Garreth Heidt

So I Started a Newsletter

The start of something (else) good…

Lightning in a Bottle…Twice: The Joy of Learning

This is the kind of experience that shifts the mind utterly, that reveals something we’ve hidden from students behind tests, and rules, and most of all, grades.

This is the Joy of Learning embodied.

Design Build Challenge: Weltanschauung–Design as World View

I still believe Design Thinking can help save the world.

Apparently my students have come to think so, too.

Build Design Challenge: Testing–“A Little Help Here?”

Life can go by fast, but living in the moment with people you genuinely enjoy being around can help slow things down.

Design Build Challenge: Day 8–Tightening up and Getting Loose

With Friday presentations at Fluxspace coming up, designers are revisiting clients, getting on the fly feedback, and working on pitch decdks.

Build Design Challenge: Day 7 Prototyping–Fail early, Fail Often

Gentrification was a word I have never heard of until this class, it means that wealthier individuals change poorer areas in many ways. You would think that it is good but that makes everything more expensive, to wealthy people it isn’t a problem but to those less fortunate it forces them to move. With this information provided by builduniversity.org, we began creating a prototype.

Why Design?

Originally posted on Only Connect:
I’ve written about this before, but the other day, as I was saying goodbye to my Design-Lab students, I was overcome with the feeling that what I was doing in that class was so right. I mean this in a way that’s more like an old baseball glove than a mere,…

Design Build Challenge Day 6: Ideate to Prototype

Passionately working is so different from working with the sole purpose of finishing. Often, we as busy humans are subjected to cram tasks into our day, instead of being truly infatuated with what we are doing. I sincerely hope I commit my mind to openly creating throughout the duration of this class, but also throughout my life.