2011internationalconference-speakers


CLAY SHIRKY
(@cshirky)
Opening Keynote
Associate Arts Professor
New York University

Clay Shirky is a provocative voice on all things Internet: social networks and media, economics and culture, connected communities and the open source movement. Shirky holds a joint appointment at New York University (NYU) as an associate arts professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program and as a distinguished writer in residence in the Journalism Department. He is also a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Prior to NYU, Shirky was a partner at The Accelerator Group, an investment firm focused on early-stage companies. His recent book, Cognitive Surplus, explores how social technologies and media are changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. Shirky speaks on emerging technologies at a variety of forums and organizations including TED Global, PC Forum, the Internet Society, the Department of Defense, the BBC, the Economist Group and several O’Reilly conferences. He has presented at events at companies including Microsoft, Apple and Deutsche Telecom.

 

ERIC ANDERSON
Licensed Profession Geophysicist
Independent Consultant

Eric E. Anderson is an independent consultant and a licensed professional geophysicist with over 20 years of experience servicing both government and Fortune 500 companies. He specializes in preparedness planning and the development of risk management strategies to facilitate regional resilience through disaster risk reduction. He has a master’s in geosciences from the University of South Carolina and a master’s in information technology from Virginia Tech. In addition, he has been a visiting scholar to Ǻlborg University, DK. His research interests include: the assessment of the vulnerability of communities, cities and regions and their critical life support infrastructure to disasters within the context of the globalization of people, information, markets and security; the simulation of complex maladaptive human-environmental systems capable of creating disastrous cascading effects over space and time and the design and use of Web-based collaborative spatial decision support system tools to prioritize risk management solutions for investment.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Designing Disaster-Resilient Communities

CHRISTOPHER ARNOLD, IDSA
Associate Professor
Auburn University

Having joined the faculty in 2003, Christopher Arnold is an associate professor with Auburn University’s Department of Industrial and Graphic Design. While teaching in the "foundations" studio sequence, he lectures at the undergraduate and graduate levels on subjects including design for systems and service as well as digital design and fabrication. Educated as an industrial designer with a graduate degree in community planning, Arnold’s professional experience spans a broad range of scales and contexts. His recent research and consulting activities have addressed the scaffolding of experience in human service systems with special emphasis on design for health and health care delivery environments. His other areas of interest include design for social impact and the application of designerly approaches in K-12 education.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
By and For the People: Design with the Community

RINAT ARUH, IDSA
Co-Founder
aruliden

Rinat Aruh, IDSA is the co-founder of aruliden, a New York City-based brand strategy and product design consultancy, founded by her and Johan Liden in 2006. Aruliden has been internationally recognized for its work with brands such as PUMA, Microsoft, Kiehl’s and Motorola. With her nontraditional approach to design and marketing, Aruh has led and collaborated on diverse projects for retail environments, mobile communications, automotive launches, consumer packaging as well as Internet startups. She holds a bachelor’s in business administration in marketing from Boston University.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
Bringing Design Thinking into 21st Century Education

STEVE BELLETIRE, IDSA
Professor, Industrial Design
Southern Illinois University – Carbondale

Steve Belletire spent 26 years in professional practice before his Southern Illinois University - Carbondale appointment in 1997. As a practitioner he helped design a wide range of commercial, industrial and consumer products. His research focuses on the integration of ecodesign into businesses, and he is engaged in consulting with various companies to achieve this goal.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Okala 2011: Building the Ecodesign Community

ALISTAIR BRAMLEY
Senior Industrial Designer
Smart Design

Alistair Bramley is a senior industrial designer at Smart Design where he works across categories to create solutions that make users and clients smile. He is inspired by how products and services can combine to form our understanding of the world and how design can intervene to make this better for everyone. Bramley holds multiple patents and design awards and recently exhibited at the St. Etienne Design Biennale. He is also a founding member of Smart Design’s Food Lab, which explores the larger cultural and societal aspects of food.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
The 5 x 5 x 5 Project by Smart Design’s Food Lab

JIM BUDD, IDSA
Chair
Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial Design

Jim Budd is the chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial Design. He has over 20 years design experience in business and industry before starting his teaching career. He has taught for the past 15 years at schools in the US and Canada, including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Technical University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Carleton University and the Emily Carr University of Art & Design. His research and teaching interests focus on a human-centered approach to industrial design with a specific focus on the integration of sensor-based technologies in the design development of intelligent smart products for everyday use. For much of his teaching career he has been involved in the development and implementation of new curriculum to address the impact of changes in technology both in the field and in the classroom.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Can Industrial Design Education Turn the Corner?

WILLIAM BULLOCK, FIDSA
Professor of Industrial Design
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

William Bullock, FIDSA is a professor of industrial design and is also affiliated with the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At ISTC he helps build the Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI), a consortium dedicated to the development and implementation of more sustainable systems for designing, producing and remanufacturing and recycling electronic devices. He developed the first course at the university on sustainable product design and recently collaborated with engineering colleagues and industry advisors in creating a new course on the topic of electronic waste (E-waste). He directs the annual International E-waste Design Competition that challenges students globally to create innovative uses with electronic waste. Bullock also directs the Product Innovation Research Laboratory (PIRL) that links education and design research in the classroom where advanced students from engineering, design and marketing collaborate to conduct product development studies for industry.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
E-Waste: An Industrial Designer’s Perspective

KAYNE BURK
(@MindSwarms)
President
MindSwarms

Kayne Burk is the president of MindSwarms, a disruptive research platform providing qualitative consumer feedback quickly and economically via webcam. As an innovator in digital market research, MindSwarms informs market leading design clients including Minimal’s Scott Wilson, Nike, Virgin, Threadless, Dell and Microsoft in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Before joining MindSwarms, Kayne led entrepreneurship efforts at IDEO as CEO of ShopWell, an incubated venture promoting healthy eating decisions. Drawing upon a background spanning marketing, design, and management, Kayne holds a unique perspective on the nascent digital research industry and it’s potential to empower those who create. Whether designing a product, service, or business, Kayne believes that digital research tools enable dynamic interactions with changing consumers, thereby allowing researchers to develop stronger points of view that lead to more successful outcomes.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Keynote Title:
How Consumers Have Reshaped Research Itself

MAX BURTON, IDSA
Executive Creative Director
frog

An executive creative director at frog, Max Burton’s career spans 22 years working in product design, interaction and experience design. Burton has focused much of his recent career on delivering new consumer products enabled by emerging technologies. He has a master’s in industrial design from the Royal College of Art in London and a bachelor’s in industrial design from Manchester Metropolitan University. Burton’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Design Museum in London, the Cooper Hewitt in New York and the Chicago Athenaeum. His work has received numerous IDEA design awards, and he holds 16 utility patents and over 30 design patents. He is a fellow of the Charted Society of Designers in the UK.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
The Future of Product Design in a Connected World

ANDREA CHEN
(@SENOinnovates)
Executive Director
SENO

Andrea Chen is the co-founder and executive director of Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans (SENO), an award-winning nonprofit that systematically cultivates bold and coordinated solutions to New Orleans’ most pressing social challenges by helping social entrepreneurs take their ideas from vision to reality. She graduated with honors from Stanford University, received a master’s in education from the University of New Orleans and Harvard Graduate School of Education and was trained in business at Dartmouth University’s Tuck School of Business. She was named 2009 New Orleans Gambit “40 Under 40” and 2010 City Business Top 50 “Women of the Year.” In addition, Mayor Landrieu appointed her to the Social Innovation Task Force, and she serves as an appointed board member of the New Orleans Business Alliance and the City of New Orleans’ public-private partnership for economic development.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Keynote Title:
The Evolution of Social Entrepreneurship in New Orleans

Cheryl Zhenyu Qian, IDSA | Purdue University

ALLAN CHOCHINOV
(@chochinov)
Partner, Core77
Chair, School of Visual Arts MFA in Products of Design

Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, where he serves as the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, a widely read design website. Chochinov lectures around the world and at professional conferences, including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA. He has been a speaker and guest critic at various design schools, such as Yale University, NYU, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, RISD, University of Minnesota, RIT, Emily Carr, Ravensbourne and RMIT. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern and Winterhouse. Before Core77, his work in product design focused on medical, surgical and diagnostic devices as well as consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from I.D. magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club and The One Club. In 2012, he will launch a new master’s in fine arts in products of design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City focusing on the purposeful, systemic role of artifacts and design offerings in multidisciplinary contexts.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Keynote Title:
The Community of Us

HÉLÈNE DAY FRASER, IDSA
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Design & Dynamic Media
Emily Carr University

Hélène Day Fraser is an assistant professor in the faculty of design and dynamic media at Emily Carr University. She holds a master’s in design from Emily Carr University and a bachelor’s in fashion design from Ryerson University, Toronto. Fraser has 15 years of experience within the fashion industry in both Canada and France. In recent years her work has encompassed the domain of critical design exploring sustainable consumption and textile form interfaces with technology. She is a cofounder of the Vancouver-based Intelligent Forms Design Inc. Since 2007, she has been responsible for envisioning and developing the wearable components of Digital Ventriloquized Actors (DIVAs) for the Visual Voice Project as a collaborator with the University of British Columbia’s Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre and MuSET group. DIVAs presentations and performances of “What Does A Body” Know have taken place at ISWC 2008, Risumeikan University, the Open Ears Festival, NIME 2010 and CHI 2011. As the lead investigator of Safety Lab, a research collaboration between Emily Carr University and the Vancouver-based activewear company lululemon athletica, she continues to actively re-imagine textile product possibilities and explore art- and design-based collaborations.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Creative Community: Artifacts and Actions

TOM De BLASIS
Global Design Director
Nike

Tom De Blasis, a global design director for Nike, took his first step towards a life in industrial design when as an 8-year-old boy he took apart his Star Wars Tie-Fighter and gazed upon the mess of circuit boards, wires and molded parts contained within. Magic, inspiration and a painful lesson in spring-loaded assemblies hit him all at once. He believes in designing experientially and so in the name of design research he has found himself walking into a burning building in full firefighter turnout gear, firing an illegal Belgian semi-automatic assault rifle, going on a stakeout with a private detective and walking the tent cities of refugee camps. Blasis’ latest creation is The Gamechanger Bucket, a health and happiness kit that brings access to clean water and sport to disaster areas and emerging communities all over the world.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Who Gives a Damn or These Are Gamechanging Days

JONAH DISEND
(@jdisend)
Founder and CEO
Redscout Ventures

Jonah Disend, a highly sought-after brand strategist and innovator, leads Redscout’s ability to imagine and realize new futures for companies. In 2000, Disend founded Redscout, the brand development shop, with offices in New York City and San Francisco and was featured on Ad Age’s “Ones to Watch” list. Redscout has been an integral part of the development of inventive and successful new products, services and experiences for a wide range of clients including PepsiCo, Diageo, Domino’s, Starwood and Kate Spade. Before founding Redscout, Disend was planning director at DDB Worldwide. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree from New York University. He has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Billboard and WWD.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
Do Collaborative Networks Eliminate the Role of the Designer?

STEVEN DOEHLER, IDSA
(@proDOEH)
Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati’s Industrial Design Program

Steven Doehler, IDSA is an expert in the area of user-centered product development. He has worked professionally for consulting and corporate design offices since 1988, and in October 1999 he started IDWorks (industrial design consulting). During this time, he was also active in several entrepreneurial efforts that centered on health and wellness. After 16 years of professional practice, Doehler joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati’s (UC) Industrial Design Program. Here he has brought his professional knowledge and experiences to an already well-established faculty and is leading efforts to build a strong entrepreneurial component to UC’s School of Design. He received a bachelor’s in fine arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master’s from the Ohio State University both in industrial design.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Design + Nursing: Innovation in Community Health

MARK DZIERSK, FIDSA
(@dziersk)
Managing Director, LUNAR / Chicago

Mark Dziersk is recognized expert in industrial design and brand management. He directs and manages industrial design in Lunar’s Chicago office and is part of the senior leadership team for the company. A frequent contributor to Fast Company magazine, Dziersk is also responsible for numerous design patents (100+) and has won many awards in design over a 20 plus year career, including Red Dot, IDEA Gold and ID Magazine Best of Category. He is a past president of the Industrial Designers Society of America and is the current executive editor of IDSA’s Innovation journal. For six weeks out of the year, he is an adjunct professor at both the Kellogg School and the McCormick School of Engineering teaching classes in understanding design thinking. Mark lives in Winnetka Illinois just around the corner from the “Home Alone” house.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
Join the Tribe or Be Cast Off the Island - A New View on Segments

DR. MARK EVANS
Senior Lecturer in industrial design
Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, UK

Mark Evans is a senior lecturer in industrial design and leader of the Design Practice Research Group, with interest in design methods, digital tools and practice-based research. He has consulted for clients that include British Airways, Unilever, British Gas and Honda, and received research funding from organizations that include the Department of Trade and Industry, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Hewlett Packard and Royal Academy of Engineering. His accomplishments include research activities and a professional practice that has resulted in over 90 publications, supervision and examination of 14 doctoral candidates, membership of the AHRC Peer Review College and appointment as an international scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recent collaboration with the Industrial Designers Society of America has resulted in the production of the globally distributed iD Cards design tool, which was a finalist in the 2011 International Design Excellence Awards.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
From PhD to IDSA: Case Studies in the Evaluation and Development of Design Tools

SUSAN FABRY, IDSA
Senior Design Strategist
Continuum

Susan Fabry is trained in psychology and industrial design and takes a holistic approach to product design. With nearly 15 years of ethnographic research experience, she excels at interviewing people to uncover ways to improve their lives. The leader of Continuum’s Women & Children Research Community, Fabry is focused on understanding the decision making process of women buying for more than just themselves. Before joining Continuum, she worked for Smart Design, Siemens and Item NPD, where she developed a broad range of products for clients such as Kellogg’s, OXO and HP. She earned her bachelor’s in psychology and studio art from Oberlin College and her bachelor’s of industrial design from Rhode Island School of Design. In addition, she has received numerous design awards from organizations such as IDSA, Design Zentrum Red Dot and JPMA.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
The Next Emerging Market: Women

LARRY FENSKE, IDSA
Visiting Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech

Larry Fenske is a visiting assistant professor at Virginia Tech. His teaching responsibilities have included design research, human computer interaction and other design studio and topics courses. Fenske has over twenty years’ experience in product design consulting and was a co-founder of Bjorksten/bit7 Product Development in Madison, WI. He obtained his master’s degree in industrial design from Purdue University and his undergraduate degree in industrial design from the University of Wisconsin – Stout. Fenske has designed products for the medical, dental, sports/recreational, consumer and industrial product markets. He has been awarded over twenty US and international utility and design patents and has received national and international design awards for his designs. Fenske is currently involved in several projects focused on improving the quality of life in rural communities in Laos and Northern Thailand.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Digital Storyboarding - Use of Digital Technology to Depict Use Scenarios

RAMSEY FORD
Co-Founder
Design Impact

Ramsey Ford is a co-founders of Design Impact, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to embed design within nonprofit organizations to create innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing needs, such as better access to water, safe environments and access to the necessities of life. This fall, Design Impact will place professional designers with five different organizations in India to work on projects that have long-term development goals. Ford has an extensive background in design, working as an award-winning consultant, educator and critic.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
Building Capacity Through Design

TOM GERHARDT
(@tomgerhardt)
Co-Founder
Studio Neat

Tom Gerhardt is an internationally recognized artist and designer who works across a broad range of disciplines. As a hardware and software developer at Potion, Gerhardt helped create interactive installations for some of the nation's most prestigious museums and retail spaces. As an artist, his work seeks to reconcile modern man's dual citizenship in the physical and digital worlds through projects like The Mud Tub, an organic interface that allows people to control a computer while playing in the mud. Most recently, Gerhardt and his design partner Dan Provost, created the Glif, one of the world's first crowd-funded commercial products. They subsequently founded Studio Neat, a design practice dedicated to making things simple and making simple things.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Keynote Title: 
"What the f%@k just happened!?!?": Idea to Market in Five Months.

JAMIE GILCHRIST, IDSA
(@jameg2169)
Technical Specialist, Manufacturing Industry Group
Autodesk

Jamie Gilchrist, IDSA brings more than ten years of design and engineering experience to his position of technical specialist within Autodesk’s Manufacturing Industry Group. In this role, Gilchrist is responsible for helping to create manufacturing design tools, including rapid prototyping processes. He also serves as a liaison between Autodesk partners and customers to ensure an efficient flow of development data. Previously, he held technical and product marketing roles within Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, he had industrial design and engineer positions with Neoporte, Praxis and Exo Design. Gilchrist earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial arts with an emphasis on product design and development from San Francisco State University (SFSU). At SFSU, he served as co-chair of the IDSA student chapter.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Democratizing Design - How Manufacturers Can Leverage the New Design Community

RICARDO GOMES, IDSA
Professor and Chair of the Department of Design and Industry
San Francisco State University

Ricardo Gomes is a professor and chair of the Department of Design and Industry (DAI) at San Francisco State University. He is director of the Design Center for Global Needs, a nonprofit international research and development center dedicated to promoting responsive design solutions to local, regional and global issues such as inclusive/universal design, health care, the aging, community development and sustainability. He is on the board of directors of the Institute for Human Centered Design in Boston and is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and Epsilon Pi Tau. He received his master’s in fine arts in industrial design for developing countries and a master’s in architectural building technology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his bachelor’s in fine arts in industrial design from Massachusetts College of Art. A former Fulbright Research Scholar in Kenya, Gomes has lectured extensively at universities throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Design to Live: Inclusive Design in the Majority World

ELIZABETH GOODMAN
(@egoodman)
Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Berkeley, School of Information

Elizabeth Goodman is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information. An interaction designer herself, Goodman’s dissertation research examines the movement of interaction design practice off the desktop to mobile devices, appliances and the world at large. She has taught digital art the San Francisco Art Institute and user experience design research at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research has been supported by a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship and an Intel Ph.D. fellowship.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Keynote Title: 
From Park Bench to Satellite: Designing from the Ground Up

KATE HANISIAN
Co-Founder
Design Impact

Kate Hanisian is a co-founder of Design Impact, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to embed design within nonprofit organizations to create innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing needs, such as better access to water, safe environments and access to the necessities of life. This fall, Design Impact will place professional designers with five different organizations in India to work on projects that have long-term development goals. Hanisian’s diverse experiences as an international educator and nonprofit developer include capacity building and community development work in Jamaica, New Zealand, India and the United States.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
Building Capacity Through Design

DAVID HOLMAN
Doctoral Candidate in Human-Computer Interaction
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

David Holman is a doctoral candidate in human-computer interaction and a member of the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. His research in digital-paper interaction led to the development of organic user interfaces and the world’s first interactive paper computer. He currently researches the implications of three-dimensional interactive form and how to design interfaces that are less like computers and more like everyday objects. In general, his work envisions a future where industrial and interaction design merge, and computational materials allow computers to take on any shape or form. He holds a master’s in computer science from Queen’s University.

 

Track:
Education Foundation & Future

Breakout Title:
Designing Everyday Computational Things: Why Industrial Design will be the New Interaction Design

GLEN HOUGAN, IDSA
Associate Professor
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University

Glen Hougan, IDSA is an industrial designer with experience in product research and development, human factors and health care design. He is an associate professor at NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada where he teaches industrial design. He is also the principal of the company Wellspan Research and Design that focuses on health care design and designs for an aging population. In 2010, he was made Sun Life Financial Chair in Design in Health and Aging and was recently featured on the PBS series Life Part 2 focusing on his Agespan suit, and his work in ageism and designing for an aging population.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Impact of Image: Designers and Ageism

Workshop Title:
Get Old Fast: Design for the Ages

CATHY HUANG
President
CBi China Bridge

Cathy Huang is a respected thought leader in the design industry. Under her guidance, CBi China Bridge has become the primary design research and innovation strategy consultancy in China. She was the first marketing director of GE/Fitch China, and a project manager of Haier Design Centre, where she acquired practical design knowledge and built strong relationships within the global design community. Huang has judged numerous renowned design awards, including the iF Design Award China, Pentaward, Electrolux Design Lab and China's Most Successful Design Awards. She frequently speaks at international conferences in America, Europe, Asia and often lectures at leading colleges and universities around the world. Her design views have been featured in CNBC, Fortune China, Design (Korea), ID magazine and many other media. Huang has published two books: Mobile Inspiration and Managing Design for Business Success: Readings & Case Studies on Design Management.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
Chinese Community's Past, Current and Future

TAO HUANG, IDSA
Assistant Professor, Product Design / Associate Chair, Art & Design Department
Columbia College Chicago

Tao Huang is an assistant professor of product design and the associate chair in the Art & Design Department of Columbia College Chicago. She earned her doctorate in architecture and design research from Virginia Tech. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s of fine arts both in industrial design from Beijing Institute of Technology and Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, respectively. She has practiced in multiple design fields for over 15 years, including product design, interior design, advertising, graphic design and packaging design. Her current research projects include: Chinese contemporary design studies, product semantics and sustainable design, systems theory and its adaptation in design, design and disaster prevention and relief. She is also an influential blogger and a regular contributor for several Chinese newspapers and magazines.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Designing Disaster-Resilient Communities

CHARLEY HUDAK
Lecturer

Born to Nancy and Paul Hudak of Pittsburgh, PA, Charley Hudak is the youngest of ten siblings. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2011. He loves family, friends, sports, shoes and travel. With his energy and enthusiasm he plans to do big things in the future. Jince Kuruvilla was born in Queens, NY to Mary and Philip Kuruvilla. He graduated in 2011 from University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. He loves to question the status quo and seeks to understand the people and environments around him. He has had internships in the design research/strategy field and is hell-bent on “being the change.” Raised in Puerto Rico, Vanessa Melendez is the daughter of Cheryl and Ismael Melendez. She has one brother and enjoys family, friends and being the life of the party. Always willing to roll up her sleeves and get to work, she plans to take it to the top at P&G and make a difference in whatever comes her way.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
The Tread Project

BEN KAUFMAN
(@benkaufman)
CEO & Co-Founder
Quirky

Ben Kaufman’s entrepreneurial journey started during his senior year of high school with a second mortgage on his parent’s house and the founding of an iPod accessory company called mophie. Shortly after mophie won “Best in Show” at MacWorld 2006, Kaufman discovered his passion for involving people around the world in the development of new consumer products. The rapid growth of the mophie brand led to its acquisition in August 2007, which allowed him to focus his efforts on bringing his idea of social product development to the next level. After two years of research and development on the unique technology platform that became the foundation of his future work, he publicly launched Quirky in June 2009. A passionate and opinionated speaker, he talks Quirky, products and design to audiences around the world. His work has landed him in hundreds of newspapers, magazines and TV networks. In 2007, Inc. magazine named him the top entrepreneur in the country under the age of 30. He was 20 at the time.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Keynote Title:
Quirky: Inventing Together

SCOTT KLINKER, IDSA
Industrial Designer and Educator
Cranbrook Academy of Art

Industrial designer and educator Scott Klinker heads the graduate 3D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he also received his master’s in fine arts. His work there builds on the Cranbrook tradition of modern design – searching for new forms to address our changing needs. He worked for both Ericsson and IDEO before founding his independent studio Scott Klinker Product Design—focused on developing licensed designs for furniture, household goods and toys. He designs, teaches, writes and curates exhibitions to build design culture in America and abroad.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
The Deindustrialization of Detroit: Questions for the Post-Industrial Designer

MIKE KRUZENISKI
(@mkruzeniski)
Design Lead, Windows Phone Design Studio
Microsoft

Mike Kruzeniski is a design lead in the Windows Phone design studio, leading design for communications and apps experiences. The apps team works with third party developers, external design studios and brands to help them create beautiful mobile experiences for the Windows Phone platform. Kruzeniski is also a lead for Windows Phone design collaborations with Nokia and was previously the UX creative director for the Windows Phone KIN. Before joining Microsoft, he was with Nokia Design's Insight + Innovation team, based in Los Angeles. He has a master's degree in interaction design from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden and a bachelor’s of industrial design from Emily Carr University.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
Kickstarter, Mods, Accessories, Apps and Marketplaces

ADAM KUMPF
(@adamkumpf)
Physical Prototyper
Teague

Adam Kumpf plays a fundamental role at Teague as a physical prototyper, combining his passion for making things with his technical expertise to prototype and explore experimental user interfaces, forms and functionality. His unique approach blends software and circuitry with fast form giving, all of which he shares and discusses with designers, developers, hackers and online communities whenever possible. Previously Kumpf attended MIT where he conducted research with Rodney Brooks in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He also worked closely with Hiroshi Ishii in the Media Lab on Trackmate, an open source, do-it-yourself tangible user interface. From MIT, he earned a bachelor’s and two master’s in electrical engineering, computer science, and media arts and sciences.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Teagueduino: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Making Things

CARL LEDBETTER, IDSA
Senior Principal Industrial Design Manager
Microsoft

Carl Ledbetter is a senior principal industrial design manager in Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) leading industrial design for entertainment hardware and experiences including Xbox and Kinect. Before joining IEB to design the Zune media player, Ledbetter was part of the Windows Hardware Innovation Group chartered to lead the industrial design vision for next-generation Windows PC hardware experiences. He also led industrial design for the Microsoft PC hardware business where he and his team designed desktop mice, trackballs and keyboards. Before Microsoft, he held industrial design positions at Fluke Corp. and Patton Design. He has received numerous design awards and is recognized for his contributions to the design community with over 100 patents. A longstanding member of IDSA and DMI, Ledbetter graduated with a bachelor’s in industrial design from Western Washington University.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
RE-KINECT: The Impact of Natural User Interface

TSAI LU LIU, IDSA
Associate Professor
Auburn University

Tsai Lu Liu is an associate professor of industrial design at Auburn University, and he graduated from the Department of Industrial Design at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Liu also holds an MBA from Georgia State University and a graduate industrial design degree from Auburn University. In 1992, Liu worked at Design Principles of Huntsville, AK for three years before returning to Taiwan. In Taiwan he worked for several companies where he managed product design and corporate marketing. Liu’s teams developed and introduced gaming machines, toy cars, LED products and Internet advertising systems to the international market, some of which are still on the market today. In 2002, Liu started his own firm designing and manufacturing products for disabled children. His studio clients include Johnson & Johnson, DeWalt, Georgia Pacific and Generac. In 2004, he returned to Auburn University as an industrial design faculty member.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Breakout Title:
If It’s Good For Users and Business, Is It Good For Designers?

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
“Do You See What They See?” A New Approach to Video Ethnography

ALEX LOBOS
Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology

Alex Lobos is always curious about how products connect users to their context. His research positions design as a tool for environmental and social innovation. He is an assistant professor of industrial design at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has also held faculty positions at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala and ISTHMUS Escuela de Diseño in Panama. Lobos has done extensive work in the area of home appliances, first during his graduate studies and then as an industrial designer for General Electric. He is a Fulbright Scholar and holds a master’s in fine arts from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor’s in industrial design from Universidad Rafael Landivar.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Education and Industry: Working Together to Advance the Practice of Sustainable Design

ANDY LOEWY, IDSA
Associate Professor, Industrial Design
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Andy Loewy is an associate professor of industrial design at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he presently teaches second year industrial design, materials and processes, and history of design technology. Before joining academia, Loewy was a product designer, and he worked in the fields of architecture and sculpture. He has been in national and regional shows and has had his work collected privately. His work is presently in the collections of the Arkansas Art Center of Little Rock, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis University and Hampshire College. Recently, Loewy has lectured and written for a variety of different national and international venues.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Tinkering - A Vehicle for Teaching Innovation in the University Industrial Design Studio

TRAVIS LONTZ
Independent Engineer/Designer

Travis Lontz worked as a mechanical engineer for 10 years in the field of product design and produced multiple designs that were efficient, manufacturable, but unfortunately “beauty challenged.” A desire to improve the appearance and user considerations of his concepts prompted him to return to school to learn the principals of form and procedures for ethnography. Two years of long hours allowed him to take care of his family while earning two degrees. Lontz recently graduated from Auburn University with a master’s degree in industrial design. His thesis work involved the exploration of DIY and design.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
The Mutual Benefit of Designers in Virtual DIY Communities

DAVE McCOLGIN
(@autonomic)
Senior User Experience Researcher
Artefact

Dave McColgin is a senior user experience researcher and project lead at Artefact, a design company in Seattle, WA. McColgin studied brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester, where he learned about behavior and contributed to new research on video game players showing brain changes previously thought impossible. He studied human-computer interaction at Georgia Tech. At Artefact and earlier at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, he has worked on design to influence energy efficient behaviors, visualization and analysis tools, medical information and devices, and more. He has earned several software copyrights and awards including International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) and the Good Design award.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
The Frontier of Persuasive Design

GRANT McCRACKEN
(@grant27)
Research Affiliate at the Convergence Culture Consortium (C3), MIT, Author

Grant McCracken earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago in cultural anthropology. He is the author of Culture and Consumption, Culture and Consumption II, Plenitude, Big Hair, The Long Interview, Flock and Flow, Transformations and most recently Chief Culture Officer. He has been the director of the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is a research affiliate at C3 at MIT. He has consulted widely in the corporate world, including the Coca-Cola Co., Campbell Soup, Diageo, IBM, IKEA, Sesame Street, Chrysler, Kraft and Kimberly Clark. He has served on marketing advisory boards for IBM and the Boston Beer Co. He is a weekly contributor to the Harvard Business Review Conversation.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Keynote Title:
Culturematic: Small Machines for Making Culture

ADAM MENTER
(@adammenter)
Manager, Creation of Educational Content
Autodesk

Adam Menter manages the creation of educational content on sustainable engineering and design at Autodesk. In this role he builds relationships with students, professors and professionals who work to advance the practice of sustainable design, and he helps to improve the way design tools and sustainability strategies are used within the design process. His current project is the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop. Since 2009, he has supported Autodesk’s sustainable design program on education, strategy and product development projects. He has worked as a design strategist at Jump Associates and holds both a mechanical engineering degree and an MBA from Vanderbilt University. He is a LEED accredited professional and a leader of the San Francisco Net Impact chapter.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Education and Industry: Working Together to Advance the Practice of Sustainable Design

GARRETT MILLER
Post-Graduate Student
Purdue University

Garret Miller is a post-graduate student at Purdue University’s interaction design program. He also holds a bachelor’s in fine arts in industrial design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Merging the two has allowed him to become a mediator between conceptual ideas and reality by constructing behavioral change and user experiences. His current research looks at how ideas are percolated, cultivated and harnessed. He believes the stimulation of creativity in various stages of the design process allows us to find better solutions. His research is supported by a teaching assistantship, where he instructs and mentors undergraduate design students.

 

Track:
Education Foundation & Future

Breakout Title:
Design Brainstorming: An Electronic Platform to Enhance the Creative Designer Community

JASON A. MORRIS, IDSA
Associate Professor
Western Washington University

Jason Morris is an associate professor of industrial design at Western Washington University and has been a consultant industrial designer since 1996. Before becoming a professor, Morris was principal of the design firm Tool in Marblehead, MA. He is also an independent documentary filmmaker who is working on a feature length biographical documentary on Walter Dorwin Teague. He earned his master’s of industrial design from Pratt Institute.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
The Consummate Professional: Walter Dorwin Teague

BYRON J. MOUTON
Director
URBANbuild, Tulane’s School of Architecture

Byron J. Mouton is an established architect, educator, New Orleans native and alumnus of Tulane University. He now finds himself building his locally based practice, BILD Design, in conjunction with his academic role as professor of practice at Tulane’s School of Architecture and as director of the school’s design/build program - URBANbuild http://tulaneurbanbuild.com/. With more than 20 years of experience in the fields of architecture and construction and receiving several design awards, Byron is committed to critical design and construction assignments that focuses on environmental remediation and affordable housing construction in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast.

 

Track:
Community as Context

Keynote Title:
New Orleans, "URBANre-build" in a Post Katrina World

KIERSTEN MUENCHINGER, IDSA
Director, Product Design Program & Principal, Green Product Design Network
University of Oregon

Kiersten Muenchinger is the founding director of the Product Design Program and a principal of the Green Product Design Network at the University of Oregon (UC). Muenchinger researches new materials and their processing methods to understand when and why the newest materials technologies are accepted in mass-produced consumer products. She lectures on the intersection of materials, manufacturing and design in academia and business. She is an active member in the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) recently holding the education representative position for the Western District. Before joining UO as an associate professor, Muenchinger has been a design engineer with IDEO, Fitch, Sottsass Associatti, Walt Disney Imagineering and the Long Now Foundation, and she founded the company Parapluie. She received her master’s and bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and Dartmouth College, respectively.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Experimental Materials: Integrating Green Chemistry in Product Design

JAE PARK
A Creative Director for Windows Phone Design Studio
Microsoft

Jae Park is a ten-year Microsoft design veteran and one of the creative directors for Windows Phone Design Studio. He was one of key figures in redesigning the Windows Phone platform and the reshaping of the design studio. Over the last year, he led a three-year experience vision project for the Windows Phone division. He has helped transform Windows XP to Windows Vista before joining Windows Phone. He majored in industrial design at RISD and has 16 years of design experience spanning hardware product design to Web, desktop and mobile platform design. He has a passion for how design fits in a bigger product development process, and he believes in the dialogue that refines the product development process so that the best user experience can be delivered to consumers.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
Remix: I Create, You Create, We Create

ANNA RABINOWICZ, IDSA
(@RabLabs)
Associate Professor
Parsons The New School for Design

Anna Rabinowicz is an associate professor in the Product Design department of Parsons The New School for Design. Her research focuses on bio-inspired design. As a product design consultant, she created consumer and medical products and strategies for consultancies, such as IDEO Product Development and Design Continuum, including webcams, concept car interiors and a prosthetic knee. She launched her first home collection for RabLabs in 2002, creating objects inspired by nature which fuse ancient, precious materials with cutting-edge design. Her designs are available in MoMA Design Stores, Barneys New York, Isetan and Shinsegae, among others. Rabinowicz’s designs have been featured in publications including Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Elle Décor, Wallpaper, ID Magazine, New York Magazine, and O (Oprah) Magazine. She has a bachelor’s in literature from Stanford University and a master’s in design and engineering from Stanford’s Product Design Program.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Community Engagement: Addressing Societal Woes Through The Lens Of Design

DANA RAGOUZEOS
Senior Designer and Researcher
Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation

Dana Ragouzeos is a senior designer and researcher at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation. She works with an interdisciplinary team embedded in the clinic to design products, processes and services for people who provide, receive and facilitate health care. Before working at Mayo, Ragouzeos worked internationally in the fields of architectural and product design. She’s been fortunate to work in truly diverse teams and appreciates the rigor and empathy necessary to work across disciplines to design truly sustainable solutions. She studied architecture and urbanism at Smith College and product design at California College of the Arts. Her passion for working as a designer embedded within health care began with her graduate work designing interactive support tools for caregivers of dementia patients.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
How to Grow a Culture: Lessons learned from the Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation

CLAUDIA B. REBOLA
Assistant Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology

Claudia B. Rébola is an assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Industrial Design. She is director of the Design and Technologies for Healthy Aging and head of the D-Matters Studio Lab housed at the Center for Assistive Technologies and Environmental Access. Her focus is on intergenerational design, communication technologies and healthy aging with special emphasis on exercising inclusive design, tangible interfaces/physical computing and participatory design methods. Her interests are in application areas tailored to healthy aging with an emphasis on humanizing technology by design, empowering the user and celebrating the value of simplicity and tangibility in product interactions.

 

Track:
Education Foundation & Future

Breakout Title:
OutReach Initiatives

KAREN KORELLIS REUTHER
President
Design Management Institute

Karen Korellis Reuther is a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural design leader whose experience includes industry-leading corporations, twelve years at NIKE, design consultancies, owning a small design firm in Munich, Germany, and at Ziba, a worldclass design and innovation firm where she was director of consumer insights and trends. As Global Creative Director at NIKE, she led the creative vision and implementation of design strategies from product creation to merchandising across footwear, apparel and equipment that leveraged the power and emotion of trend, color and materials. Reuther is currently the president of the Design Management Institute, an international nonprofit, connecting design leaders to the inspiration, knowledge and community they need to succeed. She has a bachelor’s in industrial design from Purdue University and a master’s in business from Lesley University.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
Failure to Connect

DAVID RINGHOLZ, IDSA
Industrial Design Program Director
Iowa State University, College of Design

David Ringholz is a practitioner and educator with more than a decade of teaching and design experience. His professional design activities include usability research, Web development, graphic design, industrial design, commercial interior design and manufacturing. During his award-winning career, he has worked on projects with Coca-Cola, Fossil, Sony-Ericsson, Newell-Rubbermaid, Philips, Freescale Semiconductor, Sunbeam, Target, Home Depot and others. In 2006, the Design Futures Council recognized him as one of the most admired design educators in the US. In 2010, he joined the faculty at Iowa State University as director of a brand new industrial design program.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Small Planet, Big Ideas: New Models in Global Collaboration

BRIAN RODERMAN, FIDSA
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
In2 Innovation

Brian Roderman is the co-founder and chief innovation officer of In2 Innovation, an international product design and development group with offices located in Austin, Dallas and Houston, TX and Wuxi, China. Roderman has worked in the design consultancy business for over 20 years and frequently speaks on design and innovation at events and symposiums worldwide. He has a bachelor’s in fine arts in industrial design from the University of Kansas. He has extensive design experience in consumer electronics, consumer products, housewares, transportation, telecommunications and business-to-business industries. He currently serves on The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management Marketing Program Advisory Board and was conferred the title of visiting professor at The Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China. He is active with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) having held six terms on IDSA’s Board of Directors.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Small Planet, Big Ideas: New Models in Global Collaboration

ROO ROGERS
President
Redscout Ventures

Roo Rogers launched Redscout Ventures in January 2010 to concentrate on creating new projects, support existing entrepreneurial companies with their growth plans and advise private equity firms. Rogers most recently served as the co-founding partner of OZOlab, the fund and incubator for environmental start-ups and as the CEO of OZOcar, the eco-friendly car service. In 2004, he founded we:nited magazine. In 2000, he launched Drive Thru Pictures and Drive Thru Films, the award-winning British and American film company. After working for Medecins Du Monde/UNICEF in South Sudan, he co-founded UNITY TV. Rogers is the co-author of What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, delving into understanding the exploding economy of collaborative consumption. He received his bachelor’s degree from Columbia College and his master’s degree in economic development from University College London.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Breakout Title:
Do Collaborative Networks Eliminate the Role of the Designer?

KEVIN SHANKWILER, IDSA
(@Shank71)
Assistant Professor, Industrial Design
Georgia Institute of Technology

Kevin Shankwiler is an assistant professor in Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Industrial Design. He is a member of IDSA’s Education Council, chair of IDSA’s Atlanta Chapter and faculty advisor for Georgia Tech’s IDSA Student Chapter. His research focus is on mass customization and digital parametric modeling. His interests are in application areas tailored to new business models in industrial design. With over eight years of industry experience prior to a career in research and design education, he maintains a principal position while teaching at a small freelance business Shankwiler Design LLC.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Titles:
Parametric Assistive-Universal Furniture - Enabling products that are tailored to specific needs while preserving formal design intent.


OutReach Initiatives


MARTIN SMITH, IDSA
Chair Professor of Industrial Design
Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Martin Smith is an industrial designer and design educator with over 35 years of experience in product development, design education and design management. While with Designworks USA he managed several major automotive design projects for Volvo, Mazda, General Motors, Chrysler and Subaru as well as others. As a consultant, he designed products for Avery-Dennison, Reebok, Salomon, Olympus Image Systems, Playtex and Coca-Cola. Smith recently joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Polyu) in 2008 as chair professor of industrial design. Before joining the Polyu, he was chair of the Product Design Department at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is past chair of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America and has been a judge of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s IDEA® awards and the ID magazine Awards. He has lectured throughout Europe and Asia about design education and the strategic value of design in product development.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Transportation Design Education - A New Direction

Visser, Steve, IDSA | Indiana Vice Chair | Purdue University

Steve Visser, IDSA is a professor of industrial design at Purdue University and has been on faculty since 1989. In 1996 he served as a Fulbright professor at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. In 2007 he was named honorary professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology in Nanjing China. Before teaching, he worked as an industrial designer at Hari and Associates in Skokie, IL. He received a master’s in fine arts in industrial design in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visser has received six patents for designs he has worked on. Additionally, he has served as an expert witness on patent infringement cases involving a variety of companies, including 3M, Diebold, Fisher Price and Intex recreational products.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
A Collaborative Effort: Integrating Interaction Design Evaluation into Product Design Process

NORMAN STEVENSON
Industrial Designer and Ph.D. Researcher
Loughborough University Design School

Norman Stevenson is an industrial designer and Ph.D. researcher based at Loughborough University Design School in the UK. He is currently undertaking doctoral research funded by the EPSRC investigating the true opportunities and limitations for industrial design consultants to address the goals of sustainable and responsible design within their commercial role. His areas of exploration include traverse design thinking and processes, the remit of the commercial designer and the interrelationship of business and design strategies. Before his return to academia he worked for more than a decade in professional design practice creating emotionally compelling and insightful products for global clients in the consumer, communications, industrial and health care sectors, and his work has received international awards and recognition, including Red Dot, CES, Good Design, IF and IDEA®.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Complexity and Community: The Relevance of the Design Community for Responsible Design Implementation by Consultant Industrial Designers

MARGARET GOULD STEWART
(@mags)
Director of User Experience
YouTube

Margaret Gould Stewart manages the user experience team for YouTube, leading the company's overall design and user research efforts. Prior to her current role, she spent two years leading Search and Consumer Products UX at Google. Stewart has been a practitioner and manager in the field of user experience for over 15 years. After graduating from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 1995, she consulted extensively with New York media companies such as the New York Times, Time-Warner and Scholastic to develop many of their first forays into the Web. She's held leadership roles at a variety of high profile start-ups and companies, including Tripod.com and Angelfire.com, which were both acquired by Lycos Inc. Over the course of her career, Stewart has led the design teams for five of the 10 most visited websites in the world.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Keynote Title:
Co-creating with Humanity: The Design of Open Systems

CHRIS STRENG, IDSA
(@chrisstreng)
Founder / Director
Streng

Chris Streng is the founder and director of Streng, an award-winning design firm located in Chicago and New York City. Internationally recognized, the firm demonstrates a diversity in expertise and mediums including product design, brand strategy and development, experiential design, anthropology and packaging. Streng’s extensive knowledge has allowed him to make significant contributions to consumer goods, fashion, housewares and emerging technologies for clients such as KitchenAid, Procter & Gamble, Kohler, Cappellini and Motorola. His work has been exhibited internationally in Japan, Seoul, Shanghai, London and Milan, and he also led the Smithsonian's first National Design Triennial. He’s won many awards from competitions including IDEA®, Good Design, Red Dot and SPARK. Streng studied industrial design at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, anthropology and human geography at Marquette University and architecture and product design at Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. He sits on the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Design Council and runs the blog CreativeReuse.com.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
The Big "Why": Designing for Emotional Response

YANCEY STRICKLER
(@ystrickler)
Co-Founder
Kickstarter

Yancey Strickler is co-founder of Kickstarter, the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. His writing has appeared in New York Magazine, Pitchfork, Spin and the Village Voice, among other publications. He lives in New York City and has personally backed more than 350 Kickstarter projects.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Keynote Title:
Kickstarter: The Power of Storytelling

ROEL VERTEGAAL
Associate Professor, Human Computer Interaction
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

Roel Vertegaal is an associate professor in human-computer interaction (HCI) at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and director of the Human Media Laboratory. He is also CTO of Xuuk Inc., a startup that develops attention sensors for interactive, real-world viewing statistics gathering. Vertegaal's first degree is in electronic music from Utrecht conservatory in the Netherlands. He earned a master’s in computing in Britain, studied design in the Hague and holds a doctorate in HCI from Twente University. He is one of the world's experts on eye communication between humans and between humans and technology. He received the premier of Ontario's research excellence award for his work on attentive user interfaces, which was featured in media across the globe, from Good Morning America to Scientific American. Recently, Vertegaal pioneered PaperPhone, an interactive paper computer that garnered international media attention.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Designing Everyday Computational Things: Why Industrial Design will be the New Interaction Design

MICHAEL VOEGE
(@Getaround)
Industrial Design Lead
Getaround

Michael Voege is the design lead at Getaround, a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace. Before Getaround he was the director of industrial design at Cooper, where he worked with clients on convergent design and strategy focused programs. Prior to Cooper he held multiple design leadership positions at frog design in California and Texas. During his 14-year career, Voege received 11 industry awards for his product design programs both in the traditional industrial design and convergent programs collaborating with interaction and visual design disciplines. He has worked on consumer products, software user interfaces, automotive interiors, furniture, medical and industrial equipment, among others. He was educated at ArtCenter College of Design in Switzerland and in the US, where he studied transportation and industrial design.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Designing for Sharing - Harnessing the Power of Communities

VINCE VORON, IDSA
Associate Vice President
IMC Design, Coca-Cola North America

Vince Voron, associate vice president, sets the graphics, retail and industrial design vision for Coca-Cola North America. While head of global industrial design he led the form and user interface design for the Coca-Cola Freestyle platform. He also developed the first 3D visual identity system. The resulting proprietary design language has been commercialized on four continents. He’s earned several design patents. Before joining Coca-Cola in 2006, Voron was senior industrial design manager at Apple. During his 16 years there, he developed and led the human factors and color teams responsible for iMacs, PowerBooks, iPods and the iPhone. His background includes a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from San Jose State and a master’s in human ecology design from Université Paris V. He serves on the advisory board for the University of Wisconsin Business School.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Leveraging Design to Amplify Brand Truth & Engage Consumers

SCOTT WILSON, IDSA
(@ScottWilsonID)
Founder
MINIMAL

Scott Wilson, founder of Chicago-based MINIMAL, is an accomplished designer and former global creative director at Nike. Over his 18-year career, Wilson has led design organizations such as IDEO, Thomson Consumer Electronics, Fortune Brands and Motorola. Most recently, Wilson and MINIMAL earned attention for their TikTok + LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits for the iPod Nano that debuted on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter.com. Other recent design collaborations include Microsoft’s Xbox 360 + Kinect Sensor, Dell’s Venue Pro Smartphone and the SW_1 Conference/Lounge Collection for Coalesse. Wilson's work has been recognized with over 50 international design awards and has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, MoMA, Museum of Contemporary Art and The Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Keynote Title:
$1M Recipe

WESLEY WOELFEL, IDSA
Assistant Professor
California State University, Long Beach

Assistant Professor Wesley Woelfel’s international professional experience spans many design disciplines from industrial, to display and exhibition, environments, thematic and game design. For the past five years, Woelfel has worked on several designs incorporating soy-based urethanes and solid-surface materials made from 85 percent reused material for clients including Toyota, Starbucks and Walmart. Several of his industrial design students were honored as second and third place award winners at the 2010 International E-Waste Design Competition and recently honored as winners of the 2011 International E-Waste Design Competition. Woelfel is a member of the A.R.E. Sustainability Council, serves on the California State University, Long Beach Sustainability Task Force and works as design director at Greneker in Los Angeles. Currently, he teaches industrial design methodology and also heads the Bachelor of Arts in design program at California State University, Long Beach.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Design Methodologies for Social and Community Impact on E-Waste Reduction

MATT WOLFE
Interaction Designer
Teague

As an interaction designer at Teague, Matt Wolfe continues to pursue his passion for problem solving, tinkering and board games. An avid proponent for agile design, he believes that ambiguous design problems can be resolved through rapid, focused iteration. To support this notion, he continues to look for and create ways to remove barriers between design and implementation. At Teague, he makes use of his background in small business and his mad Illustrator™ skills to deliver compelling, business-ready solutions. He achieves all this by using his liberal arts knowledge impressed on him by the Jesuits at Seattle University, where he majored in fine arts. In his spare time he is a professional darts player.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Workshop Title:
Teagueduino: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Making Things

PAUL WORMALD
Associate Professor
National University of Singapore

Paul Wormald is an associate professor at National University of Singapore. Following a mechanical engineering first degree and a master’s from the Royal College of Art, UK, He worked for six years as an industrial design engineer in UK manufacturing industry. Wormald is an experienced and enthusiastic design educator. He taught for nearly 20 years in one of the Britain's premier design schools at Loughborough University becoming the leader of the industrial design program. He has worked with many companies including Guinness, Procter & Gamble, Land Rover, OSIM, Decathlon, McCain, Mars, Boots, Smirnoff, Orange, Cadbury, Kenwood and the BBC. Paul's research is focused on design education and practice, especially front-end industrial design activities. He has supervised successful doctoral students in the areas of industrial design application to disability and computer aided industrial design.

 

Track:
Education Symposium & Sessions

Breakout Title:
Front End Industrial Design (FE-ID) - Modeling Novel ID-Related Processes and Activities.

SAM ZAID
(@samzaid)
CEO
Getaround

Sam Zaid is an engineer and entrepreneur. He is founder and CEO at Getaround, the leading marketplace for peer-to-peer car rentals that recently won TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2011. Before Getaround, Zaid founded Apption, an enterprise software consultancy, and Gazaro, a retail price intelligence platform. He is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, a Microsoft Code Award winner and a Google Scholarship recipient. He studied engineering and physics at Queen's University and is a graduate of the Singularity University Graduate Studies Program.

 

Track:
Methods & Means

Breakout Title:
Designing for Sharing - Harnessing the Power of Communities

AARON ZINMAN
(@azinman)
Co-Founder
Empirical Design LLC

Aaron Zinman is a co-founder of Empirical Design LLC, a Boston-based design and development shop. A recent graduate of the MIT Media Lab, Zinman continues to build upon his doctoral research to understand strangers online using culturally-minded modeling and visualization. These new applications aim to fundamentally affect the way we interact online. His award-winning work has been covered by PBS, BBC, CBC, CNN, The Atlantic and more. A San Francisco native, he enjoys the three days a year New England weather permits motorcycle riding.

 

Track:
Attitudes & Behaviors

Keynote Title:
Computing Digital Traces for Fun and Profit


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