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Design trends and metrics inspire the new face of TechNews

The topic for our April 5, 2023, Design Community session was the trends and metrics that DoIT Communications used to inspire a new design for the TechNews newsletter. Our guests Kyle Henderson and…

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Prioritizing People: Designing as Sociability

Dr. Maria Patsarika and Professor Scott Townsend’s public talk will overview their design research conducted over the last seven years primarily in Greece. With a focus on design and social…

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Shoemaking Artistry, Craftsmanship, History, and Future

Please join us for a conversation between shoemakers Amara Hark-Weber, Jesse Moore, and Sarah Madeleine T. GUERIN, and creative director and senior curator of the Bata Shoe Museum Elizabeth…

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Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture 2023: Shoe Obsessed: Power, Identity, and the Manufacturing of Desire

Fashion is anything but frivolous. This talk will explore the economic and social implications of footwear and how mass production, market fragmentation and the commodification of identities has made…

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Best Practices for Inclusive and Diverse Photography in Higher Education

The University Photographers’ Association of America (UPAA) put out a first-of-its-kind guide around visual representation in 2022. Four UPAA members and university photographers who were…

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(original) Best Practices for Inclusive and Diverse Photography in Higher Education

The University Photographers’ Association of America (UPAA) put out a first-of-its-kind guide around visual representation in 2022. Four UPAA members and university photographers who were…

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Design Community — Send even better emails: Insights gained from emailing 50,000 people

When should you send your emails out? What does it look like to send out an email to 50,000+ users? What goes into a responsive design template? Learn about email newsletters as Kyle Henderson at…

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Design Community: How content can support—or impair—your DEI efforts

Dayana Kibilds, strategy director at Ologie, joined us to talk about the effect our content has on our DEI efforts. We can have the best of intentions but inadvertently confuse prospective students,…

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Design Community: Build a better email—Tips and tricks for using Eloqua to send communications

Rebecca (Bex) Quigley, Web Solutions Analyst with WIDA, joined us for our October 27 Design Community session to share tips and tricks for using Eloqua to send communications.

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Design Community: Now Better and more Design-y

Our September 28, 2022 Design Community event focused on you. You shared. Are we getting it right? We structured this event to ask you to hold us accountable and to learn about future sessions. We…

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Designing the Nick: Public Lecture with Emily Ostertag

Emily Ostertag, 2017 Early Career Alumni Award Winner, will share her journey as a former UW swimmer (‘02-‘06) and School of Human Ecology Interior design graduate (’06 BS,…

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August Design Community Retrospective

As we come up on our first anniversary as a community, we will use our August 25 UW Design Community session to re-center ourselves and review our past year together — how we got started, how…

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3rd Annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium

The Center for Design and Material Culture is pleased to host the third annual Chipstone-CDMC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Symposium on Wednesday, August 24 at 10AM. This fellowship program, in…

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July 2022 Design Community

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is tough! How your website appears on social media and search engines will impact its click-through rate. Luckily, we have tools and strategies that make improving…

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Design Community: Swag —If you buy it will they come?

As part of the Design Community series, Alison Caffrey from the Instructional Design Collaborative joined us to talk about her experiences with designing and purchasing swag at UW–Madison and…

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Crafting New Futures Using “Ideas Arrangements Effects”

The Studio proposes that we can redesign systems if we follow a simple premise: “Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects.” They offer arrangements as a…

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