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"What I have come to realise over the last few years is that too many people are trying their best to please the client over the visitor. The client is not the primary aim, the visitor is."

Andy Budd: "In short, we need educators who are leaders rather than followers. A great example of this are Web Standardistas Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson. These guys lecture on interaction design at the University of Ulster in Belfast. As well as writing a best selling book on standards based design they speak at conferences, organise community events and generally act as part of the glue that keeps our web community together."

Andy Budd: "The UK has some of the top fashion schools in the world, producing graduates of outstanding calibre. We’ve got graphic design schools staffed by some of the top names in the industry, and product design schools creating our next generation of innovators. So why don’t we seem able to do the same for the world of interaction design?"

"The Type and Media masters program has a long history at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague. Currently, the ten-month course is divided into two distinct parts, and limited to eleven students a year. The first five months comprise eight different weekly classes that expose students to numerous fundamental aspects of the type design process. The second half of the course is focused mainly on the development of individual final projects."

Last month, students in Jason Santa Maria’s Communicating Design class (School of Visual Arts — MFA in Interaction Design) were assigned the task of designing their own local currency. Inspired by Ithaca Hours and BerkShares, students pulled a neighborhood out of a hat, and were asked to research their neighborhood to determine what characteristics should be represented on its currency.

Our curly headed friend Malcom Gladwell makes a lot of sense. Aspiring journalists shouldn't apply to Journalism schools. Instead they should enroll on courses that will give them a solid grounding in what it is they want to write about (ie: Economics). This will provide them with the knowledge needed to write enthralling articles.