The deadline for Type West is extended to November 14! If you want to learn type design in a deep way without leaving your current job, there’s no better way to do it. https://letterformarchive.org/education/
#DesignEducation
🙌 Join us this week at Transform 2025 in Trier! We're reflecting on 4 years of the https://gestaltung.ai/en #KITeGG research project, on teaching #AI, #Design, #Art, in context of #DesignEducation and #Society.
👉 24th - 27th September
https://kind-lab.de/transform2025/
(Registration and participation is free!)
Excited to share my very first blog post on Designing for Humans! 🎉
This intro dives into what UX design is, and how it’s about creating meaningful, human-centered experiences.
Click here 👉 https://designingforhumans311.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/an-introduction-to-designing-for-humans/
#com311 #UXDesign #UX #blog #designingforhumans #userexperiencedesign #HumanCenteredDesign #DesignThinking #ProductDesign #DigitalDesign #UXCommunity #UXStudent #DesignStudent #LearningUX #UXJourney #FromStudentToDesigner #DesignEducation
Explore the World of #Design! Dive into our work, gain fresh insights from our transformative workshops, get inspired by 100+ episodes of #designeducation talks. It’s all here, waiting for you. Your next #creative breakthrough starts now—join us! https://linktr.ee/thenewartschool
Do you love #typography and the international type community? Are you kind, open-minded, and generous of spirit? Do you have time, energy, and resources to share? Do you enjoy collaboration, camaraderie, and teamwork?
If you said yes to these questions, we could do good things together. Please consider running for a seat on the ATypI Board of Directors. Nomination deadline is August 30, 2025.
https://atypi.org/2025/08/14/board-nominations-open-seven-seats-available/
#volunteerism #typedesign #nonprofitboards #USnonprofits #designeducation
Thinking back to my last session with design students — the moment when someone realizes that careers aren’t a straight line but a collection of moments, choices, and experiments.
In a world of changing industries, that flexibility is a design skill in itself.
#DesignEducation #UXDesign #CareerPaths #Typography #DesignThinking #EmergingScholars
Reading University Announcement
Grateful to be invited by the University of Reading to contribute to their design programme this fall.
I’ll be:
– Sharing select online content in advance with students
– Giving a talk on the future state of the design industry, especially for typography-minded designers
– Joining a hybrid panel discussion on careers
– Offering one-to-one feedback sessions on portfolios and interview prep
Reading has such a strong legacy in typography — and I’m glad to help today’s students find their voice in the evolving industry.
Thanks to Keith for the nudge, and to the Reading team for the warm welcome.
#typography #designeducation #futureofdesign #uxnow #uniqueways
Two years ago, I spoke at the Sorbonne about typography and power.
This September, I return — not with answers, but with tension.
Tension between digital tools and physical presence. Between frictionless systems and what it means to feel.
I’ll be speaking about UX Now — a framework born from asking how design education can go tactile again.
Talk drops in September. Stay tuned.
#Sorbonne #UXNow #DesignEducation #TactileUX #ThomasGirard #ReturnToSorbonne
“Why I submitted UX Now to SXSW”
SXSW EDU received over 1,400 proposals this year.
Mine was one of them — UX Now: Tactile Innovation in a Digital World.
It’s about restoring the physical in a time of hyper-digital tools.
It’s about teaching design that feels.
If that resonates, I’d be honoured if you’d vote.
🔷 Vote here → https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-edu/page/community-voting/session/1750811215511001J5Ey
We don’t need more tools — we need more touch.
That’s what led me to create UX Now: a framework that reintroduces analog thinking into digital environments.
Whether it’s prototyping with pen and paper or designing for the senses, UX Now is an invitation to slow down and feel more.
The full white paper is now public, remixable, and versioned on GitHub.
🧠 UX Now: Tactile Innovation in a Digital World
https://github.com/onthomasgit/UX-Now-Framework
What ties together TEDx, Sorbonne, UX frameworks, and 250 podcast episodes?
This new article brings my work into one place—on teaching, speaking, writing, and how tactile design still matters.
Read it here → https://medium.com/@thomas_10751/thomas-girard-ux-educator-podcaster-author-speaker-9f08060ed219
The Field Guide now includes insights from the UX Now framework — available on Gumroad for $12.
A compact, tactile take on modern UX thinking.
🛒 https://gumroad.com/products/thauip/
#UXNow #FieldGuide #DesignEducation
Returning to the Sorbonne this fall.
This time, with new work from the UX Now framework — exploring analog methods in a digital world.
The talk drops September 2025.
At the heart of UX Now is a belief that tactile methods aren’t nostalgic — they’re essential.
Here’s how I’ve been teaching and applying this idea across classrooms, studios, and stages:
Curious where this goes next? I return to the Sorbonne this fall with a new talk on this very topic.
Design isn’t neutral — it’s decisive.
On Brave UX, we talked about something subtle but critical: how poor typography in election ballots can lead to real-world confusion.
This clip from the episode has been quietly resonating — thanks to Brendan Jarvis for surfacing this moment.
🎧 Full episode here → https://youtu.be/1WcXHhvMhls?si=v6mzbU2sdzZ3_JoX
#ElectionDesign #TypographyMatters #UXNow #DesignEducation #BraveUX #DesignJustice #Sorbonne
Three clips from my Brave UX interview are now up on TikTok 🎬
Grateful to Brendan Jarvis and the Brave UX team for amplifying this conversation across platforms.
🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/1WcXHhvMhls
📱 TikTok highlights: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMS779k6c/
Three clips from my Brave UX interview are now up on TikTok 🎬
Grateful to Brendan Jarvis and the Brave UX team for amplifying this conversation across platforms.
🎧 Full episode: https://youtu.be/1WcXHhvMhls
📱 TikTok highlights: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMS779k6c/
Design isn’t just how things look — it’s how they work.
It’s the perfect balance of logic and creativity, precision and emotion.
If you feel the pull between science and art… maybe design is your true path.
👉 Start your journey at idesigncourse.com
#DesignThinking #CreativeMindset #LearnDesign #iDesignCourse #ArtMeetsScience #VisualCommunication #DesignEducation #CreativeJourney #ScienceMeetsArt #DesignInspiration
Introducing Representing! "Drawings, trademarks, custom fonts, patterns and symbolic images can be used to embody people, places, products, services and ideas." Spanning 27,000 years, this chapter documents the use of visual signs depicting individuals, groups, organizations, countries, and concepts.
#designhistory #graphicdesignhistory #mhogd7ed #graphicdesign #bookdesign #designeducation
Today, my advanced UX students are sharing their final presentations — all grounded in the UX Now framework and our guiding theme: Tactile Innovation in a Digital World.
Want to learn more? Check out the white paper: 👉 https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/0725-whitepaper-uniquewaysofprototypinganduxnow-pdf/281380428
#UXNow #TactileInnovation #UXDesign #Prototyping #designeducation
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