Are Design Schools Failing Students?

The short answer is yes. However, the reasoning behind that yes is more nuanced. From my personal experience, design school is failing to output confident decisions makers. Design school exhibition at my alma mater. (photo 2016) It should turn out designers, regardless of title, who can go into any area of the design field and trust their decisions will improve the lives of the end-user. When a designer can’t confidently prove how their design decisions will better people’s lives, those final...