Kim Goodwin “Designing a Unified Experience: Bringing Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Design Together” (New York, NY)
Friday, March 20th, 2009 by Michele Marut| April 22, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
IxDA NYC welcomes
KIM GOODWIN
respected practitioner, educator, speaker, and author.
Interaction design, visual design, and industrial design are distinct disciplines for good reason: Each excels in different ways. Interaction designers must be good at imagining structure and flow, which requires strong analytical skills and a high degree of rigor, especially for complex systems. Visual designers and industrial designers are masters of visual and physical usability but are also masters of emotion: They know how to evoke caution, attract attention, and instill desire for a product at first glance. Users have just one experience of a product, though. All three aspects of the design must work in concert, or the product will fail to satisfy. Integration of the three disciplines is a central theme of Kim’s new book, Designing for the Digital Age.
DATE and TIME
Wednesday evening, April 22, 2009
6:30 - 7:00 Refreshments and networking
7:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - 8:30 Open discussion
The event is free of charge and open to all interested parties.
For security reasons, only those on the guest list will be admitted. (Please bring photo ID.)
LOCATION
(Midtown Manhattan: details will be emailed to attendees)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kim Goodwin is vice-president, design and general manager at Cooper, where she both leads an integrated practice of interaction, visual, and industrial designers and has led the development of the acclaimed Cooper U design curriculum. Kim knows the design world from multiple angles; she started as an in-house and freelance designer and spent several years as an in-house creative director before joining Cooper eleven years ago. Kim has led projects involving a tremendous range of design problems, including web sites, complex analytical and enterprise applications, phones, medical devices, services, and even organizations. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. This range of experience and a passion for teaching have led to Kim’s popularity as an author and as a speaker at conferences and companies around the world.
