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 & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life and author of Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation
• Harvard professor on how to boost creative productivity
• Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products, at Adobe
• Bestselling author of two books & writer of leading technology industry newsletter, Implications
• 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
• Author of the book Productive Failure (Sept 2024)
• Director of the Singapore-ETH Center, and Professor for Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Founding Chair of the ETH Zurich – EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences
• 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
• Former COO Patagonia, CEO Timbuk2, and founder Atlas Snowshoe Co.
• Head of Product Engineering at Humane
• 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.
• 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
• UX consultant and speaker — a household name in UX and product design
• Author of ten books — most recently the bestselling The User Experience Team of One
• Guggenheim Fellow
• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems
• Author of the books, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck and This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
• 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
• Co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters
• Podcast host of Beyond the Prompt, an exploration of the world of AI and its expanding impact on business and daily work
• Target’s former VP of Trend Design
• Author of several books including, The Hummer and the Mini
• Consumer needs expert