Design Expo 2019

Design Expo 2019

I'll be holding an info session on this year's Design Expo on Friday, February 8th from 12 - 1 p.m. in Room 20.

Design Expo is an eight-week design challenge — seven weeks during the semester, and one after. Students will work in groups to understand, and then respond to, a brief from Microsoft Research (MSR), and then present their work for feedback and iteration. Each week will also feature guest presenters from the practitioners from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Kickstarter, and more.

This year's theme is "Empathy at Scale," and allows for a wide variety of interpretations. Given the scale and range of the topic, it will be critical for students to focus in on a particular community, type of interface, and problem that has impact. Students will form their own small groups of 3-5 people (before applying), and each group will research the challenge, propose possible innovations or solutions, and then iterate those proposals. A successful proposal can be a demo ("We've imagined a new possibility, and this is what it would look like") or a prototype ("We've imagined a new possibility, and we built a small version of it.")

More info (and the signup form) can be found here: https://goo.gl/forms/wQSaTwA1Wem7TQJm1. The application deadline is February 12th.

About me:

Mike Dory is a prototyper and tinkerer, currently working on AI research at Google in NYC.

He was formerly the Managing Director at KBS | Spies & Assassins, an award-winning creative technology boutique, playing with platforms, applications, experiences and advertising across mobile, social, emerging platforms, the web, and at retail and physical locations. Prior to joining KBS, he co-founded the social technology agency Socialbomb (acquired by Refinery29 in 2013), and served as its CTO for four years.  

He hold a Masters of Interactive Telecommunications from NYU ITP, where he is also an adjunct professor, and is the co-author of the book Introduction to Tornado, published by O’Reilly Media.