Sandy Harris

Sandy Harris brings experience in UX/UI design, digital arts, and design education to Pixels & Priorities. Across two conversations with Metsy Rose, J Schuh, and fellow educator Lisa Gabriel, Sandy explores what emerging and experienced design professionals need to keep learning as technology rapidly changes the tools, expectations, and realities of creative work.

The conversations examine an important distinction: having access to information is not the same as developing a skill. Learning design requires practice, experimentation, feedback, collaboration, and sometimes the productive friction that comes from working with other people. As AI makes it easier to generate ideas and outputs, those experiences can become even more important.

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Sandy Harris, MFA, MBA, is an Arts and Humanities faculty member at Dallas College’s Brookhaven campus whose work includes UX/UI and design education.

Her approach to design education emphasizes more than learning software or following a process. Developing as a designer also means learning how to communicate, collaborate, give and receive feedback, work through ambiguity, and understand the people behind the experiences being created.

Those skills take on new importance as AI becomes woven into education and professional design workflows. Students can access information, generate concepts, and produce work faster than ever, but speed and access do not automatically create understanding. Designers still need opportunities to practice their craft, make decisions, encounter unexpected problems, and learn how their choices affect other humans.

In her conversations on Pixels & Priorities, Sandy joins Lisa Gabriel, Metsy Rose, and J Schuh to explore what design education should look like amid constant technological change. They discuss the value of live and in-person learning, the importance of experiencing real human interaction, the challenge of staying professionally relevant, and what educators are seeing as a new generation learns to work alongside AI.

For UX/UI designers, product professionals, educators, students, and anyone navigating a rapidly changing creative career, Sandy’s perspective reinforces a deceptively simple idea: tools can accelerate the work, but becoming a thoughtful professional still requires doing the work with other people.

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