Lab Toolkit: Forces of Progress

The Maynooth University Innovation Lab (Mi:Lab) takes a Human-Centred design approach to explore and tackle challenges within the Higher Education system. In a series of Mi:Lab blogposts, we will explore some of the key tools we employ in our projects at Mi:Lab. …

Human Centered Design

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The Mi:Lab Toolkit: Forces of Progress
The Mi:Lab Toolkit: Forces of Progress
Human Centered Design

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·Jul 13, 2021

Designing for Amplified Needs: A Case Study with Maynooth Access Programme (MAP)

In 2018, The Maynooth Access Office partnered with Department of Design Innovation (DDI) in Maynooth University to examine how design could be used to re-imagine the transition to Higher Education for students from under-represented groups (Vaugh et al, 2018). To design a programme that would maintain the standard and success…

Milab

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Designing for Amplified Needs: A Case Study with Maynooth Access Programme (MAP)
Designing for Amplified Needs: A Case Study with Maynooth Access Programme (MAP)
Milab

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·Jul 6, 2021

Designing for Amplified Needs

“If you make something work for someone for whom it currently works least, it works better for everyone” (Starr, 2021). In 1972, American Computer Scientist, Vincent Cerf, created the first email protocol. He wanted to be able to communicate with his deaf wife Sigrid whilst he was at work. Cerf’s…

Milab

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Designing for Amplified Needs
Designing for Amplified Needs
Milab

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·Jun 29, 2021

A Tactile Approach in Online Learning

Dr Aldo Valencia | Design Researcher and Brain Enthusiast | Assistant lecturer at the Design Innovation department, member of Mi:Lab linkedin.com/in/aldo-valencia-57a6a598 Two years ago, a world interacting exclusively through screens might have been seen as dystopian. Who would have thought that peoples’ proximity would cause some to get anxious? There…

Design

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A Tactile Approach in Online Learning
A Tactile Approach in Online Learning
Design

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·Jun 18, 2021

Principle 8: Communicate creatively to inspire action

Build a shared vision & inspire action by communicating simply, creatively & with empathy. “Design envisions the future by taking a felt need or problem or what is a vague and often abstract idea and making it tangible — making it exist in the world so that various stakeholders in…

Communication

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Principle 8: Communicate creatively to inspire action
Principle 8: Communicate creatively to inspire action
Communication

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