Conference paper
Designers’ identity: skills' self-perception and expectation in design students
Designers’ Professional Identity (DPI) combines social- and self-perceptive awareness through which one is able to identify as a designer. However, self-perception can be different from the expectations associated with an ideal designer, especially during education. Thus, this paper reports a survey where self-perceived design skills and expectation are compared at different points in a design education.
Findings indicate that changes in mindset modify the alignment between self-perception and expectations, which provides implications for education and for a broader understanding of DPI.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Design Society |
Year: | 2018 |
Pages: | 2045-2054 |
Proceedings: | DESIGN2018 - 15th International Design ConferenceInternational Design Conference |
ISBN: | 9537738590 and 9789537738594 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.21278/idc.2018.0116 |
ORCIDs: | Kunrath, Kamila , Cash, Philip and Li-Ying, Jason |