First Thursdays (Jan 2022) – IDSA HTX
Thursday, January 6, 2022 to catch up on all things design. Sign up to get monthly invites if you’re not already! Nico Nikos 2520 Montrose Blvd Houston, TX 77005
Thursday, January 6, 2022 to catch up on all things design. Sign up to get monthly invites if you’re not already! Nico Nikos 2520 Montrose Blvd Houston, TX 77005
Ring in the holiday cheer with IDSA Chicago! Your ticket includes pitchers of beer and unlimited pizza! Diversey River Bowl 2211 West Diversey Parkway Chicago, IL 60647
In this reoccurring series, we will share insights, information, case studies, models, and methodologies, amongst a variety of other assets, to help inform and inspire you in the professional practice of Design Management. This series will host a variety of events, including learning from leading practitioners in this field, facilitate knowledge sharing amongst the event […]
Thursday, December 2, 2021 to catch up on all things design. Sign up to get monthly invites if you’re not already! Torchys Tacos 2400 Times Blvd Houston, TX 77005
Section experts (Transportation and Mobility, Design Management, and Materials and Processes) share information about their communities. Take a deeper dive into the Industrial Designer’s Society of America’s (IDSA) Sections! Experts from the Transportation and Mobility, Design Management, and Materials and Processes Sections, connect the dots between Industrial Design and their topical communities. Participants will have […]
The Design Management Section will take participants on a journey to enlighten them in the professional practice of Design Management, and the Materials and Processes Section will share how material choices enable sustainable design. Recorded on November 17, 2021. https://vimeo.com/656751464
Industry speakers, professional workshops, portfolio reviews, and more come to James Madison University for the 2021 IDSA JMU Conference.
IDSA Cleveland will host an evening celebrating the great design that has been developed all around our region. It will be an evening of community building, networking, and inspirational content for area industrial designers. This will be a catered event and will be hosted in Moen’s recently renovated first floor atrium and design studio. We will […]
Anouk Groen will inspire us with a cross-industry look at Color, Materials and Finishes in design trends for products and mobility. Industrial designers are called upon to design products, services and experiences for uncertain futures. How can they predict the colors, materials and trends in advance? Recorded on November 9, 2021 https://vimeo.com/654946684
IDSA Seattle is focused on fostering relationships and building a more connected PNW design community. Students and young professionals play a big role in our chapter. As we welcome in the school year, our board will present 2-3 slides each about their experiences in different fields of design to inspire and help students understand the […]
Likely, you’ve heard that storytelling at work is good for leaders, good for marketers, good for trainers. Is it good for industrial designers and engineers? Come see for yourself. Rance will facilitate a lively discussion that may change the way you communicate at work forever. Get started with four questions that define the purpose of […]
Exploring how the mind works, and its implications for the design of controls, displays, IFU's, information architecture design, and more. Many product designers have never taken a university-level class on cognitive human factors or cognitive science. This set of one-hour workshops is designed to remedy that. It provides a crash course on how the mind […]
Join Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook and The Sketchnote Workbook as he shares the concepts that make visual thinking a fast, effective communication power tool. This workshop is designed to develop and to strengthen your visual thinking abilities so you can use simple shapes with words to emphasize speed and idea sharing. We’ll […]
On Thursday, October 14, 2021, IDSA’s Executive Director presented the annual membership meeting and year in review. During this session, Chris Livaudais, IDSA provided a look back on our 2020 performance as well as updates on how the association has been navigating our journey through the COVID-19 pandemic. This annual event is an important moment to share information with IDSA membership in a […]
The IDSA Portland Chapter and IDME will be hosting a "fireside" chat with Todd Amelung on “How Not to Make A Fortune In The Design World,” a designer's retrospective on how a different business model could have achieved a better outcome. Come grab a drink and join the discussion on lessons he took from the process, the […]
Award-winning designer, educator and author Wolfgang Joensson will take us on journey through time to look at iconic products. What makes a product iconic? Looking at historic memorable design objects, and analysing the roots of their impact on the consumer’s perception, Wolfgang Joensson will talk about what can be done to create artefacts that will […]
Join the IDSA Atlanta Chapter for the return of Brew Crew at Round Trip Brewing Co. We hope to see you there and learn more about what you have been up to and what you hope to see in the future.
Come grab a beer and enjoy the last of the warm weather with your ID friends
Join us for drinks as we soak up some of the last warm Milwaukee weather and discuss what’s in store for IDSA at the local level!
In this reoccurring series, we will hear from leading professionals who will share stories of their design journey, the challenges they have encountered and overcome, how they have managed to progress their careers. Recorded September 30, 2021 https://vimeo.com/624820869
International Design Conference (IDC) 2021 - September 22-23, 2021 - Virtual Event
The Gold, Silver, and Bronze IDEA 2021 winners are announced at this live during this virtual event. https://vimeo.com/showcase/9891224/video/613097480
Presentation of the 2021 IDSA Award recipients. https://vimeo.com/612897816
Did you know that the average recruiter spends less than 5 seconds reviewing your resume? And that’s only if it makes it past the automated resume systems filters! Creating an effective cover letter and resume is more than just choosing a great layout and beautiful font. Just like good user-centered design, you need to understand […]
How can design disrupt systems? Join Ranee to explore the important role of collaboration & the narrative of lived experiences with design. Recorded on September 14. 2021 https://vimeo.com/606646161
IDSA Los Angeles Chapter - Get together with industrial designers to share drinks, sketches, and casual networking every second Thursday!
What does designing for 'one planet living’ look like? Guests Morag Gamble, Founder of Permaculture Education Institute, and Chhaya Bhanti, Founder and Creative Director at VERTIVER, a women-owned social enterprise, have deep expertise in this area. Learn from their inspiring journeys designing with communities for a more sustainable, fair, and cleaner world, through their diverse work encompassing six continents on ecological design […]
Calling all creatives! Do you ever feel like you just can’t get to that next phase of your design? Or that you have run out of cool ideas to keep you motivated? You’re not alone! Join us on Aug 30th at 11.30 am (MST) for an online workshop where Abby Wilkymacky, Founder of Mindflower Studio, […]
Our panelists from Peak Design will share their experiences in manufacturing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderated by Fran Wang Panelists Olivia Eaton Adrienne Rowell Jamie Erickson Rachel Roberts Recorded on August 18, 2021 https://vimeo.com/622473633
Explore Chicago with us every month at Coaster Break! Each month, we are meeting at a local brewery for some light networking and design-oriented conversations. This month, we're at Replay in Lincoln Park. Come meet the other members of the largest IDSA Chapter in the nation! Coaster Break is typically the third Thursday of the […]
Please join us for a lunchtime chat on August 12th (12pm-1pm PST). Linsey Nancarrow of Indigo Slate will examine the problems with today's approach to sustainability (focusing on individual actions that demand extra time, effort, and money) and make the case for systemic change through well designed sustainable experiences. When we look at sustainability from […]
Founded by an award winning team with over 20 years of combined product design experience, Hatch Duo designs compelling product experiences for growing brands. Hatch Duo is a local design consultancy located in Sunnyvale, CA and we are super excited to have them come speak about their experiences starting a new design studio and how […]
We're holding the first event for the LA IDSA chapter 8/11/2021 from 11am to 1pm. We'll be on the beach near lifeguard tower #27. Bagels provided, feel free to bring anything else you like. This is informal, come and stop by for a minute or the whole time! The hosts are the new LA IDSA […]
Stuck in your ID career and not sure how to level up? Wishing you could make more connections across the industry? Then join us for the latest IDSA Cross Chapter Collaboration event featuring IDSA organizers from Columbus, Dallas Fort Worth, Denver, Seattle, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati, and more! We'll share tips on how to grow […]
Design Research Section Event: Working with Questions from IDSA on Vimeo.
Design trends come and go, ranging from wood paneling to colorful transparent plastics, and skeuomorphism to flat user interfaces. While we can visually see changes in aesthetic taste, how about […]
A Virtual Round Table Discussion about the shortage of healthcare professionals in the U.S. Recorded on June 30, 2021. https://vimeo.com/580879221
The future of mobility is facing a deep change in consumer behavior. Getting from point A to B is no longer about a having a car, taking the train, or a plane. It’s about all of them together, with the extra ingredients of sustainability needs, the development of autonomous driving, the relevance of experiences over […]
Join the IDSA Design History Section for this double event, which includes a screening and online discussion! Acclaimed Industrial Designer, Carl Gustav Magnusson, IDSA shares a colorful, informative video presentation, which takes viewers through the chronology of the scientific and cultural influences on design . https://vimeo.com/564180351
Join us Thursday, June 24th when Herman's Francisco shares about his journey in design and becoming a transportation designer at autonomous vehicle company, Zoox . Herman Francisco is a naturally […]
Come join us for our first event on June 16th! We will be playing games and networking.
Wish you knew just what companies are looking for when hiring? We’re hosting a virtual Q&A Discussion for students and young designers to come together to hear seasoned professionals from various industries share their insights and answer your questions. We will begin the session by asking the design professionals curated questions about what they look […]
This is a chance to meet our chapter officers to discuss how together we can engage and connect our design community. Recorded on June 8, 2021 https://vimeo.com/572645804
Are you underemployed or looking for a new gig and not sure where to start? Are you an employer or hiring manager looking for your next candidate? This panel will provide inspiration for those who have been affected in the employment realm. Panelists: Joshua Hoffeld, Trent Garner, Darren Kanthal, Alice Jandristis, Bailey Van Etten, David […]
Join us for part 2 of our conversation with Joel Delman who will cover (almost) everything you might need to know related to Design Patents and Intellectual Property protection
Host Başak Altan, IDSA talked with guests Anne Cocquyt, Startup Founder of GUILD, and Merry (Rheim) Constantino, IDSA, Founder of ProductLogic LLC, about how data bias impacts female entrepreneurship. As mentors and influencers in the product innovation space, Anne and Merry shared perspectives of their own entrepreneurship journeys, along with advice to empower women in design and business. https://vimeo.com/555388071
Andrew Maier leads a workshop on Mental Modeling, an essential research analysis method that was created and popularized by Indi Y. Recorded May 17, 2021 https://vimeo.com/555402678
Not so long ago, the only acceptable women’s health topics at conferences and investor meetings were pregnancy and breastfeeding. Fertility, menstruation, menopause, and masturbation–huge parts of a woman's life–were at best considered fringe and at worst taboo. However, thanks to a growing group of founders and companies on a mission to move these topics into […]
The female body is capable of doing amazing things. From menstruation to childbirth to breastfeeding and beyond, women’s bodies and their functions should be respected and celebrated. Let's be clear though: the experience of being a woman isn’t easy at all, and a lot of this is largely due to bias and blindspots that affect […]
Join us for the first in our 2 part series, where we discuss all things related to contracts. Whether you're an independent designer, or you're working for an agency, Joel will cover (almost) everything you might need to know related to these often overwhelming, but critical documents. Recorded May 20, 2021 https://vimeo.com/showcase/8499612/video/554263066
The age of digital health promises many upsides: phones that can connect us to our PCP for a quick video chat, apps to track literally every data point of our lives, and wearables that provide interventions for when those data points go askew. Despite the obvious gains, there are some elements of our increasingly digital […]
Join us for this engaging event hosted by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)’s Section leaders! Sections are community groups of IDSA members with expertise and interest in specific areas of industrial design. There are many segments of the industrial design profession, ranging from digital to furniture to medical design. Our members are experts […]
In the Built for This series, our guests share how they identified their superpowers and now play to those strengths. Since women often experience imposter syndrome and pressure to conform, we want to highlight the stories of women whose celebration of their uniqueness in turn makes them a perfect fit for design. Women who know […]
In place of its traditional in-person May events showcasing the work of design students, WantedDesign presents the WantedDesign Online International Schools Show, May 12 – June 12, 2021. The virtual destination for discovering new ideas and young talent worldwide will feature work from more than 150 students from 15 international design schools in a lively and […]
A networking event for anyone looking to connect with the Industrial Design community in the Greater New York area.
Our second virtual networking event for anyone looking to connect with the Industrial Design community in the Greater New York area.
Join us as we put a spotlight on some of the critical cross-functional roles designers interface with to bring compelling new solutions to market. Together we will discuss how design […]
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the one-year mark in NYC last month. It has changed the world, our lives, and the NYC community. However, we’re the designers who use a human-centered […]
Free, virtual event - Celebrate the Best-in-Show of the 2021 UC DAAPworks Exhibition, sponsored by IDSA Cincinnati & Scott Models The University of Cincinnati College of Design Architecture Art and Planning […]
Virtual conversation with: Jasmin Druffner Carol Shu Kellen Hennessy
Rhino has now streamlined the design process by enabling real-time, high quality renders while designing. Unlike anything before it, the new visual render engine was designed around today’s hardware systems […]
Join us for an afternoon of lively and thought-provoking discussion about various aspects of design patents, hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Get insights from USPTO design examiners and managers, design patent practitioners, and industrial designers. No CLE credit is offered for attendance. The event will take place virtually on Thursday, […]
The mission of the IDSA Cleveland chapter is to serve the networking, career development and professional development needs of industrial designers in the Cleveland area. Additionally, the chapter supports the […]
Guests Ode Ozlem Dessauer-Siegers, Design Lead – UX CoE at VodafoneZiggo, and Dr. Geke van Dijk, Co-founder and Director of STBY at REACH Global Design Research, shared with host Başak Altan, IDSA both their professional experiences in service design and why this matters to industrial designers who are looking to contribute to strategic value for their clients’ offerings on a larger scale. […]
Join Amanda Huynh, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, Ana Mengote Baluca, Independent Designer at lowercase innovation, Anson Cheung, Studio Director/Partner at Bould Design, Danielle Chen, Senior UX Designer at EY Design Studio, and Michelle Lee-Schmidt, Senior Portfolio Director at IDEO for a roundtable discussion where they deconstruct and analyze the role of […]
Rhino is one of the most widely used CAD tools for Industrial Designers. IDSA Seattle is proud that Robert McNeel & Associates are based in our very own backyard. Please […]
A journey to embracing and leveraging empathy to find truly user-centric design solutions. https://vimeo.com/575912631
5 speakers get 5 minutes each share their work from home hacks. Featuring: Adam Wells Abby Ambrogi Stephanie Lewis Peter Kaltenbach Mark Gilson Recorded April 1, 2021 https://vimeo.com/575938610
Johannes Lampela, Director of Industrial Design and Cheryl Pelly, Lead CMF designer (Designworks, A BMW group company) will present on transportation design, mobility and the role of customer experience with regard to design and CMF. The event will be 20-30 minutes with 15-20 minutes Q & A afterwards. Recorded on March 31, 2021. https://vimeo.com/showcase/8720507/video/583427393
Help generate solutions for circular design challenges in a fast-paced, simultaneously visualized ideathon. Challenge topics will include the design with circular materials, electronic product longevity, reusable packaging, sourcing credible carbon […]
Join us Thursday, March 25th for a conversation with Phnam and Mardis Bagley about materials, sustainability, and Nonfiction's partnership with Material ConneXion. Designers play important role in the lifecycle of a product. That's why we invited the co-founders of Nonfiction to tell us about their role in materials and sustainability as the leaders of […]
The Getting It Made Deep Dive is built to highlight the critical stages of the industrial design process related to bringing a product out of the conceptual stages and into the marketplace.
Join IDSA Philly on Friday, March 5th for this year’s Student Merit Award presentations. We hope to see you there! Our presenters are senior industrial design students from Jefferson and Drexel. DM us on Instagram or LinkedIn for the Zoom link.
Virtual discussion with design professionals from the local IDSA Denver community. Recorded March 5, 2021 https://vimeo.com/showcase/8667007/video/575935728
Our first IDME/IDSA Portland event! Let's start off by discussing success stories detailing how design and innovation has traditionally helped our local economy and how it is now being applied to local industries in new ways.
Join a panel of Cleveland area design experts as they explore the use of design methodologies in business. This free, virtual event will discuss the past, present, and future state of design maturity in varying industries. Our three panelists will speak on their experiences of championing design within their own companies and with clients. They’ll […]
KeyShot is popular amongst designers for their intuitive and powerful visualization software. We will sit down to learn about new features from how to rapidly animate a product using Keyframe Animation, rendering unreal fabrics using Real Cloth 2.0, to lighting environments from sunrise to sunset. Beyond rendering, we’ll learn about new capabilities from AR, VR, […]
Donald Burlock, Jr., IDSA, author of “Superhuman by Design,” Ayana Patterson, IDSA, Leader on IDSA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, and Jasmine Kent, IDSA, Apparel Designer at Under Armour, shared their stories and journeys to becoming industrial designers with host Başak Altan, IDSA. https://vimeo.com/516933834
A discussion on design’s influence on democracy and politics, as well as its social implications, with host Başak Altan, IDSA (design strategist, educator and future thinker) and uests Lisa Kay Solomon, Designer in Residence at Stanford d.school, and Jeroen van Erp, professor at Delft University of Technology and co-founder of Fabrique, Netherlands. https://vimeo.com/516906793
A conversation with Le’Spencer Walker, Sr. Operations Manager + Product Engineer at Target Recorded on February 3, 2021 https://vimeo.com/575909907
Seattle Women in Design's inaugural event navigates fostering our own creativity amidst the unknown with Kay Kim and Clare Duffy. As designers, we’re expected to have an endless supply of creativity, but how do you cultivate a source for this? For our two speakers, it comes from exposure to new ideas and willingness to show […]
Jeff Smith and Gerard Furbershaw Co-Founded LUNAR Design in 1984 and lead the firm together as its CEO and COO respectively, for 30 years. Partnering together with a symbiotic balance of complementary skills and personalities they accomplished a great deal with their design firm. When LUNAR was acquired in 2015, Wired the magazine reported first […]
Hosted by Shruti Parikh, IDSA, Associate Director, Takeda Pharmaceuticals with: Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group, Inc. Peter Minor, Innovation Lead, Carbon180 https://vimeo.com/507388386
What is sustainability? How can we design better futures? Studies have shown that following major economic downturns like the one caused by the COVID -19 Pandemic, the rate of resource consumption and environmental degradation increases significantly. With scientists predicting that we only have a decade left before irreversible climate damage, how can designers create products […]
A casual networking virtual conversation with Denver area designers.
