By Raghvendra Singh · Original personal-site article. Read the original ↗
Studio traditions are lagging industry
Design education still rewards polish. Industry now asks for systems, AI literacy, and the ability to defend a decision under constraint. The classroom has to catch up without becoming a tool tutorial.
The critique is the curriculum
Each module is a sprint. Deliverables are held to a production bar. Students learn to narrate tradeoffs: what they cut, what they kept, and what evidence moved the call.
Framework
Visible Learning Loop
Students improve faster when they can explain why they made a choice.
Sprint
A module with a production bar, not a tool tutorial.
Make
Deliver the work under constraint.
Narrate
What they cut, what they kept, what evidence moved the call.
Critique
The critique is the curriculum.
Takeaway
Run the module as a sprint. Hold a production bar. Make the trade-off the thing students must say out loud.