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- johnnnnyh
Considering doing one - anybody been down that route and care to share experience?
- johnnnnyh0
Thanks ^
- Cooset
- LOLiCanHasQBN
- so it was really about a pretty huge dick?oey
- raf0
Looking for brains on the qoob, huh? You're not very smart, are you?...
- akrok0
what are you getting a phd for? want to work as a teacher?
- drgz0
PhD in design? a stamp of someone who never designed anything in his life
- TheBlueOne0
PhD in _______? a stamp of someone who never ________ anything in his life.
The only thing that really nullifies that is filling that space with astro, nuclear or subatomic physics
- drgz0
i dont think design is anywhere near comparable to science.
What do you judge a good designer by? -- and an astrophysicist?
If you do not understand why uneducated designers are possible (vs uneducated astrophysicists), what can be learned and what is talent, and why the expression "high academic level of my designs" is ridiculous, you are a clinical idiot- who are you talking to?TheBlueOne
- clinical idiot: nice turn of phraseTheRapture
- johnnnnyh0
Not the responses I expected!
Anti - academic stance I can understand but I wonder how that sits with a more professional image of "creative people". I wonder if you need to have academic study of a subject going on in order to boost the professional practice's status. Not saying you need to do it to be any good, just saying someone should be doing it so that the industry gains a degree of respectability.
You can't do a PhD in taxi driving can you? So being able to gain a PhD in an area may boost it's standing with everyone even those who don't go to university.
Would be doing a design based course anyway; and yes thinking about teaching.
- jetSkii0
those who can't do... teach
- flawed logicset
- how so?jetSkii
- Not possible to teach what you don't know...set
- A lot of respected designers also teach these daysGlitterati_Duane
- johnnnnyh0
and those who can't teach . . . teach PE!
Heard it all before. . .
- Amicus0
is this your site?
- exador10
my brother in law has his PhD and is a professor now....
seems like it was a good career move for him....
He's a scientist and studies stuff in the realm of natural sciences, forestry, forest fires, climate etc....it's actually pretty interesting....we were all really proud of him when he got his PhD.....was a pretty big moment for the whole family....
- rson0
PhD in what?
- lowimpakt0
You can do a PhD in anything you want and the process of doing a PhD is best described as a training programme for researchers. i.e. can you develop, manage and deliver a large programme of research
It may be more relevant these days where designers are playing more strategic roles in businesses and other organisations.
The biggest problem with designers moving into more strategic spaces is a lack of understanding of the context (naivety, poor transferable skills, lack of strategic insight) and this can be gained through lots of experience or learning/research.
Another relevance is in design led innovation where you can have designers doing some really progressive research around the application of new materials, the transfer of design process to new contexts, exploration of sustainability issues etc.
- vitamins0
I have a PhD in life. Ask me anything you want.
- formed0
You better evaluate what it is you hope to get from it. As noted, usually research is the path (this coming from an architecture background).
In architecture, those that go on to Phd's will become professors, writers, etc., but not practice (not usually). 7 years (for me) of straight arch ed was enough!
Design, however, offers something unique (although it could be argued that some buildings, like Gehry's Bilbao, make huge economic and social impacts) - it can be translated into dollars. This, to me, is what has become more and more interesting.
A Ferrari always created a lust factor, but no one could afford one. But now we have iPhones, iPads and other 'design' oriented products. Without the design, both in industrial design and functionality, the product would be nothing.
But all this is difficult to quantify. What is sexy? You can research it to death, but at the end of the day it is more of a combination of vision, talent and execution.
If you could, successful, research and develop ways to duplicate this you'd be something.
Get an MBA at the same time, just to be sure ;-)
- monkeyshine0
if you're getting a PhD in user research...woo, good for you; you'll make a ton of money. PhD in creative design? There's definitely room in our field for more critical thinking and writing/research but those spots are currently taken by design iconoclasts who have already made a name for themselves in design.
- ftravieso0
So many witty comedians in this post I can barely see anyone interested in thinking design-wise, like someone interested in a PhD.
- DoktorDavid0
And here you go... http://www.worryfreedegree.com
More seriously; in what field? And after spending 3-4 years or longer, what's the end game?