Muqeem Khan received his Masters of Arts in Industrial Design in 1996 with specialization in computer graphics and animation from Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design (ACCAD) and Department of Industrial, Interior, and Visual Communication at Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio. He also obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design from the same university in 1994.
His research interests include teaching methodologies, collaborative activity across multiple disciplines and computer graphic tools for artists and designers. He is currently working as assistant professor of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. His motion picture credits, as a visual effect artist with Walt Disney and Square USA, are Deep Rising, George of the Jungle, Flubber, Armageddon and Final Fantasy.

Designers in the past decade were conceptualists, strategists and aesthetes.
Now, there is a new slot awaits them to be occupied and this should be “digital intuitivists”. A designer’s role for our desires and needs have changed from a generalist to an expert because of the fast evolving proficiencies of theory, practice and education. A future designer will be using design as a medium of art. It will be mandatory for a successful designer to be an artist in order to elevate emotional needs of a targeted audience. One can argue that the term “designer” will still be there in our future. Designers in our coming future might not even mention technology or the nature of technological existence in their products or processes.
For a future designer, technology will be a transparent variable, very similar to seamless VFX elements for the motion picture audience. This presentation by Muqeem Khan shows how technology embraces a contextual adjective and artistic thinking in academic circles as well as workplaces.
The presentation also highlights the pedagogical concerns of design education, from the dichotomies between intuitive and pragmatic learning for future designers. Muqeem Khan thinks that if someone takeout the melodic, rhythmic, poetic, artistic, and fluidic elements from design processes, there will be only one thing left and which is “phoke”, (“phoke” in Urdu or Hindi language means what remains of the pulp when the juice has been completely extracted from it).
This non-colorful genre of thinking may not be helpful in constructing the mind of a successful future designer.
It will, in fact, injure the valuable curious mind.