2012NortheastDDCspeakers

STEWART BIBBY
Senior Lecturer
University of Lincoln

Stewart Bibby is a senior lecturer in product design at the University of Lincoln (UK) and a member of the mbrela collaborative project with the industrial design programs at San Jose State University and Philadelphia University. In 2011, the mbrela team presented collections at SaloneSatellite Milan, ICFF and NeoCon East Baltimore. He holds a master’s in education and has presented research on design education in the Far East and Europe. He is currently responsible for the cultures, drawing and design contexts elements of the undergraduate program at Lincoln.

Session Title:
Mbrela Project and the Future of Education

PETER W. BRESSLER, FIDSA
Founder and Board Chair
Bresslergroup Inc.

Peter Bressler is founder and board chair at Bresslergroup. His particular strengths include creative program planning, user research, human factors, materials and process application as well as innovative criteria conflict resolution. His current focus is on strategic business planning and entrepreneurial programs. He and Bresslergroup serve a broad range of national and international clients, including Becton Dickinson, Black and Decker, Schick, Assa Abloy and Siemens. Bressler has authored and co-authored over 100 design and utility patents. He has received over 70 national and international awards for product design, design engineering, packaging design and graphics. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Bressler graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, receiving several national awards including the Alcoa and Industrial Design Society of America Merit Awards for his invention of a standup wheelchair.

Session Title:
We Can Design our Future History

MICHAEL d’AMATO
Owner
TURNIN2

Michael d’Amato has been curiously deconstructing and reconstructing the world around him since his early years in Philadelphia. He studied microbiology, biomechanics and entrepreneurship at the University of Rochester and won the graduate engineering design competition. He published studies on orthopedic polymers for biomedical devices and won second prize at the business plan competitions for the Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. His professional work includes engagement with medical device startups, gene therapy and finance.

Session Title:
Manufacturing the 21st Century

DANIEL GODDEMEYER
Strategic Design Consultant

Daniel Goddemeyer is a strategic design consultant, specializing in ideation, who transforms research and insights into fresh connections. He then develops compelling products, services and experiences through the application of strong design thinking paired with long fostered design experience. He has worked at FutureFarmers, ReD Associates, Fjord, Antenna Design, Teague, Artefact and, more recently, IDEO in leading roles for clients such as Nokia, Samsung, Lego, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Fujitsu-Siemens. Goddemeyer’s work has been exhibited internationally and recognized by the Art Directors Club and Industrial Designer Society of America. His most recent distinction is a Red Dot Award for one of his concept projects and the German Design Award. He currently teaches a course focused on uncovering new opportunities for services and products through cell phone data in Columbia University’s Spatial Information Design Lab in New York.

Session Title:
Invisible Behaviors: The Legibility of Our Digital Behaviors in Public Space

HILARY JAY
Founding Director
DesignPhiladelphia

Hilary Jay is an award-winning curator, design journalist, entrepreneur and founding director of DesignPhiladelphia. In fall 2000, she was named director of The Design Center (TDC) at Philadelphia University, charged with repositioning the institution to reflect the university’s broadening design and technology curriculum. During her nine-year tenure, she curated numerous exhibitions supported by grants from the Philadelphia Exhibition Initiative, a program of the Pew Center for Art and Heritage. Through successful fundraising, Jay has overseen the mounting of exhibitions such as The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment, the establishment of programs such as Fabric of Philadelphia and Design Education Creativity Kits (DECKS). She is a past board member of the Philadelphia Furniture & Furnishings Show, COLLAB: professionals supporting design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the American Institute of Architecture, Philadelphia Chapter. Jay currently serves on the Mayor’s Board for Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy.

Session Title:
Where are They Going? Where Did They Come From?

CHARLES MAURO
President
MauroNewMedia

Charles Mauro is president of MauroNewMedia, a New York-based consulting firm specializing in usability engineering and user interface design. Over his 35-year career, many leading corporations and startups in a wide range of industry sectors, including financial services, consumer products, industrial systems and military applications, have retained him. He holds numerous US and international patents covering user experience (UX) and product design. He has been responsible for complex UX design solutions currently running on major world markets. He is the chair of IDSA’s Design Protection Section and IDSA’s liaison to the USPTO for Design Day 2011-12. He has lectured on UX design and usability at MIT, Stanford University and other leading educational institutions. Mauro has been retained as an expert witness in over 50 major cases representing leading high technology companies covering UX and product design patent litigation. He has received awards and citations from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Association of Computing Machines and NASA. He has been quoted in Science, The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal. He writes about UX related trends on the blog Pulse>UX. He has a bachelor’s in industrial design from The Los Angeles Art Center College of Design and a master’s in ergonomics and biomechanics from New York University.

Session Title:
A Trajectory of Industrial Design: from Raymond Loewy to Steve Jobs

BILL MOGGRIDGE, FIDSA
Director
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Bill Moggridge is the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. He designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, which launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in 10 countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life through the Cooper-Hewitt. A Royal Designer for Industry, Moggridge pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has taught at the Royal College of Art and at Stanford University. His books, Designing Interactions and Designing Media, reveal developments in the design of technology through interviews and commentary.

Keynote Title:
What's Next?

JAMIE SALM
Creative Director
Mio

Born in Medellin, Colombia in 1978, Jaime Salm was always interested in the arts and sculpture. He studied at several art academies with independent artists and local architects. He received a bachelor’s in industrial design in 2001 from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Following his graduation, he co-founded MIO. He exhibited his first collection of furnishings at the 2003 International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Since then, products from the MIO Collection have been showcased by Material ConneXion, The Ontario Science Center, The National Building Museum in Washington and The Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, among others. His work has been widely published in periodicals including Metropolis, Interior Design, The New York Times, Newsweek, Contract Magazine and Azure. In 2005, his designs were recognized with the Best Collection Award at the New York International Gift Fair. His work is part of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection. He has been a guest speaker at the Pratt Institute and Parsons in New York City, The University of Pennsylvania, The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the TCDC in Bangkok.

Session Title:
Green Design for Everyone

CHRISTOPHER SHARROCK
Dean, College of Art, Media and Design
University of the Arts

After leaving art school, Christopher Sharrock began a career as a freelance illustrator but received a job offer as a representative at a large illustration agency in London. He soon left the agency to set up his own agency. Next, he worked on the groundbreaking British television show "Spitting Image" drawing caricatures of celebrities and then sculpting these in clay. The heads were molded to make the puppets that the show was known for. He later moved into higher education, becoming chair of a new master’s program in illustration at St. Martin’s School of Art in London. He worked at a number of British universities and was later dean of Camberwell College of Arts, part of the University of the Arts, London. He is now dean of the College of Art, Media and Design in the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (not affiliated with the school in London of the same name).

Session Title:
Where are They Going? Where Did They Come From?

GÖTZ UNGER
Associate Professor and Founding Director, Industrial Design Department
Philadelphia University

Götz Unger, associate professor and founding director of the Industrial Design Department at Philadelphia University, holds a master’s in design from the Royal College of Art, London and a Gesamthochschulabschluss in design from the University of Kassel, Germany. In his role as manager of design development groups, he has led interdisciplinary teams in numerous development and research projects. He has practiced as a freelance designer in the US and in Europe, with products on the market and in exhibits in both continents. His work has been featured in publications here and abroad. Professor Unger maintains a design studio and design consultancy in PA.

Session Title:
Mbrela Project and the Future of Education

STEPHEN B. WILCOX, Ph.D., FIDSA
Principal and Founder
Design Science

Stephen B. Wilcox is a principal and the founder of Design Science (Philadelphia), a 25-person firm that provides human factors and related consulting services for product development. He is a member of IDSA’s Academy of Fellows and has been a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for many years. He has served as a VP and member of IDSA’s board of directors and was chair for several years of IDSA’s Human Factors Professional Interest Section.

Dr. Wilcox holds a bachelor’s in psychology and anthropology from Tulane University, a doctorate in experimental psychology from Penn State and a certificate in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than 65 articles and book chapters, including forthcoming articles in the AAMI journal, Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology  and in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology .

He serves on the Human Factors Engineering Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, and the Editorial Board of Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry, for whom he has served several times as a judge for the Medical Device Excellence Awards. Dr. Wilcox was the Co-Chair of the Include 09 Conference on Inclusive Design at the Royal College of Art in London, and he is one of the organizers of the upcoming Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care (March, 2012), sponsored by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He is also the co-author of the Taylor and Francis monograph, Designing Usability into Medical Products (2005).

Session Title:
What Designers Ought to Know about Research