Joyce Thomas is an inventor, innovator and educator with a passion to empower people through good design. Professionally, she has worked across interdisciplinary boundaries integrating marketing, engineering and consumer needs into creative products. She has utilized empathic research strategies in her product designs that have accounted for more than $4 billion in retail sales and been awarded 59 patents worldwide. Thomas is a visiting assistant professor of industrial design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As Chief Creative Officer for the ThomasSchumerGroup she is helping to develop creative ideas and innovative solutions for a diverse group of small businesses.
Session Title:
Flying Blind: The Education and Practice of ID
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