People interested in learning about ID's methods, community and degrees are invited to our Open House in Chicago on Thursday, September 18th. ID currently offers Ph.D. and Masters degrees for those seeking professional mastery in the field, in areas such as communication design, interaction design, product design & development, strategic design, systems thinking, and research. ID also offers a nine-month executive Masters degree in design methods for advanced design, management, engineering and other professionals who want to be innovation leaders in their organizations, and a dual MDes/MBA degree program with the IIT business school.

Location 6:00-8:00pm, Institute of Design, 350 N LaSalle St, Chicago

This conference will provide a forum to feature the design research conducted in some of the world's most forward-thinking corporations and academic institutions. It will emphasize the importance industry and academia share in generating value and advancing the role design research plays in the development of future generations of products and services. A compelling facet of our new direction is to share insight from the organizational perspective on the challenges and successes of research implementation.

www.designresearchconference.com

Location Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

The second annual ID-sponsored Bay Area Alumni Reception was on the rooftop of the Hotel Vitale in San Francisco, right in front of the Ferry Building and with impressive views over the bay. ID alumni, students, staff, and prospects mingled and reunited, while fighting the cold by visiting the open bar frequently. Thanks all of you that managed to make it to the gathering and for those of you who couldn’t, you can still catch each other in one of the ID cocktail hours the locals organize every 6 weeks or so. Stay tuned on the SF Bay alumni blog.

Location The Hotel Vitale, San Francisco

We have charted the planet and are mapping the human genome, but what of the ever-expanding universe of ideas? How is information about the way we live, work and play shared with the rest of the world?

Location 5:00pm, 350 N LaSalle Street, 2nd floor, Chicago

A few intrepid Chicago alumni gathered for drinks and a late dinner in the South Loop, in honor of the Southsiders amongst us.

Coming up before Labor Day: alumni backyard barbecue!

Pictured are (left to right) Frank Gruger (B.S. 99), Melody Roberts (M.Des. 98), Sheila Foley (M.Des. 98) and Alon Friedman (M.Des. 01).

Location Tantrum bar

Design Summer Camp at the IIT Institute of Design is a new program offering a week-long, engaging and intensive deep-dive into the latest methods of design and design-thinking taught in our graduate programs.

Location IIT Institute of Design, 350 N LaSalle, Chicago

Global businesses increasingly appreciate how design and design thinking can provide them with high-level, strategic value and competitive advantage. In an intensely competitive market, with ever more diverse and demanding customers, executives are often left unsure of exactly what products, communications and services to create for what segments of the market. Design, with its ability to understand users, redefine problems and create systemic, human-centered solutions, can help companies better understand their customer's daily lives, and lead directly to valuable (and valued) offerings that are effectively tailored to their market.
Now in its fourth year, the Institute of Design Strategy Conference continues to work to build a stronger bridge between design and business strategy.

Location Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Don Norman is a Professor at Northwestern University, co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, and former Vice President of Apple Computer. He serves on many advisory boards, including Encyclopedia Britannica and the Industrial design department of KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He was awarded the Benjamin Franklin medal in Computer and Cognitive Science. He has honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University Delft (the Netherlands) and is the author of “The Design of Everyday Things” and “Emotional Design.” His newest book, “The Design of Future Things,” discusses the role that automation plays in our everyday lives. He lives at www.jnd.org.

This special guest lecture was made possible by the great leadership of the IDSAB (the ID Student Activities Board).

Video: The Design of Future Things (678MB mp4, 1 hour 20 minutes). Quicktime is recommended for viewing this large file. There are no slides.

Location 350 N LaSalle Street, Chicago

As part of a tri-national colloquium on healthcare management at the IIT business school, two teams of ID students presented their work from Fall 2007.

Videos:
The Lived Experience of Sandwiched Caregiver Families [mp4, 248MB, 31 minutes]
Rethinking - Design Thinking - Healthcare [mp4, 683MB, 1 hour 25 minutes]

Quicktime is recommended for viewing these large files.

Slides alone:
Lived Experience of Sandwiched Caregiver Families
Rethinking-DesignThinking-Healthcare

Location IIT Stuart School of Business, Chicago

recruitID is a forum for design and business professionals to meet students from the Institute of Design and discuss methods, offerings, innovation planning and employment opportunities. A resume book is available for download. Please see the site listed at right for resumes, scheduling and registration details.

Location IIT Institute of Design, 350 N LaSalle St, Chicago

Larry Keeley is director of Doblin Inc., a Monitor company, and an Institute of Design adjunct faculty member and board member. He has presented this keynote on convergences in health recently at Harvard Business School and at the Mayo conference on transformations in health.

This special event is part of the new ID initiative 'Rethinking Health' made possibly by a generous personal gift from Robert Pew, Chairman of the Board, Steelcase Corporation and Chairman, ID Board of Overseers.

Video: Watch the video of this presentation (868MB mp4, 1 hour 40 minutes). Quicktime is recommended for viewing this large file.

Or, download just the slides (4MB pdf).

Location IIT Institute of Design

The Design for the New China Markets Conference is an executive forum hosted by the IIT Institute of Design and the State Intellectual Property Office, People's Republic of China. It is intended for leaders interested in the design and development of products and services for China.

Location Peninsula Hotel, Beijing