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  • Design students sit around a table working sketching on yellow paper

    Machine Learning for Speculative Futures Workshop

    Last spring, I  led a workshop at The Maryland Institute College of Art focusing on Machine Learning + Interface Design. Using a modified version of Stuart Candy's Thing from the Future game,…
    Machine Learning, Workshops/Lectures
  • Interested in discussing machine learning & design with your class? Here’s a two part lecture.

    Here is a two part lecture series to initiate a discussion of machine learning with your design students. I'm happy to lead a Q&A followup if you contact me. Please forgive that…
    Machine Learning, Workshops/Lectures
  • What Does It Mean to Put the User at the Center of Your Process?

    Last week I lead a UX design workshop with the University of Georgia's Graphic Design Program. We explored what it means to apply UX methods to understand user needs and then scope…
    Workshops/Lectures
  • A Bag of Beacons: Enabling Personal Mobility

    This fall, the NC State graphic design junior studio spent two weeks collaborating with the SAS accessibility team. The goal: remove barriers to independent personal mobility for people with visual impairments or…
    Inclusive Design, Workshops/Lectures
  • What Does That Say? A Low Vision Design Workshop at Drake

    A few years ago I traveled to Des Moines to work with graphic design students at Drake University. We spent two days discussing, concepting, prototyping and testing data visualizations for low vision…
    Inclusive Design, Workshops/Lectures
  • NCSU Graphic Design Summer Studio 2016

    NC State Summer Design for High School Students A few years ago I taught the NCSU Design Lab Graphic Design Summer Studio. This week-long immersive experience introduces high school students to the…
    Workshops/Lectures
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    VR Prototyping at Moogfest 2016

    Dr. Derek Ham and I lead a Virtual Reality Prototyping Workshop at Moogfest this spring. Using VR to prototype for the real world?? Think again. Let's use the real world to prototype…
    Workshops/Lectures
  • VR Workshop at Hunt Library

    Dreaming in VR Prototyping Workshop Workshop Leaders Derek Ham, Associate Professor of Art & Design College of Design, NC State University Helen Armstrong, Professor of Graphic & Experience Design College of DesignNC State…
    Workshops/Lectures
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    Congrats on Your Inaugural Year, AIGA Louisville!

    In December AIGA Louisville celebrated their inaugural year with a design competition: The Show 2014. I was honored to be their keynote speaker. My first reaction to the invitation: "What a great opportunity for…
    Workshops/Lectures
  • WordBuild: A Workshop at Pratt in Participatory Design

    Participatory Design, over the last 40 years, has begun to infiltrate mainstream commerce and culture in the US. Increasingly our always-on, instant feedback society of users demands a voice in the products,…
    Workshops/Lectures
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