Many designers want to design for social equity. But what does it look like to design with a community, instead of “for” them? Through an interactive design challenge, participants will practice a number of tools developed to build equitable partnerships between designers and the communities they work with. The tools explore how to approach a
RTL languages — including Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian — comprise one of the fastest growing linguistic demographics in the world. Understand design issues with fonts; icons and user interfaces; directional bias in motion and time; dialects and diglossic code-switching; and web/mobile layout considerations. Learn about factors in data visualization, scanning, and hierarchy. Our case study
Like every other human being on the planet we share, designers are part of the social contract. By choosing to be a designer you are choosing to affect the people who come in contact with your work. Learn how to tell if your work will hurt or help those people and how to measure social
Named a top destination by Wired magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle, the Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco explores the future of making things. During your visit, you will start with a guided gallery tour of exhibits which showcase pioneering design and inventive engineering. Following the tour, you will experience what it’s
Curry Stone Foundation and The Dogwood Conspiracy present Goodnight, Resilience. This will be an evening not to be missed. It will include a lively debate style panel around the issues of contemporary resilience and design with welcomed audience participation. Panelists: Emily Pilloton, Girls Garage Prescott Reavis, Asian Neighborhood Design Amanda Brown-Stevens, Resilient By Design Kyle
How are designers changing cities? A few decades ago you needed to be an urban planner or an architect to have an impact at the scale of an entire city. Today, product designers are helping create innovative product platforms that actively change our relationship with where we live. How does this affect our roles within
Named a top destination by Wired magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle, the Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco explores the future of making things. During your visit, you will start with a guided gallery tour of exhibits which showcase pioneering design and inventive engineering. Following the tour, you will experience what it’s
Named a top destination by Wired magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle, the Autodesk Gallery at One Market in San Francisco explores the future of making things. During your visit, you will start with a guided gallery tour of exhibits which showcase pioneering design and inventive engineering. Following the tour, you will experience what it’s
Join us for coffee, bagels and answers to all of your burning questions about architecture! We’ll start the morning with a quick tour around the office, and then we’ll hear from our partner and principal Jim Westover about our office culture, projects and opportunities. Job captain Gustavo Bermudez and designer Parvathy Nair will share advances
Co-design practitioners are surrounded by people who desire to meaningfully co-create. It can be challenging to deliver when colleagues are overextended and community members are asked to take time away from work, family, and daily life to participate. Further, issues of intersectionality emerge when co-design facilitators and participants represent minorities in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
Join Creativity Explored and In/Visible Talks for an evening of conversation and an art opening. In/Visible Talks Cofounder Dava Guthmiller will moderate a discussion between Creativity Explored artist Gerald Wiggins, Creativity Explored instructor Gilles Combet, and creative director/designer Arianna Orland about the process, inspiration, and challenges behind art and design and where the two meet.
Design holds the power to transform and drive progress, especially in industries that have historically been underserved by design due to regulation or other intimidating challenges. But the value of design’s role in this transformation is still underappreciated by the broader community. At Blend, design is at the center and forefront of the transformation we’re
Design Systems are more than simply toolkits for modular User Interfaces. They establish a foundational consistency across entire companies around how products address the needs of vastly different platforms. They provide a schema for accessible design that considers everyone that might benefit from using a product. As companies scale from 10 users to 10 million
Design shapes the experience people have when they use a product, and it can often dictate ultimate success or failure. For products focused on creating social impact, failure is not an option. In this panel, we will discuss considerations and best practices that are vital when designing and creating products for social good. Our panel
Cosmo stands unique in the industry for bridging fusion of soft materials, onto hard surfaces, with embedded smart technologies. The Cosmo team specializes in bonding and fusing different elements together. Cosmo is a global company with design and prototyping labs in Hong Kong and San Francisco, in addition to production facilities in China. The company
The San Francisco Bay Area is recognized globally as the center of the Tech Industry. From hardware to software development and Artificial Intelligence to Autonomous Vehicles, the leading edge of R&D is based in the Bay Area. A by-product of the region becoming an innovation hub has been a continuing rise in employment, net inward
*Hosted by the Kaiser Permanente Design Consultancy* In health care and other complex environments, moving design out of the “innovation lab” and into the real world is the clearest path to impact, and the only path to real change. How do we design solutions for the complicated, messy, highly-regulated and deeply imperfect health care system
Blind and visually impaired communities have little to no access to graphic information that would help them learn about their surroundings. Braille and tactile maps have proven useful, however, historically these maps have been difficult and costly to design, manufacture, and distribute. Tactile Maps Automated Production (TMAP) is a tool for on-demand creation of tactile
Design carries lasting power to affect the way people experience and think about the world around them. Designers, then, have a great responsibility to make conscious, thoughtful choices in the work they do—whether it’s graphic design, product design, design strategy, etc. But even with the best of intentions, all humans are subject to implicit bias—which
At this mixer, you’ll learn about the emergence of code-free web design tools and how they are being used today by designers to create custom digital experiences, ranging from interactive prototypes to large-scale websites. The Brandcast team will give a product demo, walk through a case study with The Craftsman Agency, and go over some
Lately “diversity” seems to be the word on everyone’s lips. Industries ranging from finance, technology, education and transportation, have been having discussions around how can companies bring more diversity into our workplaces and projects and more and more back into the built environment. But what is diversity without inclusion? The Bay Area has a legacy