Design Survivor Beth Altringer Eagle
Cultivating Creative Capacity Within Constraints
10 weeks · 7 challenges · portfolio by the end
Individual 01 M 3/30 · W 4/1 Dear Data, Design Vision
Theory
Creativity, data humanism, and visual restraint.
Cases
Hand-drawn data as a design medium.
Design Challenge
See data in everything — your own tastes made visible.
Dyads 02 M 4/6 · W 4/8 An Iconic Opening
Theory
Analogy and experience design.
Cases
How iconic openings are designed.
Design Challenge
Redesign how something begins.
Dyads 03 M 4/13 · W 4/15 The 30-Year Object
Theory
Constraints, durability, and repair.
Cases
Why some things last and others don’t.
Design Challenge
Design something worth keeping for 30 years.
Dyads 04 M 4/20 · W 4/22 Everything Is a World
Theory
The art of interviewing.
Cases
Going deep into mundane worlds.
Design Challenge
Interview someone inside a rabbit hole.
Dyads 05 M 4/27 · W 4/29 Invisible Senses
Theory
Multisensory design and reframing.
Cases
Designing beyond what eyes can see.
Design Challenge
Design a multi-sensory experience.
Individual 06 M 5/4 · W 5/6 Curating & Taste
Theory
Curation as self-knowledge.
Cases
Your own work as data about your design identity.
Design Challenge
What do your choices reveal about you?
Dyads 07 M 5/11 · W 5/13 Get Out of Your Head
Theory
Collective intelligence and creative disagreement.
Cases
How teams and tools make designers smarter.
Design Challenge
Design useful friction — with AI as a disagreeable partner.
Dyads 08 M 5/18 · W 5/20 Ugly Darlings
Theory
Iteration, prototyping, and productive failure.
Cases
Why the first version is never the best one.
Design Challenge
Take something you’ve made and make it better.
Dyads 09 M 5/25 · W 5/27 Less But Better
Theory
Reflection, polish, and storytelling.
Cases
The discipline of removing what doesn’t belong.
Design Challenge
Polish and present your strongest work.
Individual 10 M 6/1 · W 6/3 Who Are You Now?
Theory
Taste, point of view, and creative identity.
Cases
How designers discover who they are.
Design Challenge
Build a portfolio that shows who you are now.