Date: May 8, 2008 Speaker: Liz Bacon & Steve Calde — Devise & Cooper This full-day tutorial will teach students about the ways in which scenarios are both a crucial conceptual design and vital communication tool for successful ideation in the practice...
Date: May 7, 2008 Speaker: Liz Bacon & Steve Calde — Devise & Cooper Steve and Elizabeth, former colleagues at Cooper, will discuss using personas as a tool to develop product features and behaviors. They will explore pitfalls, misconceptions, and...
Date: April 9, 2008 Speaker: Gary Hirsch — On Your Feet Businesses crave new stuff. And they want it now. Product cycles shorten, competitors and information spreads faster and the consumer gets more demanding. Techniques from the world of...
Date: March 5, 2008 Speaker: Jon Marshall — Innovation Frameworks Originally designed to organize the fuzzy front end of new projects, the DC Cycle™ (an intuitive framework for moving toward well-researched designs and plans) has been elaborated over the past...
Date: February 7, 2008 Speaker: Brenda Laurel — California College of the Arts Participants will be asked to bring design briefs or general areas of interest. Together, we will look at several qualitative and representative methods and appropriate processes for...