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For the first postcard, participants were asked to recall an experience they had previously engaged in and consider it through the lens of a design process — anything from a craft, to a project, to a daily activity. Participants then made a retrospective capture postcard representing that design process.
For the second postcard, participants used the Design Signatures app to capture their design process during an activity of their choice in real time. They analyzed the data they collected and made a postcard visualizing their personal design signature — the patterns and behaviors that characterize how they design.
For this postcard, participants selected a design process model from the Dubberly Compendium or other models discussed in class, and analyzed their design data through the lens of the chosen model. The postcard showed how their process mapped to, departed from, or was illuminated by that model.
For the Resilience Mapping One postcard, participants mapped a resilience framework — drawn from the readings and salon presentations — onto their own life or design practice, and made a postcard that visualized that mapping.
For this postcard, participants drew inspiration from the Good Designers Do X activity and questionnaire. They depicted either an abstract design process or a concrete new or past process that reflected what they believed good designers do and how that connected to their own practice.
For this postcard, participants developed a design awareness question — a question that helps them be more intentional about their design process — and aligned the question with a design activity, a method for capturing data, and a representation.
For the Resilience Mapping Two postcard, participants returned to the resilience-mapping exercise with deeper context — the art they had identified, the second Resilience Salon, and the Good Designers Do X deck — and made a second mapping that built on the first.
For this postcard, participants created an original representation of the connection between resilience and design as they understood it after the synthesis weeks — drawing on the GDDX cards, the resilience frameworks, and their own compilation of postcards.
For the final postcard, participants represented their aspirational resilient design signature — a vision of the design process they aspire to. Drawing on every postcard and every class exercise from the quarter, they made a postcard they could revisit in the future, paired with a written design rationale and class reflection.
