Industrial Designers Society of America

IDSA PVD: Outsiders on the Inside Mini Conference - The Future of Womxn’s Health
2021-05-20 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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 mainstream, we’re finally making progress.
As the women’s health gold rush heats up and male-dominated VC’s and founders begin to cash-in, our challenge is to ensure that it’s women, femmes, and people with periods that continue to drive the conversation about the future of the industry.
For the last session of our 3-part conference series, we’ve invited four women on the front lines of the womxn’s health movement to share their experiences. From what it’s like to pitch a menopause wearable to a team of male investors, to the challenges of leading a culture shift and normalizing topics like menstruation and masturbation, our incredible panelists will be sharing their stories in this unfiltered and candid conversation.
This conversation is part of Loft’s Outsiders on the Insiders Mini Conference, a free, three-part event taking place on May 20th. The goal of these events is to provide access to important conversations and give a platform to unique perspectives and voices.
Jeanette Numbers is an experienced design thinker + leader based in Providence, RI. As Cofounder of Loft, Jeanette specializes in creating visually compelling, human-centered design solutions that are rooted in purpose and driven by research. Jeanette’s work spans dozens of global brands and a wide variety of industries. She’s had proven success both in and outside of the corporate environment, leading teams in strategic design thinking, digital and physical product design, and final product commercialization. Her career has taken her to New York, San Francisco, Boston, and finally to Providence, where Loft’s corporate headquarters are based. As a longtime champion for local mentorship and community-building, Jeanette is excited to build on her vision for a collaborative and authentic design culture as chair of the Providence IDSA chapter.
Amanda French is the co-founder and CEO of Emme, a healthtech company that is revolutionizing birth control. Emme invented the first smart, connected pill case for birth control pill management. Amanda has over a decade of experience bringing innovative products to the market with a particular focus on women’s health. One of the first innovations she helped develop was a product that facilitated the distribution of antiretrovirals to mothers in the developing world to prevent the rates of HIV transmission from mother to child postpartum. This product was recognized directly by Hilary Clinton and won USAID’s Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge. Prior to founding Emme, Amanda developed breakthrough heart valve technology as an R&D engineer with Edwards Lifesciences, where she also held roles in program management, manufacturing, and marketing through the Technical Development Program. She went on to develop state-of-the-art hearing aids at Earlens. She brings her prior experience of developing innovative medical technology to drive the advancement of innovation in women’s health at Emme. Amanda was a 2016-2017 Innovation Fellow at the Stanford-Byers Center for Biodesign, and a Ferolyn Fellow in 2018-2019 with the Fogarty Institute for Innovation. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University.
Elizabeth Gadza is the CEO of Embr Labs, a Boston-based wearables company that developed the Embr Wave – a wrist-worn, personal thermostat that improves sleep, relieves anxiety and helps with hot flashes. Prior to Embr Labs, Liz was a member of several founding teams including Doni, a fintech company, and Noteflight, a music technology company and has also worked at a number of Boston’s fastest growing companies, including m-Qube (acq. Verisign) and unicorn Art Technology Group (acq. Oracle). Liz began her career with Philips Consumer Electronics in the Netherlands, where she was responsible for driving innovation in several business divisions across multiple countries. Elizabeth received her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and International relations from UC Berkeley where she was also a member of the Women’s Varsity Soccer team. She also holds an International MBA from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands and an Executive Coaching degree from William James College. Elizabeth serves as a board member and advisor to several Boston-based startups in IoT, hardware and software.
Kristina Cahojova, CEO at Kegg. Kristina earned her double Master’s Degree in International Management and Business. Administration from CEMS in Europe. She is fluent in 5 languages thanks to her international study and work experience in Germany, Austria, Taiwan, Spain and the Czech Republic. For her first business venture, TailorMySuit, she was awarded as the Student Entrepreneur of 2011. She continued her career in London, where she led growth at AppyParking. After that, she joined the marketing team at Amazon and then moved to C2C marketing at eBay in San Jose, California. Inspired by struggles with tracking her fertility combining with her experiences in e-commerce, she realized that there is a demand for a certain product, which does not yet exist.
Ti Chang is a design entrepreneur and activist passionate about designing better products for women. She is the co-founder and VP of Design of CRAVE, a San Francisco-based company specializing in aesthetic pleasure products. Ti leads the design vision for the company’s full line of products which has won international design awards and has led CRAVE to mainstream partnerships with the likes of Nordstrom, MoMA Design Store, Standard Hotel, Goop, and Saint Laurent. Ti is credited with, and perhaps best known for, mainstreaming the category of sex jewelry with the introduction of the iconic Vesper necklace in 2014, one of the most celebrated and iconic pleasure products changing the conversation around pleasure. Its viral duality as both a public and private object has continued to create connections and conversations around normalizing pleasure — both supportive and powerful—in a way no other product has. In 2020, Ti co-founded Design Allyship to provide anyone with actionable resources to improve the condition of historically marginalized designers in the industrial & product design industry. She is the chair of Women in Design section of Industrial Designers Society of America, where she supports the community of industrial designers and women in design. She is also on the advisory board for San Francisco Design Week, Reimagine, and CRAVE Foundation for Women. Ti holds an M.A. in Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London and a B.S. in Industrial Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

IDSA PVD: Outsiders on the Inside Mini Conference - Destigmatize and Normalize: Womxn’s Health Products are Here to Stay
2021-05-20 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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 everything from the tampon tax and maternity leave to female contraception and pelvic health.
As women find ways to drive new conversations in the healthcare space there has been a push to develop solutions that make being in a female body a little bit easier. These efforts have led to a boom of innovative products entering the market made for women by women that challenge the status quo. Thanks to innovators like our four panelists, we’re entering a new era where the shame and stigma that used to come with talking about and purchasing womxn’s health products is being questioned and rooted out.
Over the course of this panel we’ll dive into what it’s like to create a uniquely female product in a male-dominated field, what inspired these female founders to step up and make a difference in the womxn’s health space, and so much more.
This conversation is part of Loft’s Outsiders on the Insiders Mini Conference, a free, three-part event taking place on May 20th. The goal of these events is to provide access to important conversations and give a platform to unique perspectives and voices.
Jeanette Numbers is an experienced design thinker + leader based in Providence, RI. As Cofounder of Loft, Jeanette specializes in creating visually compelling, human-centered design solutions that are rooted in purpose and driven by research. Jeanette’s work spans dozens of global brands and a wide variety of industries. She’s had proven success both in and outside of the corporate environment, leading teams in strategic design thinking, digital and physical product design, and final product commercialization. Her career has taken her to New York, San Francisco, Boston, and finally to Providence, where Loft’s corporate headquarters are based. As a longtime champion for local mentorship and community-building, Jeanette is excited to build on her vision for a collaborative and authentic design culture as chair of the Providence IDSA chapter.
Ana Lee is the technical co-founder of Lioness, the women-led sexual wellness company that built the world’s first and only smart vibrator that improves understanding of sexual pleasure and orgasms through biofeedback data and science. Anna was previously a mechanical engineer at Amazon, launching the Amazon Dash Button’s original concept and the Kindle Voyage Page Press Technology. She was most recently named 2020’s Forbes 30 Under 30 as well as Paper Magazine’s Asian Women Creators You Need to Know. She is a big advocate in Lioness’s mission to expand understanding and research in sexual health, and destigmatize female sexuality.
Michelle Wu is an executive leader with 20 years of experience in the medical device and life sciences industries with roles in product and process development, manufacturing, and quality. Most recently, Michelle was on the executive leadership team at Ximedica, a design and development medical technology consultancy based in Rhode Island. Michelle has a history of successful medical device product development, strategic planning and execution, building teams, process evolution, and managing organizational change. She values a collaborative and diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, believing that diverse perspectives lead to the best ideas, more cohesive teams, and better results. Michelle is currently an independent consultant at Wu Consulting, LLC.
Samantha Rudolph is the co-founder and CEO of Babyation, a venture-backed startup that creates bold solutions at the intersection of healthcare, data and technology. Babyation thoughtfully improves products for the most intimate areas of the body so that women can live their best life as they work, play, parent, and age. Prior to Babyation, Sam spent nine years as a serial entrepreneur within ESPN, where she launched a variety of products, departments and technologies. She helped shape the company’s social media presence and strategy in the early days of Facebook and Twitter, and she staged a live boxing match from the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show. Sam was also part of the launch team at ESPN’s Los Angeles division, and she oversaw the business development team responsible for evaluating new technologies. Sam subsequently leveraged her expertise in sports data and video platforms as a consultant for private equity firms and management consulting companies. Sam graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received dual concentrations in Operations and Information Management (Decision Processes) and Management (Strategic Focus). Sam is a lead mentor for Stadia Ventures startup accelerator and is the treasurer of the St. Louis Breastfeeding Coalition. She is also mom to two boys, Exton and Oden.
Tracy MacNeal is the President & CEO of Materna Medical. Tracy is a chemical engineer and healthcare executive with a specialty in commercializing medical devices. With 6 successful transactions and over 20 years in pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, digital health, and medical devices, she brings a wealth of experience to the MedTech industry. A deep believer in collaboration within our shared healthcare ecosystem, Tracy is national Chair for Advamed’s Women’s Executive Network, amplifying the voices of women leaders who are creating the future of healthcare. Tracy holds a BE in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

IDSA ATX: Contracts for Designers: Everything You Need to Know
2021-05-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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

IDSA PVD: Outsiders on the Inside Mini Conference - Digital Health vs. Digital Wellbeing: How Much is Too Much
2021-05-20 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
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 healthcare system that need to be better understood. From idea to design to rollout, we’re asking: who’s still being left out of the conversation? Where is all this confidential data going? How much technology is too much? For better or for worse, our relationship with our devices is, for many of us, one of the most personal, intimate relationships of our lives at this moment–so we better be sure it’s a healthy one.
Join Loft and an all-star panel of industry experts and innovators for an exploration of digital health’s intersection–or collision–with digital wellbeing.
This conversation is part of Loft’s Outsiders on the Insiders Mini Conference, a free, three-part event taking place on May 20th. The goal of these events is to provide access to important conversations and give a platform to unique perspectives and voices.
Jeanette Numbers is an experienced design thinker + leader based in Providence, RI. As Cofounder of Loft, Jeanette specializes in creating visually compelling, human-centered design solutions that are rooted in purpose and driven by research. Jeanette’s work spans dozens of global brands and a wide variety of industries. She’s had proven success both in and outside of the corporate environment, leading teams in strategic design thinking, digital and physical product design, and final product commercialization. Her career has taken her to New York, San Francisco, Boston, and finally to Providence, where Loft’s corporate headquarters are based. As a longtime champion for local mentorship and community-building, Jeanette is excited to build on her vision for a collaborative and authentic design culture as chair of the Providence IDSA chapter.
Clare Jessy is a UX designer, inventor, explorer and storyteller who works for Philips Design at Philips Healthcare’s HealthTech Innovation Lab in Cambridge, MA. At Philips, she designs next generation AI driven healthcare diagnostic products, primarily for medical professionals in radiology and cardiology. The teams she works on are inherently multidisciplinary: designers, doctors, researchers, scientists, business people, and technologists. Outside of Philips she was the designer for a Brown Medicine project that developed a new way for patients to communicate pain to doctors using physical objects, designed a proof of concept for an augmented reality-based tool to map neurological biopsy sites and worked on improving service delivery to Boston’s addiction and homelessness community.
Danielle Snyder is a Director of Service Design & Strategy at Humana, where she has been for about 2 years. She is tasked with building out a new experience transformation team that will help to redesign the organization toward a more human centric operating model. By night, she is a new-ish mom of a human baby (17 month-old Maya) and a tenured mom of a Boston Terrier fur baby (9 year old Tux). Perhaps unsurprisingly, skilling up at her night job has helped significantly with her day job.
Margaux Boyaval is the Digital Product and UX Director at Teva Pharmacuticals. Margaux’s passion is in creating transformational connected health experiences for people striving for health. She has embedded CX and UX design teams and principles in large organizations across consumer health, medical device, hospital systems, digital health, and pharma marketing. She has shown that success that comes when teams develop strategies & solutions with patients’ and business goals in mind.
Megan Wimmer is a Senior Design Thinking Leader at GE Healthcare, where she is part of a global team responsible for crafting and facilitating Design Thinking workshops focused on product, service, and business strategy innovation. Each day, Megan strives to enable breakthrough solutions rooted in empathy by guiding teams to look at problems differently and use the most basic tools and their imaginations to investigate, uncover, and explore ideas they never thought possible. In a few short years, Megan and team have progressed Design Thinking from a relative unknown within GE Healthcare to a recognized career path and skill set valued throughout the broader GE corporation. Megan also helps project manage custom Adventure Series installations, designed to improve the radiology experience for pediatric patients, families and staff.
Prior to her current role, Megan spent 5+ years designing Computed Tomography (CT) scanners and completed the Edison Engineering Development Program. She graduated from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering & Design and secondary field of concentration in Rehabilitation Engineering.

NYCxDesign: Expertise X Design: An Introduction to IDSA’s Sections
2021-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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 each of these areas, and we’ve invited some of the very best leaders from our Sections program to share their knowledge with you:
Digital Design in AR and VR – Gabriele Sorrento, IDSA, Chair of the Digital Enterprise Section, will teach you how to leverage virtual and augmented reality technologies to streamline your design process.
Humanizing Furniture Design – David Patton, IDSA, Chair of the Furniture Section, will share information about the people and processes behind furniture design in an ever-demanding world.
Design in Digital Surgery – John Anastasiadis, IDSA, Chair of the Medical Design Section, will discuss design in MedTech and its role in the development of digital surgical solutions
IDSA Sections host events throughout the year, bringing the larger design community together for professional development and networking opportunities. We hope you’ll join us for this event to make exciting connections and learn something new! Recorded on May 17, 2021

Women in Design SEA: Built For This, Part 1 with Paola Reyes
2021-05-13 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 they are built for this work just as they are.
About our guest:
Heavily informed by research, involved in all steps of the user experience, leading design, and closely collaborating with development to realize the creative vision of a product is Paola’s sweet spot. Paola is a design leader with a passion for creating compelling, meaningful, delightful, human-centered experiences.
Bringing nearly 20 years of knowledge and award-winning work to the table, She delivers digital in the form of connected products, apps, and responsive websites.
Paola has worked on a wide variety of projects for clients like The BMW Group, Johnson Controls, Amazon, Penguin Random House, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nickelodeon and Philips, all in collaboration with amazing research, UX, design, and development talent.

WantedDesign 2021 Online International Schools Show
2021-05-12 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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 interactive online experience.
Register to attend the Creativity & Career: Designing Opportunities panel, May 12th at 1pm ET, a LIVE podcast conversation hosted by Amy Devers, co-founder of Clever, with Rosanne Somerson, President RISD, Natalie Nixon, Founder Figure 8 Thinking, and Diane Domeyer, Executive Director of The Creative Group. To celebrate the launch of the International Schools Show online exhibition, we will look at the many ways design students can employ their creative skill sets to seek out and design their own opportunities.
As part of the WantedDesign Online International Schools Show, WantedDesign maintains its annual Conscious Design Awards for Best Student Projects, presented with Metropolis magazine and with the support of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). The jury, led by Avinash Rajagopal, editor-in-chief of Metropolis, will choose winners in the categories of Original Concept and Design, Sustainable Solution, Project with Social Impact, and Ready to Be Implemented. The Best Conscious Design Award is given to the project that best embraces those four notions.
To round out the show, WantedDesign hosts an Emerging Designer Showcase, June 2-3, putting the spotlight on selected outstanding students taking part in the International Schools Show, including the winners of the Conscious Design Awards. Supported by Be Original Americas and moderated by Amy Devers, host and producer of Clever podcast, the Emerging Designer Showcase gives an opportunity for the top students to present their projects and introduce themselves to industry professionals. The public is welcome to attend.
Industry professionals giving feedback to the students will include design consultant John Edelman, former CEO of Design Within Reach, and representatives from Ligne Roset, Commune Design, Fantini, and Yellow Goat Design.
Find the WantedDesign Online International Schools Show including the Online Exhibition and accompanying programming at wanteddesign.online.
The WantedDesign Online International Schools Show is presented with the support of Metropolis magazine, Be Original Americas, Clever podcast, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and NYCxDESIGN.

IDSA NYC: Mix and Mingle
2021-05-11 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
A networking event for anyone looking to connect with the Industrial Design community in the Greater New York area.

IDSA NYC: Mix and Mingle II
2021-05-06 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Our second virtual networking event for anyone looking to connect with the Industrial Design community in the Greater New York area.

IDSA CLE: Blurred Lines 2.0
2021-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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 works alongside innovation and sales stakeholders to create products that benefit both users and the company’s bottom line.
In this collaboration between IDSA Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati you’ll hear from an exciting panel of design, innovation and sales professionals from McDougald Research, Path Robotics, and Newell Brands! Register today and don’t miss this opportunity to hear from these amazing panelists:

Speakers:

Mackenzie Shaw is a strategist, researcher, design thinker and problem solver with over 19 years of experience. An Industrial Designer (by degree – OSU ‘02) with time on both corporate (Nationwide) and agency (SonicRim) design and research teams, she has developed an expertise in leveraging the intersection of user needs and business objectives to align stakeholders, influence priorities and strategy, and inspire design. She is currently a Senior Director at McDougald Research leading client services and business operations, and spends her nights and weekends producing a music festival on her family farm.

Chris Brown is an experienced sales leader with a demonstrated history of working in the design industry. He’s skilled in client relations, operations, team management, commercialization and innovation strategy. He is a strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from The Ohio State University. Chris is currently an account executive at Path Robotics–an artificial intelligence company focusing on the manufacturing industry.

Lea Stewart uses design to deliver wins for business and users. She is highly skilled at developing creatives and building teams that people want to work for. Her experience has stretched to develop many leadership and hard skills in product development. The common themes of her best work are bringing empathy, focus on the consumer, and the application of a world class aesthetic. She is currently a Senior Manager at Newell Brands, Baby Division, leading a global team of industrial designers and engineers to create products that bring sanity, safety, and joy to familie

IDSA ATL: Spring Student Showcase: Georgia Tech School of Industrial Design
2021-05-06 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)

IDSA NYC: Rethink & Refresh & Restart
2021-04-29 20:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
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 approach to solve the many challenging problems during this crisis. We proved that design can play a role in making the world a healthier place. One year later, we rethink, refresh, restart for the post-pandemic life. IDSA NYC Chapter invites five guest speakers to share their work and insight from the pandemic. We will discuss the new era of human-centered design after the pandemic with attendees.
Speakers: Scott Henderson, Scott Star, Nadeem Haidary, Michael Youngblood, Ben Chesluk.

IDSA CIN: 2021 UC DAAPworks Professional Night
2021-04-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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 has partnered with the IDSA Cincinnati Chapter to create our second virtually adjudicated industrial design exhibition and Professional Night! We are excited to be welcoming a diverse group of jurors from across the country, including some new faces that you may recognize. Our jurors work for companies like Oculus, Ford, Garmin, OXO and more, and range in experience from young professionals to senior design leadership.
IDSA Cincinnati will be presenting awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, as well as superlative awards for Best Sketching, Most Socially Responsible, Best Use of Technology, and more. The awards were designed by last year’s winner, Ellen Posch, and were executed by the team at Scott Models. We will be announcing the winners and sharing some of the highlights of the exhibition, so we hope you can celebrate with us – after the presentation of the awards, stick around for drinks and networking! BYOB encouraged. We hope to see you there!

IDSA DEN: Sustainability Conversation
2021-04-29 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
Virtual conversation with:

Jasmin Druffner
Carol Shu
Kellen Hennessy

IDSA SEA: Rhino Visualization and Presentation
2021-04-22 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 making Rhino 7 one of the most significant updates to the platform since it’s creation. The makers of Rhino (Robert McNeel Assc.) will walk us through these new capabilities and answer any questions as we learn to rethink our own processes with this new powerful tool.

USPTO Design Day 2021
2021-04-22 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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, April 22, 2021, from 1 to 4 pm EDT. There will be a networking opportunity from 4:15 pm to 4:45 pm EDT, following the formal program. (Please see separate Eventbrite registration link, available soon, or contact the DesignDay@uspto.gov mailbox for registration and/or information.)
This event features: Welcome and Kick-off from Deputy Commissioner for Patents for the USPTO, Valencia Martin-Wallace; An update from the Director of Technology Center 2900, Karen Young; Information on recent design law changes on an international level from the Office of Policy and International Affairs (OPIA); Hear from Henry Tang, Associate General Counsel, about Facebook’s journey with design protection; Case law summarizing the most important design patent decisions over the past year from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the district courts, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); and more!
Design Day is co-sponsored by American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), the IP Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA-IPL), the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO), the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the International Trademark Association (INTA), International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

IDSA CLE: CIA Spring Design Show Virtual Happy Hour Kickoff
2021-04-20 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
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 IDSA student chapters at colleges and universities programs in industrial designs and related fields which offer undergraduate and/or graduate degrees.

Design Voices: The Intersection of Service Design & ID
2021-04-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
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.

IDSA DEIC: Race in Design - Understanding Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Designers’ Experience
2021-04-14 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
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 race in the design industry by sharing their lived experiences navigating the design world, as well as reflections on how their backgrounds have impacted their design perspectives.
Design has a long history with the AAPI community and culture. We’re very dependent on their culture as a source of inspiration, their technical know-how as manufacturers and their talent as designers. But we overlook them. Too often the stories of AAPI are clouded by the model minority myth, invalidating their daily struggles. It’s not a surprise that even if the spike on the violence against AAPI is backed by data, the overwhelming majority still do not think that this is an issue at all.
We know that we have a lot more to do. We’ve invited a panel of guests to paint a picture on how their race affects their experiences that translate to the products they design, their work ethics, morale, and all the other things they pursue.
Race in Design is brought to you by the efforts of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council (DEIC) of IDSA. We hope that we can continue this series to untangle how race affects the work of designers, and in turn the products that end up being produced.

IDSA SEA: Rhino 7
2021-04-08 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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 join us as we dive into Rhino 7 and learn more about SubD modeling to instantly create organic shapes to understanding all the new commands and tools that can help us accelerate our creative process.

IDSA NL: Excuse me but your ego is in the way - with Nikki Hageman
2021-04-07 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
A journey to embracing and leveraging empathy to find truly user-centric design solutions.

IDSA ATL + ATX: Follow Up in 5
2021-04-01 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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

Transportation & Mobility Section: Mobility and the Role of Customer Experience
2021-03-31 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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.

IDSA PIT: Interview with Tom Bonnell
2021-03-30 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)

Sustainability Section: Close the Loop Ideathon
2021-03-25 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
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 offsets, and more.
Onscreen contributors will include four design students from Arizona State U. and the Savannah College of Art and Design, two live note sketchers from Iowa State U., and ideation coordinators Philip White and Shruti Parikh of the IDSA Sustainability Section, and Vincent Lin, of the IDSA New York City Chapter.
This exceptionally stimulating event is part of Circular City New York, the largest circular economy festival in the US.
Join us to generate a profusion of circular design ideas!

IDSA SF: Design Centrism
2021-03-25 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
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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 an award-winning design studio and as new partners of Material ConneXion, a global materials and innovation consultancy that maintains the world’s largest subscription-based materials library and database with 10K+ innovative materials and processes. Nonfiction’s new studio in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco features a satellite Material Library in partnership with Material ConneXion.
​Nonfiction is a creative studio turning science fiction into reality for a better future. Its expert team of industrial designers, strategists, architects, & engineers create innovative products, places, and systems for clients around the world.

Getting It Made Deep Dive 2021
2021-03-17 - 2021-03-18
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.

IDSA PHL: 2021 Student Merit Awards
2021-03-05 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
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.

IDSA DEN: 2021 National ID Day Panel Discussion
2021-03-05 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual discussion with design professionals from the local IDSA Denver community. Recorded March 5, 2021

National Industrial Design Day
2021-03-05
