HOW Design Live 2019

What Do We Want Design To Be? (Room E353)

09 May 19
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Tracks: Design + Creativity

Design success stories are everywhere, but the design profession remains largely in a state of arrested development—neither as well understood nor as well valued as our peers in technology. If we are committed to fulfilling design’s potential, we need to examine closely our ambitions, and our motivations. In this talk, Adobe Senior Principal Designer Khoi Vinh, writer at Subtraction.com, former design director for NYTimes.com, and named one of Fast Company’s “Fifty Most Influential Designers,” takes a sober look at what’s holding design back and where it can go next.