recruitID is a bi-annual recruiting event that connects the design and business communities with the talented students and graduates at the IIT Institute of Design (ID). Each recruitID event is organized to accommodate private interviews with students and graduates.

Details and registration for the event can be found at:

http://trex.id.iit.edu/recruitID/

Following is a sample of the companies that have participated in past recruitID events.

2nd Road -- Acquity Group -- Adaptive Path -- Arc Worldwide -- Autodesk -- Avenue A | Razorfish -- Belkin -- Best Buy -- Bose -- Blink Interactive -- Chase Card Services -- Chase Design -- Citigroup -- Clorox -- Conifer -- Continuum -- Critical Mass -- Doblin/Monitor frog design -- FutureBrand -- GE Healthcare -- Gensler -- Google -- gravitytank -- IA Collaborative -- IDEO -- Ignition -- Innovationedge -- in/situm -- Intuit -- Janou Pakter -- JG Sullivan -- Johnson Health Tech -- Jump Associates -- Lextant -- LG Electronics -- Magellan -- Manifest Digital -- Mayo Clinic -- Matter -- McDonald's -- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center -- MetaDesign -- Method -- Microsoft -- Moment -- Motorola -- PDT -- Perkins + Will -- Prophet -- Radio Flyer -- Remedy -- RGA -- RKS Design -- Roundarch -- RTC -- Safeco | Open Seas -- SAP -- Sapient -- SC Johnson -- Smart Design -- State Farm Insurance -- Steelcase -- Target -- T-Mobile -- The Buzz Company -- User Centric -- Vocollect -- VHA -- Whirlpool -- Ziba

Important Dates and Deadlines for recruiters:
Feb 22nd: Resume book available on website
Mar 7th: Deadline for registration and interviewee selections
Mar 21st: Interview schedules available
Mar 26th: First day of interviews, followed by evening cocktail reception (location TBD)
Mar 27th: Second day of interviews
Mar 28th: Third and final day of interviews

More information email Ashley Harris at ashley@id.iit.edu

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IIT Institute of Design’s annual Strategy Conference will be May 9-10, 2012, in downtown Chicago. Those of you who have attended before know it as the annual gathering of about 300 leading thinkers in strategy and design. http://trex.id.iit.edu/stratcon/

Where to play, how to win

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.

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IIT Institute of Design welcomes you to attend our spring 2012 open house. If you would like to know more about our methods, community and professional graduate degrees for both designers and those from other fields, please join us on Thursday, February 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m., at 350 North LaSalle Street in Chicago.

http://www.id.iit.edu/events/

The program will include break-out sessions with students, faculty, and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; one-on-one talks with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

All are welcome to attend. RSVP to design@id.iit.edu or call Graduate Admissions at 312.595.4900.

Of course, please share this invitation with anyone you know who may be interested in design and innovation.

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Companies can be great at creating new ideas. But they can also be good at killing them. Professor Patrick Whitney, Dean of the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, shares with us the top 10 ways that companies commit innovation suicide. These include "wanting to innovate as long as it does not involve change" and "not knowing perfection is the enemy of success." Professor Whitney will be joined by panelists Richard Whitehall of Smart Design and Steve Smith, a venture capitalist with more than 25 years of experience in the field.

Please RSVP by October 31st
rsvp@smartdesignworldwide.com

http://conta.cc/pXI1d3

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recruitID is a bi-annual recruiting event that connects the design and business communities with the talented students and graduates at the IIT Institute of Design (ID). Each recruitID event is organized to accommodate private interviews with students and graduates.

Details and registration for the event can be found at:

http://trex.id.iit.edu/recruitID/

Following is a sample of the companies that have participated in past recruitID events.

2nd Road -- Acquity Group -- Adaptive Path -- Arc Worldwide -- Autodesk -- Avenue A | Razorfish -- Belkin -- Best Buy -- Bose -- Blink Interactive -- Chase Card Services -- Chase Design -- Citigroup -- Clorox -- Conifer -- Continuum -- Critical Mass -- Doblin/Monitor frog design -- FutureBrand -- GE Healthcare -- Gensler -- Google -- gravitytank -- IA Collaborative -- IDEO -- Ignition -- Innovationedge -- in/situm -- Intuit -- Janou Pakter -- JG Sullivan -- Johnson Health Tech -- Jump Associates -- Lextant -- LG Electronics -- Magellan -- Manifest Digital -- Mayo Clinic -- Matter -- McDonald's -- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center -- MetaDesign -- Method -- Microsoft -- Moment -- Motorola -- PDT -- Perkins + Will -- Prophet -- Radio Flyer -- Remedy -- RGA -- RKS Design -- Roundarch -- RTC -- Safeco | Open Seas -- SAP -- Sapient -- SC Johnson -- Smart Design -- State Farm Insurance -- Steelcase -- Target -- T-Mobile -- The Buzz Company -- User Centric -- Vocollect -- VHA -- Whirlpool -- Ziba

Important Dates and Deadlines:
Sept 27th: Resume book available on website
Oct 13th: Deadline for registration and interviewee selections
Oct 24th: Interview schedules available
Oct 27th: First day of interviews, followed by evening cocktail reception (location TBD)
Oct 28th: Second day of interviews

More information email Ashley Harris at ashley@id.iit.edu

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For nine years, DRC has brought together leading thinkers, exceptional practitioners, and seasoned executives. This year’s conference will set the spotlight on exciting changes driven by emerging technologies and the new position of design research within the business world. Please join us for two days of cutting-edge ideas, fresh work, and new business connections. Discounts are available for groups and early registrants before September 12.

http://www.designresearchconference.com

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TEAGUE + IDEO + GENSLER: A discussion around prototyping at the IIT INSTITUTE OF DESIGN

On Thursday, October 6th, Prof. Martin Thaler and Prof. Anijo Mathew will lead three ID graduates in a discussion around prototyping -
Tim Miller, Senior Design Strategist at TEAGUE; Lawrence Abrahamson, Senior Designer at IDEO; and Cynthia Coleman, Strategist at GENSLER will discuss how prototyping changes when the scale of the prototype moves from a product to an environment. They will also talk about how their design firms use prototyping in projects for ideation, strategy, and planning.

The event is sponsored by Teague and is part of an ongoing series of workshops and discussions around prototyping@ID. The event is open to everyone.

The event is scheduled from 6.00-7.30pm on Thurs, Oct 6th in Room 201 at IIT Institute of Design. The discussion will be followed by a reception.

You are invited to a one-day workshop at the IIT Institute of Design on tools and approaches for assessing how internal cultural forces and structures within organizations affect communication, and strategies for creating and conveying powerful messages that stick. This workshop is designed for professional working at the front end of the business decision-making process engaged in communications across departments and functions.

Understanding the complexity of the communication landscape is essential for those tasked with innovation and communicating the new. Diagnosing how and why communications work for some stakeholders but not others can be the starting point for a thoughtful planned approach to crafting messages and presentations that get heard and remembered.

During this one-day intensive workshop, you will learn to:

- recognize common causes of failure of communication
- identify and analyze mindsets and biases in an organization
- distinguish different modes of communication
- assess your existing communications process
- develop compelling narratives
- plan for communications barriers
- break presentation conventions

In today’s increasingly disruptive communications environment, analysis for the planning, creation, and delivery of compelling messages is essential to support great innovation ideas. We hope you can join us.

The workshop will be led by Ruth Schmidt. Ruth Schmidt is an innovation design strategist at Doblin | Monitor and adjunct faculty member at the IIT Institute of Design. Her work combines design strategy and user research with compelling communication design and narrative to investigate, solve for, and present solutions to complex problems.

To register:
http://bit.ly/o9zTNJ

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IIT Institute of Design welcomes you to attend our Fall 2011 Open House. If you would like to know more about our methods, community and professional graduate degrees for both designers and those from other fields, please join us.

Alumni Lawrence Abrahamson, currently at IDEO, will discuss his career before the Institute of Design, his experience while a student, and what he is working on today . He will also discuss his recent article in The Journal of Service Design .

In addition to the talk, the program includes break-out sessions with students, faculty, and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; one-on-one talks with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

All are welcome to attend. RSVP to design@id.iit.edu or call Graduate Admissions at 312.595.4900 .

To learn more, please visit: http://www.id.iit.edu/events/

The program will include break out sessions with students, faculty, and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; one-on-ones with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

All are welcome to attend. RSVP to design@id.iit.edu or call Graduate Admissions at 312.595.4900.

And of course, please share this invitation with anyone you know who may be interested in design and innovation.

Graduate degrees

Master of Design
The two-year Master of Design (MDes) degree is intended for those seeking professional mastery in field, in areas such as communication design, interaction design, product design & development, strategic design, systems thinking, and research. In addition to trained designers, applications are encouraged from those without a formal design background, with the addition of a preliminary one-year Foundation program of study.

Master of Design / MBA dual degree program
Offered in conjunction with the IIT Stuart Graduate School of Business, the Master of Design / Master of Business Administration (MDes/MBA) dual degree program combines graduate professional education in both design and business. The first program of its kind in the world, IIT's MDes/MBA marks an important milestone in the co-evolution of design, management, and innovation. As design becomes regarded more and more as an essential business resource, professional education that links the two fields is becoming increasingly important.

Master of Design Methods
The nine-month Master of Design Methods (MDM) is a part-time or full-time professional degree for mid-career designers, managers, engineers and other leaders of innovation, focusing exclusively on advanced methods and frameworks for leading innovation and strategy teams.

PhD
ID was the first design school in the U.S. to offer a PhD in 1993, which culminates in a dissertation extending the body of knowledge about design theory and process. Graduates of this program tend to work in universities or corporate research.

Hiring ID alumni
Companies have responded by recruiting ID alumni for the unique value and strategic competencies that they bring to businesses and other organizations.

"As our work has shifted to more strategic projects, we've changed our hiring goals to add three or four ID grads a year. They bring incredible skills for strategic work. They are very good at navigating open-ended projects, tolerating the ambiguity and bringing it in for a landing."
-- Nancy Nichols, Director of Global Recruiting, IDEO

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“Design at the intersection of objects, information and spaces” lecturette w/ Carla Diana from Smart Design & Jeff Hoefs from the Rockwell Group 5-6p followed by reception. Open to public.

Product design has evolved into a rich field that encompasses a range of experiences involving both physical objects and information. In the recent past, interaction design was mostly confined to screens, but the proliferation of digital technology has created a landscape in which physical and virtual forms are constantly interchanged with one another. This new combination of factors has empowered designers to craft product behaviors that have not previously existed. Carla Diana and Jeff Hoefs of Smart Design are two such designers. In their practice, they face the challenges of navigating an ever‐evolving spectrum of new product behaviors. In this talk, they will identify the opportunities and challenges involved in crafting hybrid physical/digital projects and discuss case studies for hybrid approaches that led to deeper solutions than those attained through traditional processes alone.

Speaker Bios:
Carla Diana enjoys living as close to the near future as possible. As Associate Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design, her projects include domestic robots, mobile devices and sentient kitchen appliances. In her practice, she combines experience in industrial and interaction design to create solutions that bridge the gap between the physical and the digital. She has taught and lectured internationally, most recently at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was the creative director for the iconic humanoid robot, Simon. Carla holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from The Cooper Union and an MFA in Industrial Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She recently completed a studio residency focused on explorations in interactive object‐making at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.

Jeff Hoefs is an interaction designer, developer and educator. He has been designing interactive experiences as an artist and a commercial interaction designer for over 10 years. As a member of the Lab at Rockwell Group he utilizes his extensive experience in physical computing and tangible interface design in the creation interactive environments. In his spare time he enjoys contributing to open source toolkits and creating devices and installations that incorporate technology to inspire curiosity, creativity, and interaction in playful and meaningful ways.

5-day immersive workshop designed to give participants exposure to and practice with design methods taught at ID. Past participants range from executives and designers from companies like P&G, Microsoft, Anhueser-Busch, Amway, Steelcase, HSBC, and McDonald's. Follow the link below for more information and registration:

http://www.id.iit.edu/1194/

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http://www.id.iit.edu/events/strategyconference/2011/

The IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference is an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage.

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Come to the Institute of Design's September open house to learn more about whether ID's graduate programs are right for you.

ID's curriculum is based on a set of core classes that cover key issues that can help organizations create human centered information, products and services. Building on this core, a variety of electives enable students to focus on particular interests like communication design, interaction design, platforms & systems, product design, strategic design and user research.

More information will be available on September 23rd. The event will include break out sessions with students, faculty and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; a mock class; one-on-ones with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

Registration
RSVP to design@id.iit.edu

Contact
Rachel Dean
Director, Admissions and Retention
312-595-4906

Agenda

4:00 - 5:00 pm
Mock Class, Room 201
Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Dean

5:15 - 6:00 pm
Tours
Meet at 6th Floor elevators
led by current ID students

6:00 - 6:05 pm
Welcome
Nathan Lecture Hall
Patrick Whitney, Dean

6:05 - 6:15 pm
What is ID?
Nathan Lecture Hall
Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Dean

6:15 - 6:25 pm
Student Experience
Nathan Lecture Hall
current ID students

6:25 - 6:35 pm
Alumni Experience
Nathan Lecture Hall
David McGaw, MDes 2007

6:45 - 7:45 pm
Breakout Sessions and Reception:

Communication Design + Interaction
Steelcase Team Space
Faculty: Tom MacTavish + Anijo Mathew

MDes/MBA + Design Planning
Steelcase Team Space
Faculty: Jeremy Alexis

Product Development
Steelcase Team Space
Faculty: Dale Fahnstrom + Marty Thaler

Master of Design Methods
Conference Room
Faculty: Vijay Kumar + Patrick Whitney

Ph.D. and Research
Steelcase Team Space
Faculty: Keiichi Sato

7:45 - 8:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Steelcase Team Space
John Grimes, Associate Dean

8:00 pm
Reception Ends

We're hosting an alumni reunion event next month in San Francisco, graciously hosted by Hot Studio. It will begin with a short presentation and discussion with Professor Judith Gregory, followed by an open reception. This is a great chance to catch up with each other and hear a little about what the school is up to these days. Details are below. Hope you can make it!

ID SF-Bay alumni event:
Design & Emotion
Hosted by Professor Judith Gregory, Ph.D., IIT Institute of Design

Thursday, August 5, 2010
6:00pm, open reception to follow
Hot Studio, 585 Howard Street, San Francisco

Please join ID's Professor Gregory and fellow Bay Area alumni for a brief presentation and discussion about emotional human factors in design and design research, followed by an open reception. Judith is the Conference Chair for the 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion, which IIT will host in Chicago on October 4-7: http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

Space for the lecture is limited to about 40 people. Guests are welcome at the reception, and possibly in the lecture if space permits, but alumni will have priority. Please RSVP, including any guests you would like to bring, to vince@id.iit.edu .

About the topic: Design & Emotion
Technologies are now able to achieve emotional qualities and designs that incorporate such technologies abound, from affective energy meters to social-robotic companions for the elderly. Every day, we experience major changes in technological, social, cultural and economic environments that enhance and challenge our sensibilities. Breakthroughs in neuroscience, behavioral economics, cognitive science and philosophy of mind and the body, open onto new understandings and engage us in lively dialogue and debate. Many designers and design studios regard emotion as the next wave in design. What do the new sciences tell us about meanings and effects of emotion? How are systematic methods possible for emotion in design?

Possible questions for discussion include

- How do contrasting ways of thinking about emotion influence design researchers' methods for exploring emotions, affect, feelings, sensations and motivations that inform design intentions to enhance pleasurable experience and interactions?
- How can designers more fully take up new scientific knowledge about emotion to evolve design methodology and frameworks?
- How do the subtleties of cultural sensibilities shape responses to aesthetics and emotions in design?
- How are designers seeking to integrate emotions into design process?
- How may we better understand the emotional effects of designed artifacts, interfaces, visualizations, services, environments and 'experience design'?

For more context on this topic, see the work of

- Cynthia Breazeal, www.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab, is a pioneer designer and theorist of Socio-Emotional Design of Personal Robots that can communicate with people in human-centric terms. Her recent work investigates how impact of social robots may help people of all ages to achieve personal goals that contribute to quality of life.

- Mark Johnson, www.uoregon.edu/~uophil/faculty/profiles/markj/, analyzes philosophical implications of the role of human embodiment in reasoning, imagination and values has circulated widely in design and architecture circles. His current work explores the aesthetic dimensions of meaning-making and the emergence of values from our bodily and interpersonal experience.

- Jeroen van Erp, Fabrique Design Bureau (NL),
http://www.fabrique.nl/en/, argues that 'cutting straight through the design disciplines so that the traditional borders between graphic design, industrial design, spatial design and interactive media are sometimes barely recognizable but always with a primary focus on designs which address the concerns and emotions of consumers ... will be the only way to create apparently simple solutions for complex and relevant issues in future."

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

Key Benefits and Content
- content provided by ID faculty - hands-on activities and learning experiences in the studio and in the field - learn to conduct field research, transform insights into innovations, and rapidly prototype innovations

Who Should Attend
Experienced designers, managers and innovation leaders and problem-solvers from all disciplines are welcome. No formal design training required, but management experience is strongly recommended. To ensure the highest quality experience, enrollment is limited to 20 participants.

What People Say
"It was great to be able to walk out of a week at ID right into a digital innovation project for a global handset manufacturer with all the models, worksheets and skills so fresh in my mind. As I speak only English, it has also been quite a challenge flying in to European and Asian markets to lead workshops, where I've quickly discovered that the subtlety of creativity is often lost in translation. ID's methodologies have proven to be some of my most valuable tools in bridging the gaps and introducing the concepts of human-centered design thinking to clients and agency teams. I take a lot of training programs in different strategic approaches but I tell everyone, yours is the best one I've ever done."
-- Jordan Herald, Strategy Director, BLAST RADIUS

Fees
$5,000, plus accommodations

Contact
Ashley Harris
Director of Corporate Relations
ashley@id.iit.edu
312-595-4920

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

Key Benefits and Content
- content provided by ID faculty
- hands-on activities and learning experiences in the studio and in the field
- learn to conduct field research, transform insights into innovations, and rapidly prototype innovations

Who Should Attend
Experienced designers, managers and innovation leaders and problem-solvers from all disciplines are welcome. No formal design training required, but management experience is strongly recommended. To ensure the highest quality experience, enrollment is limited to 20 participants.

What People Say
"It was great to be able to walk out of a week at ID right into a digital innovation project for a global handset manufacturer with all the models, worksheets and skills so fresh in my mind. As I speak only English, it has also been quite a challenge flying in to European and Asian markets to lead workshops, where I've quickly discovered that the subtlety of creativity is often lost in translation. ID's methodologies have proven to be some of my most valuable tools in bridging the gaps and introducing the concepts of human-centered design thinking to clients and agency teams. I take a lot of training programs in different strategic approaches but I tell everyone, yours is the best one I've ever done."
-- Jordan Herald, Strategy Director, BLAST RADIUS

Fees
$5,000, plus accommodations

Contact
Ashley Harris
Director of Corporate Relations
ashley@id.iit.edu
312-595-4920

Learn more about whether ID's graduate programs are right for you. The program will include break out sessions with students, faculty and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; a mock class; one-on-ones with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

Who Should Attend
Prospective students, parents, employers and others interested in learning more about our graduate degree programs.

Agenda

5:30 – 6:00 pm
Welcome ; 'What is ID?'

6:00 – 6:30 pm
Student presentation ; Alumni presentation

6:30 – 7:45 pm
Rotating 20-minute breakout sessions ; Reception

7:45 – 8:00 pm
Closing Remarks

We are excited to announce the IIT Institute of Design's 9th Annual Design Research Conference (DRC) on May 10-12th 2010.

The 2010 DRC will be held at the Spertus Institute in Chicago, the same venue as the sold out 2009 conference. It will feature exceptional international speakers and opportunities to spend time with our brilliant community of designers, planners, researchers, educators, students, managers and executives concerned with understanding people.

DESIGN RESEARCH HAS WON. WHAT'S NEXT? Design research is now recognised as the leading way to understand people. Now stripped of its niche status, the field of design research faces new challenges: professional integrity, technology, communication, integration, and new markets. How can it protect its professional integrity as it expands? What methods will new technologies allow and which methods will be swept away? How can design researchers communicate findings through experiences rather than reports? How do you ensure that research is truly integrated into the design process? How do you conduct research in difficult environments?

In its 9th year, the DRC will be a conversation about the new frontiers of design research. It will host the world’s most compelling stories about the human condition and unmet needs. It will be a stimulating place to learn the most innovative new research methods. It will address the challenges facing the industry head on. Finally, it will continue to explore how design research can help us address the grand challenge of bringing meaningful things into the world.

Join us for this year's End of Year Student Show at IIT Institute of Design.

Think. Feel. Do.
IIT Institute of Design End of Year Show
Saturday May 8th, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
5th and 6th floors

Come see what the students have been thinking, feeling, doing at the Institute of Design. We will be showcasing exciting projects that will capture your MIND, touch your HEART and inspire you to DO something.

Please join us for an upcoming ID Alumni + Friends event:

When: Friday, April 30th from 6-9pm
Where: Vessel, located in downtown Seattle at 1312 5th Ave

It's a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues and meet many of the new faces in the community. Be sure to pass this on to anyone you know in the area who might be interested.

Please RSVP at: abatchu@gmail.com or abuhayar@gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you soon.

Amy Batchu and Andrew Buhayar

Join AIGA Chicago members and others to hear ID's dean Patrick Whitney on current thoughts and examples about the death of advertising, the coming boom in interactive environments and the revolution about to happen in museums, schools and companies.

http://www.aigachicago.org/node/14342

Thursday, April 29, 2010
Hotel SAX Chicago
4th Floor, 333 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60654
6pm Reception
7-8pm Presentation

Registration is $20 for AIGA members
and $40 for non-members
and $10 for students.

Patrick Whitney
Professor Patrick Whitney is the dean of the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology and is the Steelcase/Robert C. Pew Professor of Design. Business Week calls Whitney a visionary who connects design and strategy, Forbes lists him as a member of the E-Gang due to his work on humanizing technology, and Global Entrepreneur identifies him as one of 25 people doing the most to open China to new business practices. He is a frequent keynote speaker at design conferences including the recent ICOGRADA Congress in Beijing, and a regular speaker at policy and futures conferences such as the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, the Aspen Institute 50th anniversary, and TED.

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Improving Design Decision Making and Concept Evaluation
Jeremy Alexis, Assistant Dean and Professor, IIT Institute of Design

http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/education/seminars/idd.htm

April 29-30, 2010, Chicago, USA
September 16-17, 2010, Seattle, USA

It is an accepted fact that when someone notes, “he or she is a great leader” what they really mean is that “he or she has a clear point of view and makes good decisions.” As important as decision-making is to the success of design projects, there is little formal training in design schools, and managers often rely only on intuition when making critical, strategic decisions about projects and even their own firm.

The first day of this seminar will teach an overall approach as well as specific methods and tools for improving decision making in all phases of the design process, with particular attention being paid to leading a group decision process. The final half-day of he seminar will focus on a specific type of decision, concept evaluation. In this section, participants will learn methods and tools for prioritizing and evaluating design alternatives, guiding the most important decision of the design process: which one of the ideas is best for the organization and the customer.

What you will learn:
*Useful tools for improving decision-making
*A process for making logical, data driven strategic decisions during the design process
*An understanding of the biases and failure modes of poor decision-making
*How to lead group decisions in order to increase buy-in and follow through of your team
*A process for evaluating past decisions in order to improve future results
*A structured process for identifying the most valuable concepts and design alternatives
*A range of tools for concept evaluation, including stakeholder engagement, prototyping, and business model impact analysis.

How you will benefit:
This seminar will teach easy to use and implement tools for improving the quality of your decisions. Participants will leave the seminar with ideas and methods that can be applied as soon as they get back to work. In addition, participants will leave with a framework for classifying and prioritizing decisions, helping to better focus their time and resources on truly important decisions.

Who should attend and why:
This class is for design professionals that make strategic decisions about projects and their firms. It is especially useful for anyone that is currently involved in a firm in transition, since change forces many decisions.

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'Improving patient safety by user-driven design of decision support', Christian Nohr, Aalborg University

Christian Nohr will present the participatory design games approach for Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures (PSIP), a 5-country European Union project including Denmark. In this technology R & D project, the Danish team created video-ethnography documentation of interactions between doctors, nurses and patients regarding medication prescriptions and medication taking. Video clips were then used as material in design process in participatory workshops for rapid prototyping to support 'collective intelligence' for design of support for the complexity of medical work practices.

More about 'Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures' (PSIP): http://www.psip-project.eu/

More about Christian Nohr
Christian Nohr, M.Sc. Ph.D. Professor of health informatics and technology assessment at Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg University, Denmark. Director of he Virtual Centre for Health Informatics (V-CHI). Christian has worked with health care informatics for more than 25 years. His main research field is technology assessment and evaluation studies, organizational change, design and implementation of information systems in health care. He has been project manager of several national research projects, and participated in a number of European projects. He is currently a member of the E-health Observatory -- an ongoing project, which monitors the development and implementation process of E-Health systems in Denmark.

http://personprofil.aau.dk/profil/104306

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We hope you can join us for an evening of learning and networking in New York with design colleagues and corporate partners, and catching up on the latest ID news with faculty and students. Please RSVP by Monday, February 8th, to ashley@id.iit.edu.

Agenda

Workshop: Behavioral Economics and Design
4:30pm - 5:30pm
led by professor Jeremy Alexis and students
In the real world, people are often irrational; over the past few decades, researchers have codified many of the patterns that describe this irrational behavior. As researchers, how can we be on the lookout for these patterns of behavior when we go into the field? As designers, how can we use our understanding of patterned irrational behavior to help people make better choices? Join us as we explore these issues and introduce five tools developed at ID to help designers apply these findings to their practice in order to provide a head start on framing research as well as developing new strategies for solving user problems.

Cocktail reception
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location
Monitor Group is located at: 140 Broadway New York NY 10005 http://www.monitor.com/

Who Should Attend
Prospective students, alumni, partners and friends.

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Overview
Learn more about whether ID's graduate programs are right for you. The program will include break out sessions with students, faculty and alumni about life at ID; examples of current student work; guided tours of the facilities; a mock class; one-on-ones with faculty; and the chance to get answers to questions about admissions and curricula.

Who Should Attend
Prospective students, parents, employers and others interested in learning more about our graduate degree programs.

Agenda

5:30 – 6:00 pm
Welcome ; 'What is ID?'

6:00 – 6:30 pm
Student presentation ; Alumni presentation

6:30 – 7:45 pm
Rotating 20-minute breakout sessions ; Reception

7:45 – 8:00 pm
Closing Remarks