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Doctoral candidate Yumeng Xie will defend her Ph.D. dissertation on Friday, October 20th, in the Design South building, room 143. Her research is on design professionals’ collaboration perspectives, challenges, and strategies. 

This June, PhD Candidate Yumeng Xie started her annual internship as a User Experience Researcher at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest transportation logistics companies in North America. It specializes …

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 …

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 …

Transformation Lab's director Mauricio Mejía will be guest speaker at the Digital Festival – DIGIFEST2020 of the Durban University of Technology in Durban, South Africa. In his presentation scheduled on Nov. 5th, Dr. Mejía will talk about the Futures of Design. Watch the video …

The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts approved a seed grant that the Lab proposed for Spring 2020. Its title is "Sustainable design practices: Methods, skills, and attitudes of experienced designers." The Co-PIs of the grant are G. Mauricio Mejia and Daniel Fischer. …