Welcome to Design Edu Today, the bi-weekly podcast series discussing the necessary competencies to be a successful designer in a contemporary, screen-based interactive world.

Launched in June 2015, the Design Edu Today podcast is a bi-weekly conversation with design professionals defining interactive design best practices for classroom instruction. Guests are chosen based on their contributions—whether technical or theoretical—and leadership within the interactive design field.

The podcast’s initial goal was to discover the balance between instructing visual principles for digital design, such as flexible grids, screen-based typography, iconography, and instructing a core medium of digital design: HTML, CSS and Javascript. Since the launch, the scope of the podcast has grown to include broader research topics that include the overview of the entire process of interactive design, from the initial client meeting to final site launch.

  • Episode 64

    The Differences Between Skinning and Designing with Heather Quinn

  • Episode 63

    Lessons Learned from 200 Design Interviews with Dave Senior

  • 2018 Listener Survey

  • Episode 62

    Graphic Design Student and Graphic Design Professional Q&A Discussion

  • Episode 61

    Lessons Learned Hosting Revision Path from Diversity to Design with Maurice Cherry

  • May 21–22, 2018

    UCDA Design Education Summit: Good Design Works

  • Episodes 01–64

    Episode Archives

Design Edu Today host Gary Rozanc is an associate professor of graphic design at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Gary received his BA in graphic design from Cleveland State University and his MFA in Visual Communications from the University of Arizona.

Design Edu Today would like to thank AIGA, the professional association for design and the AIGA Design Educators Community for their generous support of my early research that lead to this podcast series. I also want to thank the Design Edu Today web hosting sponsor Digital Ocean and CDN sponsor Fastly for making the hosting and distribution of these podcasts possible.

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