The Design Lab Portfolio – Page 4 – design as a way of thinking

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Telestration: How Helena Mentis Applies Design Thinking to Surgery

April 3, 2018
Healthcare, Research, Uncategorized

https://youtu.be/cxsRDsnwpi4 Helena Mentis is the director of the Bodies in Motion Lab at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) with research spanning human-computer interaction (HCI), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) and medical informatics. During a recent visit to the Design Lab at…

Team behind Stroke Kinect Receives Funding

April 3, 2018
Healthcare, News

As part of the Frontier of Innovation Scholars Program (FISP —> http://research.ucsd.edu/fisp.html), the Stroke-Kinect proposal led by Design Lab faculty Nadir Weibel and colleagues in the engineering department and the school of medicine, was awarded $50,000 towards two graduate student awards…

Spotlight on Sheng-feng Qin: His take on Design from China to the UK and US

April 3, 2018
News

Sheng-feng Qin is a professor at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in the School of Design in Northeast England. His research spans everything from digital design with high-speed rail systems in China to crowdsourcing-based and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW)…

SAP collaborates with Design Lab students

April 3, 2018
Academics, Business, News, Research, UCSD Community

In December, UC San Diego Design Lab students wrapped up two major projects with SAP, a German multinational software corporation at the center of today’s business and technology revolution. With regional offices in 130 countries and over 335 customers in…

Don Norman debates John Maeda of Automattic, the company behind WordPress

April 3, 2018
News

In January, world-renown executive, designer and technologist, John Maeda, and a team of 25 people from Automattic joined Don Norman and the UC San Diego Design Lab for a spirited debate. Automattic is a web development corporation that powers about…

Design Lab Heads Downtown to Present New Strategies and Program to Take on Society’s Most Daunting Challenges

April 3, 2018
Design Community, News, Research, Social Computing

Last week, UC San Diego Design Lab Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science Steven Dow and postdoctoral fellow Narges Mahyar spoke at the Collaboratory for Downtown Innovation’s (CDI) Game Changer series to introduce a new strategy and program, "Design San Diego."…

Autodesk teams up with David Kirsh and the Design Lab on Dreamcatcher, a Next-Generation Design Tool

March 30, 2018
Healthcare, News, Process

The Design Lab recently teamed up with Autodesk, a California-based corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. The first step in the partnership includes work by Dr. David Kirsch and his team on…

Adobe Selects Design Lab Student Ailie Fraser as a 2017 Adobe Fellow

March 30, 2018
Business, Large-scale Learning, News

UC San Diego Design Lab PhD Student Ailie Fraser has been selected as a 2017 Adobe Research Fellow. The fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students anywhere in the world carrying out exceptional research in computer science. This year, Adobe is awarding fellowships…

Don Norman speaks on The Future of Design at the New School of Architecture

March 27, 2018
Healthcare, News

As part of the Design Lab's graduate course work on Crowdsourcing taught by Steven Dow, students explored models —such as paid micro-work, citizen science, crisis informatics, and games with a purpose— to bring large groups of people together to make something…

Don Norman speaks on The Future of Design at the New School of Architecture

March 27, 2018
News

A crowd gathers as Don Norman prepares to speak on the Future of Design at the New School of Architecture. At the New School of Architecture in Downtown San Diego, Don Norman, Director of the UC San Diego Design Lab, spoke…