Design@Large will return on April 10, 2019
Spring 2019 speakers will return on Wednesday, April 10. Check back for more details. In the meantime, check out the Winter 2019 speakers.
Assistant Professor in Design
The Design Lab at UC San Diego (https://designlab.ucsd.edu) seeks candidates for tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor rank. The Design Lab at UC San Diego is a new initiative, established by the chancellor to become a major international center for human-centered design, with the focus upon design as a way of thinking, especially dealing with a people-centered approach to complex sociotechnical systems.
How pizza could save the world
On a recent Hawaiian vacation, Don stayed at a truly luxurious resort. It wasn’t his style. He couldn’t help but notice the contrast with the poorer sections of the island where locals lived and tourists rarely ventured. Is this the planet’s future? Two distinct cultures, one of isolated wealth and excess, the other of poverty? When we discussed this question, Don couldn’t help but mention he’d also found amazing pizza on the island.
Design a Better World, with Don Norman
UX Cake kicks the season off with a fascinating conversation about changing the world with design, with Don Norman.
"There are really creative people in all these communities. And there aren’t enough experts to go around anyway. What we want to do is go around the world and find these people and facilitate, help them, empower them, give them expert knowledge and allow them to decide how to apply that to their problems." - Don Norman
"There are really creative people in all these communities. And there aren’t enough experts to go around anyway. What we want to do is go around the world and find these people and facilitate, help them, empower them, give them expert knowledge and allow them to decide how to apply that to their problems." - Don Norman
Announcing the Norman Design Fund!
UC San Diego Design Lab is excited to announce the Norman Design Fund. The Norman Design Fund provides small, rapid allocations of funds to support student activities in human-centered design (HCD). The goal of the fund is to enhance and encourage human-centered design work by UC San Diego students. Applications are open to ALL students at UC San Diego.
Don Norman’s Favorite Book, Famous UC writers on their favorite books
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
“The first sentence in this book is ‘There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.’ I read this book in the 1980s, and it had a huge impact..."
“The first sentence in this book is ‘There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.’ I read this book in the 1980s, and it had a huge impact..."
Design Lab Anthropology Graduate Student Wins Prestigious CRES Award
Peering into our culture can reveal new insights about how multidisciplinary teams solve socio-technical problems. Maya Azarova, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, mentored by Professor Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, recently received the Chancellor’s Research Excellence Scholarship (CRES) to investigate…
Viasat Invests in UC San Diego’s Design Lab
Viasat gift helps researchers provide guidance to engineering organizations on ways to implement a ‘design thinking’ approach to drive global and societal impacts The Design Lab at the University of California San Diego, under the direction of founder Don Norman,…
Design at UCSD Students Reflect on Summer Internships
This past summer, several members of the Design at UCSD leadership team landed incredible internships alongside leading innovators in industry. We’d like to highlight their experiences and share a glimpse of how they spent their summer developing new skills and excelling professionally.…
Design Lab and MIT Media Lab Join Forces to Organize a Design·a·Hack·a·thon
No hackathon would be complete without cardboard prototypes strewn about the room, laptop screens glowing with code, and the edgy excitement of teams working against the clock. Hackathons concentrate the efforts of talented, highly motivated participants eager to develop new…