Design Survivor Beth Altringer Eagle
Cultivating Creative Capacity Within Constraints
10 weeks · 7 challenges · portfolio by the end
01 Dear Data, Design Vision Self-knowledge through data. Instinct vs. evidence. Hand-drawn visualization. Amabile's three components of creativity. Individual 02 An Iconic Opening Experience journeys. Anticipation, sequence, sensory arc. Interviewing to understand. Designing for someone else. Dyads 03 The Heirloom Longevity as a design decision. Constraints increase creativity. Repair, patina, emotional durability. Dyads 04 Everything Is a World Interviewing as a design skill. Listening, not leading. Finding the rabbit hole. Audio as material. Dyads 05 Invisible Senses Multi-sensory design. Cross-modal congruency. Audio as invisible sense. Designing beyond vision. Dyads 06 Curating & Taste POV collection. Curation as self-knowledge. Iterating on earlier work. V1 vs. V2. Individual 07 Get Out of Your Head Collective intelligence. Structured disagreement. AI as creative friction. Revisit your Week 4 interviewee. Dyads 08 The Ugly Baby Iteration is not fixing. Radical rethinking. Pixar rewrites. Dyson's 5,127 prototypes. Dyads 09 Less But Better Storytelling as design. Reflection-in-action. Presentation craft. Less but better. Dyads 10 Who Are You Now? Creative identity. Portfolio as curated declaration. POV statement. Earning creative freedom. Individual