From Pabini Gabriel-Petit (pabini@ixdg.org), IxDG Face-to-Face Co-Coordinator:
IxDG, the AIGA Center for Brand Experience, AIGA-ED, and BayDUX are co-sponsoring an event on December 8:
The Future of Digital Product Design
Dirk Knemeyer will speak about the present and future of digital product design. Following Dirk's presentation, professionals working in various aspects of digital product design will participate in what should be a lively panel discussion on this topic. In addition to Dirk Knemeyer,panelists include Neil Day, Pabini Gabriel-Petit, James Leftwich, and Luke Wroblewski. Frank Ramirez will moderate the discussion.
Every attendee will receive a free copy of the newly published book, The Dictionary of Brand, from the AIGA Center for Brand Experience.
For further details, including time and place, please go to the BayDUX website.
If you'll be in the San Francisco Bay Area on December 8, we hope to see you there.
BOB JACOBSON is fascinated by the experience of experience. A planner and technologist, Bob has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from UCLA. He's been a policy researcher, technology CEO, science writer, and consultant. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied cellular telephony's impacts on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic Circle. Bob edited Information Design (MIT Press 2000) and is now writing a book on the theory and practice of creating edifying, transformative experiences.
PAULA THORNTON says, "Understanding human behavior (economics), optimizing interactions (design) and facilitating conversations (markets), are the means to achieve strategic differentiation. This is the focus of our discipline. It is not a 'nice to have'‚ and is not, like documentation once was, an afterthought. It is the means by which to start a strategic discussion and the means by which to drive a tactical initiative. All design should be evidence-based."
