Events Design Field Notes: Amir Elabbady, UX Research Isn’t As Scary As You Think Sponsor: Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Zoom link Join us for another semester of Design Field Notes—an ongoing lecture series part of our course DES INV 95. …
Events UX@Google The MDes is hosting Katy Strong and Tesh Goyal, two UC Berkeley alums, who will discuss the importance of ux @ Google and how it is an essential part of the company. …
People Susanne Pierce Maddux I am an industrial designer based in San Francisco. I started my design journey with a background in visual arts and a BS degree in Industrial Design from the University of The Arts in Philadelphia. …
News Spring Mentors Each semester, MDes students get the opportunity to learn from and interact with various invited guest speakers and mentors. This spring, Design Frameworks and Capstone Studio have a great line-up of guests with backgrounds ranging from critical theory to robotic fabrication to XR technologies to strategic foresight….
Student Works DESINV 211: Designing Emerging Technologies (FA21) Designing Emerging Technologies I (DET I) begins with an intensive pre-module on digital fabrication and Raspberry Pi technologies. Afterwards, the course is separated into four “blocks”: vision, augmentation, and the body, …
News Winter 2021 MDes Showcase Recap INAUGURAL MDES SHOWCASE On Friday, December 10th, 2021, the first and second cohorts of MDes students enjoyed a full-day at Jacobs Hall as part of the inaugural MDes Showcase. …
Events Design Field Notes: Design Strategy for Technology Innovation – Future-Proofing an Engineering Company Into a Learning Organization: Sofia Brazzola, Brand and Marketing Manager, Sennheiser Sponsor: Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Zoom link here Join us for another semester of Design Field Notes—an ongoing lecture series part of our course DES INV 95. …
Student Works colloquium podcast Design Despite Disciplines: Season 1 Given the opportunity, designers will endlessly debate. Perhaps this is because different practices of design fundamentally disagree. We can plainly see this in the hotly contested differences that delineate design disciplines and movements, …
News CAREER OPPORTUNITY: Join our creative community! *CAREER OPPORTUNITY* The Jacobs Institute and the Berkeley MDes are looking to hire Creative Design Instructors to be part of the newly launched UC Berkeley MDes. We are seeking talented creative partitioners across a range of disciplines to teach fall and spring semester courses, …
People Hannah Bartolomea Bio I recently graduated from ASU where I had the opportunity to work in two research labs as a ux designer on multiple mixed reality experiences. I love to keep busy and I make sure that my life is never filled with a dull moment. …