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PhD Candidate Yumeng Xie led a conference paper presentation that she coauthored with Dr. Mauricio Mejía and PhD Student Wenqi Zheng. The paper is titled " An exploratory study of co-design skills in US job postings ." We did a quantitative content analysis and observed that …

As a part of the project of Social Isolation of Older Adults, Dr. Mejía will be part of two presentations of research in the Gerontological Society of America GSA 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting at Phoenix AZ. G. Mauricio Mejía, Cheryl Der Ananian & Brad Doebbeling. …

Dr. Mejía co-organizes the Sevice Design Phoenix meetup group. Last Tuesday Nov. 16th, the group met and Dr. Mejía talked about Futures-oriented strategic design . It was one of the three lighting talks. Nov 16 in the Center For Entrepreneurial Innovation.

This fall Dr. Mejía will teach Designing Health Services at Creighton University, Phoenix. He was appointed Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities. The course is offered to Medicine professional students. Update: see below some images of a customer …

Is behavioral economics (nudge theory) a potential theory in design for behavior change? Dr. Mauricio Mejía discusses this issue in a journal article Theory-Driven or Theory-Informed? A Review of Behavioural Economics in Design , published in The Design Journal, Volume 24 Issue …

Dr. Mauricio Mejía joined two scholars in Denmark (Cathrine Løgager and Luca Simeone) to coauthor the forthcoming conference paper titled " A foresight-oriented service design approach to foster longer-term thinking and sustainable practices. " We study how service designers can …

Dr. G. Mauricio Mejía participated in the panel discussion on reflections about the future of design titled "El diseño que viene" [The design that is coming]. Panelists included Ricardo Sosa and Ruth León and the moderator was Roberto Iñiguez, who is the Dean of the School of …

Students of Prof. G. Mauricio Mejía's class on service design worked in the project "Designing services for work-based learning experiences of secondary and college students." The project's sponsor was Phoenix' Partnership for Economic Innovation. Students presented service …

Dr. G. Mauricio Mejía presented the talk "The role of future fiction in strategic design." Sandjar Kozubaev was the commenter. Speculative Futures Phoenix. Phoenix, AZ: Speculative Futures (held online). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-role-of-future-fiction-in-strategic-des...