Creativity & Design speakers
Don Norman is Director of the recently established Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego where he is also professor emeritus of both psychology and cognitive science and a member of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Former designer & engineer for Apple, and author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process...
Founder of Behance & Adobe's Chief Product Officer; Early Investor & Product Advisor, Pinterest, Uber & Other Top Companies
• Harvard professor on how to boost creative productivity
• Founder of Behance & Adobe's Chief Product Officer
• Author of The Messy Middle & Making Ideas Happen
• Early Investor & Product Advisor, Pinterest, Uber & Other Top Companies
• Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life
• Author of Reimagining Design
• Award-winning contemporary art advisor, author & curator
• Author of How Creativity Rules the World
• Design thinking expert & founder of Visual Insight
• Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month
• Co-founder of 100 Word Story
• Author of Pep Talks for Writers & Brave the Page
• Professor & author on the power of storytelling
• Adjunct Professor Stanford University (Design Institute), Co-Director Stanford Executive Education
• Co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
• Founder Launchpad Accelerator Stanford University
• COO Patagonia, CEO Timbuk2, and founder Atlas Snowshoe Co.
• Former designer & engineer for Apple
• Author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
• The expert on transformation and the tech-driven workplace
• Author of Disrupted, Lab Rats and STFU
• Writer on Silicon Valley.
• Artistic Director of Artichoke, one of the UK’s leading independent production company
• Founder of the Moving Up Media Lab & Host of the PBS podcast, Attribution
• Author of the best-seller, Three Little Engines
• Expert on social mobility and the American Dream
• Author of Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
• A leader in the application of human-centered design
• Author of several books including, The Design of Everyday Things
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems
• Author of the novel Sideways, upon which the Oscar-winning film was adapted
• Managing director of Massive Entertainment
• Author of The Dream Architects
• Pushing the limits of human potential with projects like the human-powered helicopter.
• Author of the books, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck and This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
• Bestselling author of The Back of The Napkin on how anyone can use simple pictures to lead, innovate & sell
• Pushing the limits of human potential with projects like the human-powered helicopter.
• Google X's Cultural Alchemist, responsible for leading Culture for Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory
• Bestselling author of Practical Genius
• Author of Zig Zag & other books on the power of collaboration & greater creativity
• Award-winning New York Times editor
• Adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts
• His work is in the permanent collection at MoMA
• Artist & Speaker
• Founder of PeaceLove Foundation
• Director of Executive Education at the Stanford d.school
• Co-Author of Ideaflow who's reimagining design thinking
• Target’s former VP of Trend Design
• Author of several books including, The Hummer and the Mini
• Consumer needs expert
• Emmy award winner, polymath & former medical clown
• Playful communicator who helps companies re-engage their staff and customers