The Design Lab Portfolio – design as a way of thinking

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CommunityCrit Gives Community Members a Newfound Voice

April 28, 2018
Civic, Design Community, Design News, News, Research, Social Computing

Actively engaging the public in urban design planning is essential to both establishing a strong sense of community and nurturing ownership of that community’s prosperity. Unfortunately, participation in such a process is often challenging for the general public due to…

Students Participate in Interaction Design Final Project Showcase

April 28, 2018
Academics, Design News, News, UCSD Community, UCSD Events

In March, UC San Diego faculty, students, and industry guests gathered to experience the final project presentations of over 200 students enrolled in the university’s notable Interaction Design course, taught by Professor Scott Klemmer of The Design Lab. Over a…

Eric Hekler Joins Design Lab Team

April 3, 2018
Design Community, Healthcare, News, Research, UCSD Community

UC San Diego Design Lab is excited to welcome Eric Hekler, an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Public Health at UC San Diego. Hekler hails from Arizona State University where he was an Associate Professor in the…

Design at UCSD Students Visit Leading Silicon Valley Companies

April 3, 2018
Design Community, News, UCSD Community

Design thinking and user-centered design continue to rapidly gain traction across a diversity of fields. As such, it is extremely important that students are equipped with the design tools necessary to succeed in industry today. The leadership team of Design…

Design Lab’s Amy Fox Awarded Gordon Research Conference Visionary Grant

April 3, 2018
Active Data Visualization, News, Research

Emerging developments in data visualization, the practice of visually communicating data to convey patterns and trends, transcend a variety of fields including health, business, design, science, and education. With competing definitions and applications across multiple disciplines, the question quickly becomes:…

How DIY Designers are Impacting Healthcare

April 3, 2018
Design News, Healthcare, News

#WeAreNotWaiting is the social media movement of folks in the diabetes community who have come together to hack their own health; they’re developing platforms and apps and cloud-based solutions, and reverse-engineering existing, commercial products to help people with diabetes better…

Improving Senior Care Through Geriatric Emergency Department Research

April 3, 2018
Healthcare, News

Geriatric emergency departments (GEDs) are specialized facilities designed to cater to the medical needs of the elderly. They are a relatively new trend in hospitals, yet little research has been done on their progress and evolution. In 2016, UC San…

UC San Diego Design Lab Joins FCC, NCI to Champion Critical Role of Broadband in Rural Cancer Care

April 3, 2018
Healthcare, News

By Tiffany Fox The Federal Communications Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force (C2HFCC) announced last week that the FCC and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) have joined forces, signing a memorandum of understanding to focus on how increasing broadband access and adoption in…

Design at Large Tackles Human-Centered Computational Tools

April 3, 2018
Academics, News

WHAT IS DESIGN@LARGE? A new wave of societal challenges, cultural values, and technological advancements is creating exciting opportunities for designers everywhere to make a global impact. Design at Large, a quarterly seminar series hosted by the UC San Diego Design…

Software Developers and Designers Risk Over-Automating Enterprises

April 3, 2018
News

View ZDNet Article Don Norman of Cognitive Science and the Design Lab argues for human-technology teamwork in a recent Research-Technology Management article, ZDNet reports. ZDNet also includes in its story a video in which Normans says “we want to design technology to be a…