The training of industrial or product designers in Chile is approached with a strong heritage of the Bauhaus School that seeks, through experience and from a projective and reflective perspective, a more direct and less theoretical approach to reality. For this reason, it uses project-based learning as a training strategy, facilitating learning in the act of doing. On the other hand, in order to obtain the instances and depth of reflection required for a given project, the Industrial Design school of the Universidad del Bio-Bio, as well as others in the country, applies observation as a transversal method in all the workshops Observation, recognized as a legacy of scientific research, takes on another dimension in design when approached from the standpoint of phenomenology, since phenomenological observation does not place limits between the observing subject and that which is observed. This allows the designer to creatively scrutinize the world through his life experience, so as to understand the relationships and interactions between individuals, objects and environment. However, at present the value embodied in observation does not seem to fit with the technological overconsumption and its need for immediacy, neither with its learning times nor its analogical expression. Thus, its methodology is falling into disuse or is being misunderstood by the new generations, and it is therefore pertinent to ask about its validity and relevance. In short, does it need to be evaluated to continue with its teaching? or should it be simply abandoned as an archaic and extemporaneous method.