Dave Malouf

Dave Malouf, IDSA | Savannah College of Art and Design

WORK

Savannah College of Art and Design
Professor
January 2009 – Present 

Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
Founder
September 2003 – Present

Motorola
Sr. User Experience Designer
November 2006 – December 2008

WORDS

"I feel blessed to have come to design in a serpentine path. I came to be a designer after being an anthropologist. Not only did I get the obvious dose of social sciences like anthropology, sociology and psychology, but I got a strong does of linguistics, history, folklore, and political science as well. Other peers of mine also studied economics, philosophy and rhetoric.

When I moved to design, I noticed there were a lot of folks like myself who came to design through a similar social science or humanities path. I noticed these folks had something different. They were able to add value through the act of framing. Framing is what I consider to be the most important skill of a business person and if you are involved in design you are involved in business."

Excerpted from Design is for humans and so we learn the humanities.