Schools teach success in controlled environments. Careers are built on chaos, rejection, and impossible clients. Destruction labs bridge the gap by training students to function when everything goes wrong: the one skill education forgot to teach.

Portfolios measure the opportunities you've been given, not your design potential. Here's what actually matters when execution becomes trivial and why the messiest parts of your process are now more valuable than your polished case studies.

"AI is just another tool" represents perhaps the most dangerous misstep design education could make right now and reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of both what AI does and what design education has actually been doing all along.

AI is churning out slick, soulless work that looks like yours (and mine), and it's already boring everyone to tears. Here's how to build the creative literacy that actually matters.

AI tools produce polished outputs that look professional but often lack substance, and design education is at risk of mistaking shine for skill. Here's a framework for teaching students to see past the gloss.

AI tools are training students to be obedient little prompt-writers instead of curious thinkers, and education's obsession with tidy answers is making it worse. Here's how to teach students to make a proper mess of things again.

Education has become so fixated on outcomes and efficiency. A case for bringing delight back into the classroom before we bore an entire generation to death.