2009 Apr 20 - Apr 26

Mon 20 April 2009 - 6:30 PM
BILL MITCHELL MIT Design Lab
Carnegie Museum of Art Theatre

Mon Apr 20 - 8 PM
CMU - Baker Hall 136A
Charles D'Ambrosio. D'Ambrosio is an American short story writer and essayist. He has published two collections of short stories, "The Point" (1995) and "The Dead Fish Museum" (2006). He has also published a collection of essays, "Orphans" (2005). His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. "The Point" was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "The Dead Fish Museum" was a finalist for the
PEN/Faulkner Award. In October 2006, D'Ambrosio was awarded the prestigious
Whiting Writers' Award

Wed Apr 22 - 7 PM
CMU school of design
Baker Hall, Giant Eagle Auditorium
John Kolko, Frog Design
Jon Kolko is a Senior Design Analyst at frog design, in Austin, Texas. He has worked extensively in both the professional and academic worlds of interaction design, manipulating complicated technological constraints in order to best solve the problems of Fortune 500 clients and educating future interaction designers to do the same. His work has extended into the worlds of supply chain management, demand planning, pricing and configuration, and customer-relationship management, and he has worked with clients such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cisco, Ford, IBM, Microsoft, Palm, and other leaders of the Global 2000. The common underlying theme of these problems and projects was the creation of a solution that was useful, usable, and desirable.
His present research investigates the process of Design, with a focus on the use of Information Architecture during the Synthesis phase of a design problem. This includes the role of visual data organization during requirement mapping and definition, as well as educational structures for acquiring these Information Architecture and Design skills.