Presenter
Session Description
Ayana Patterson, IDSA
Luxury CMF + Form Specialist
Presenter
Track 3 - 8:30pm EDT
Presentation: Luxury State of Mind
A powerful conversation about elevating design with aesthetics and consciousness.
Ali Murtaza
Head of Service Design, IDEATE Innovation
Presenter
Track 3 - 9:00pm EDT
Presentation: Let's Not Save the Next Billion
We’re taught that human-centered design champions the individual, taking into account the infinite ways in which people think, need, and behave differently. Within both academia and practice, this holds true—but only as long as we’re designing for ourselves. As soon as we design for the “other,” those whom we consider to be inherently different, what we’ve learned goes out of the proverbial window. We plan to bestow design upon the next billion people, as if our work were a gift from us to them. But each billion begins with a ‘one,’ and each one has a plan for themselves.
Lada Gorlenko
Director of UX Research at Smartsheet
Presenter
Track 3 - 9:30pm EDT
Presentation: Design a Team you Love
In the world obsessed with great customer experiences, we often overlook the experiences of people who should matter to the business most—our own teams. How might we apply the best practices of human-centered design to designing rich and fulfilling experiences of our own teams? Whether you are an established leader, a new manager or a rank-and-file teammate, this talk will help you design your team’s experiences for better rapport, collaboration and, ultimately, a strong sense of belonging.
Michael DiTullo, IDSA
Founder, Michael DiTullo, LLC
Moderator
Track 3 - 10:00pm EDT
Panel Discussion: Real Designers Ship
Industrial designer Michael DiTullo, IDSA will bring his concept of Real Designers Ship to the IDC 2020 as a panel discussion, joined by three other designers who have all worked with global brands to bring products to mass production at affordable prices for everyday people. They will discuss the difference between speculative work and design meant for people, what it takes to bring something to production and the balance we have to strike to get the most advanced yet acceptable solutions into production.+
Panelists:
Cia Mooney, IDSA
Independent Designer
Howard Nuk
Co-Founder, Palm
Jason Mayden
Co-Founder, Tillicon Valley & Founder, Super Heroic
Jayeon Kim
Leadership Training, Community & Culture at Google
Kate Lockhart
Content Strategist, Google
Presenters
Track 3 - 10:00pm EDT
Workshop: Google Digital Wellbeing Toolkit
In today’s digital-first environment, designing product experiences for digital wellbeing is a must. Join Google’s user experience practitioners to learn research-backed principles and practices that you can use to support people’s wellbeing. This hands-on workshop will explain how Google defines digital wellbeing, then invite you to apply the UX principles through interactive design activities. Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of the importance of digital wellbeing and practical tools that they can put into action right away.
Kristine Arth
Founder & Creative Director, Lobster Phone
Presenter
Track 3 - 10:00pm EDT
Breakout: Creating an Unshakable Brand
An unshakable brand has unique attributes that make it memorable and even loved for no apparent reason. In this session I’ll break down the steps I use to create character-driven brands with a strategic foundation. We’ll cover how strategy leads to purposeful design choices that build brands of substance and curiosity.
Anne McDonald, S/IDSA
North Carolina State University
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Track 3 - 10:45pm EDT
2020 South District Undergraduate Student Merit Award Winner
Anne McDonald is a senior industrial design student at North Carolina State University. Anne’s passions for industrial design come from the goal to help others, no matter what the platform might be. She is excited to continue using her industrial design skillset in the medical industry when she graduates. When Anne is not designing, you will most likely run into her at a concert downtown or hiking in the woods.
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Arielle Assouline-Lichten
Principal / Founder, Slash Objects
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Track 3 - 11:00pm EDT
Keynote Presentation: Unexpected Juxtapositions and Thoughtful Design
Adjacencies create new meanings as we seek to redefine our material world and the value of detritus. Slash Objects aims to reframe the conversations around waste and introduce new ways to imagine physical products in a world where our materials matter most. The work started with discarded tires—a global byproduct of society which creates a huge amount of waste. In this waste, we saw possibilities. We set out to imagine new lifecycles where mundane materials such as this one could be diverted from landfills and be put back to productive use. Beauty takes on new meaning as a form of activism driving forward change. Thoughtful design rethinks the role of the designer into that of thought leader, proposing new futures and, at the same time, building them.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS
SEPTEMBER 11-13