Toasting Design SoMIAE

What is the best way to crack an egg? Did you answer with a multi million rand machine that automates the entire process? Well that is conincidentally what we did too... only because I found a video showing it. You did it for entirely different reasons and I am left to assume that it was for the wrong reason. Unless you also saw the same video. In which case, stop plagiarising other peoples ideas.



Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 25th April 2024

Design problems end up being quite the major point in these topics. Mostly because it is something that a lot of students of design end up struggling the most. We tackle these as often as we do to show that they don't need to be so complicated or so difficult.



Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 22 March 2024

Like one giant metaphor that is also a direct lesson in and of itself we discuss how we would improve productivity if told to do so.



Hosted by M. Boer and S.Schekman on 22 March 2024

By bad I mean non-sensical, illogical, uncompromisingly beligerant in following the wrong path. These are the users that don't use your design in the way you intended. How much do we need to cater for such persons in a design? Can we just ignore them? Should we?

Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 22nd Feb 2024

This episode was initially intended to follow a different topic but, as usually happens, a more interesting topic and set of ideas came forward as we were talking. So it's something to do with sport, something to do with design and as always coming up with different ways of tackling it



Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 22nd Feb 2024

When does one scale something in design? The term is misleading and often brings to mind the types of activities or tasks that are not applicable in design. Scaling, nevertheless, happens often and in some ways is essential.



Hosted by M.Boer and S.Schekman on 17 Jan 2024