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Speakers
Tania Aldous
Design director, Global Consumer Design,
From Strategy to Reality:
Winning the Hearts and Minds of Consumers
Organizations need to adapt to thrive in new cultural, economic and environmental landscapes.
Alec Bernstein
Director, Advanced Communications,
Research Narratives:
Transfer through Entertainment
New design research methodologies and techniques have increased in response to new business problems. However...
Dan Buchner
Vice President, Innovation and Design,
Resolving Truly Big Problems:
Impacting Global Issues by Design
Some of the world’s most significant problems can’t be solved with products alone, no matter how well designed they may be.
Stuart Karten
Principal,
Innovate/Resonate:
Tools for Change
In today's marketplace, it's not enough to anticipate where an industry is heading.
Darrel Rhea
Principal / CEO,
Making Meaning:
The Role of Design Research in Designing Deep Value
The driving principle for design in the new millennium should be about creating deep empathy and connection with the people we design for.
Lou Rosenfeld
Founder,
Eating our own Dog Food:
Using UX methods to build a UX business
Combining technology with user experience thinking can lead to truly innovative products and business models.
Dan Saffer
Experience Design Director,
How to Lie with Design Research:
Same Data, Different Findings
"There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." Thus said Mark Twain. Should we add "Research Findings" to the list?
Jason Severs
Senior Design Analyst,
Alternatives:
Inspiration for the Collaborative Design Team
Can we rely on users to help revolutionize a design solution?
Andreas Steinle
Partner & Managing Director,
From CommuniTeens to Greyhoppers:
The Social Change and the New Target Groups
The old characterizations of market target groups – determined by income, education and age –have become irrelevant.
Shelley Evenson
Associate Professor / Director of Graduate Studies,
Designing for Service:
New Ways to Get at the Heart of the Service Experience
New approaches to service design in a knowledge-based, service-centered society.
Steve Herbst
Senior Manager, Design Research,
Consumer Experience Design,
Perceived Quality:
Revealing what matters most
How might we identify and prioritize objective attributes underlying user perceptions of product quality?
Steve Knox
CEO,
Marketing's Holy Grail:
The Key Learnings Behind Word of Mouth
With so much attention and demand, why is it that marketers continue to miss the mark so often in their efforts to create Word of Mouth?
Harry Rich
Deputy Chief Executive,
Trust me, I'm a Designer:
How Design Research Can Influence Businesses, Governments and Policy Makers
the role of design research in supporting design investment decisions and in demonstrating the impact of design in transforming companies and creating economic value.
Workshop Leaders
Tim McGee
Biologist at the Design Table,
Life's Design Principles:
An Introduction to Thinking Biomimetically
Life has been performing design experiments in Earth's R&D lab for 3.8 billion years. How can we learn from this?
Cobie Everdell
Design Analyst,
Alternatives:
Concept Testing at Work
Concept Testing avoids the cognitive homogeny so typical of focus groups. It's an immersive experience that encourages participants to contribute to the design process, individually and in groups.
Jason Severs
Senior Design Analyst,
Alternatives:
Concept Testing at Work
Concept Testing avoids the cognitive homogeny so typical of focus groups. It's an immersive experience that encourages participants to contribute to the design process, individually and in groups.
Maggie Breslin
Designer/Researcher, SPARC Innovation Program,
BYOL: Building Your Own (Service) Lab
Research at the Point of Service
The building block of design research is an interaction and every day companies fail to make use of a prized resource, their access to customers.
Matt Maleska
Designer/Researcher, SPARC Innovation Program,
BYOL: Building Your Own (Service) Lab
Research at the Point of Service
The building block of design research is an interaction and every day companies fail to make use of a prized resource, their access to customers.
List of speakers
Speakers
- Tania Aldous | Whirlpool
- Alec Bernstein | DesignworksUSA
- Dan Buchner | Continuum
- Shelley Evenson | Carnegie Mellon
- Steve Herbst | Motorola
- Stuart Karten | Stuart Karten
- Steve Knox | P & G Tremor
- Darrel Rhea | Cheskin
- Harry Rich | Design Council UK
- Lou Rosenfeld | Rosenfeld Media
- Dan Saffer | Adaptive Path
- Jason Severs | Frog Design
- Andreas Steinle | Zukunftsinstitut
Workshop Leaders
- Tim McGee | Biomimicry Guild
- Maggie Breslin | Mayo Clinic
- Matt Maleska | Mayo Clinic
- Cobie Everdell | Frog Design
- Jason Severs | Frog Design
















