How to anticipate the customer’s next major need? What are new ways of keeping innovation relevant? How do product developers stay involved throughout a product’s life span?
Service Design offers new, effective and integrative tools to find answers to these questions. This session at Product Camp Atlanta 5, hosted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute discussed key concepts, examples and tools.
Session with Alisan Atvur. See full description on the Product Camp Website.
What are the opportunities for design in both Atlanta and in the broader context? IDSA Atlanta presents an evening of networking and discussion around the future of industrial design in ATL. Several local design leaders share their views on the evolution of our discipline in a round-table format. Add your voice to the conversation.
Panelists include:
Michelle Berryman, EchoViz
Florian Vollmer, InfoRetail
Collin Farill and Travis Ekmark
http://www.idsa.org/future-atl-design
Talk description: “Florian Vollmer, SVP of Info Retail, presents key moments in the growth of an 8 people firm (in 2003) into an integrated agency of 35 employees (today). During that time, Info Retail has evolved from a retail design agency to a design strategy agency creating deeply integrated experiences. Florian discusses business and philosophy decisions along this growth experience. The profession of design has undergone considerable change during this time, and today design thinking has a place in many corporate decision making processes. Florian discusses how this focus on the individual experience can help making businesses more human-centered”
See event announcement at the British American Business Group.