This class is for you who considers to start a career as an UX Designer. But even if you already work in the field of UX/UI design the presented thought models in this class will bring you new perspectives and inspiration for your daily challenges. The world is changing in an ever faster pace due to digitalisation and globalisation. This leads to friction in our social and political landscapes.
The digital age brings great wealth, freedom and power to millions of people - but not yet in an evenly distributed fashion.
The underlying premise of this class is that a UX Designer’s main purpose is to fix that distribution problem by designing products and services that will be used by more people sooner.
To be able to do so a UX Designer has to gain a deep understanding of how digitalisation impacts our societies so you can make more enlightened decisions for creating digital tools and services that will help to solve our global grand challenges. We chose to call this type of UX Designer an exponentially minded one.
With this Hyper Island class you will learn to understand:
- How digital driven networks challenge hierarchical power structures.
- How to predict the exponential development of digital technologies.
- How to implement innovation initiatives in organizations.
- Why the ability to act even though the outcome is unclear is a scarcely available skillset.
Knowledge is not enough to become an exponentially minded user experience designer. It requires serious effort and consistency in you own journey of experimentation and reflection.
To get started and to map out your own learning journey do the following:
- Watch all videos of this class.
- Print out the attached planning tool.
- Take your time and think of the questions.
- Fill in your answers.
- Take a picture of the map and upload it here in the project section.
