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Design Agency: Reestablishing Design’s Identity in Education and Practice

Interested in keeping up with what’s going on in design education? In his latest paper, presented at this year's IDSA IDC2021 conference, Jim discusses the challenges facing design education, both recent and historical, and …
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September 20, 2021
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ND Design Partners with Lippert to Identify Radical Insights for the Future of the RV Industry

Notre Dame Design and local Elkhart, IN outdoor equipment manufacturer, Lippert Components, wrapped up an exciting project this past week. Inspired largely by the research approach and methods outlined in Liz Sanders and Pieter …
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June 15, 2021
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Tower of Babel: The conflicting semantics of user needs

Rudolph Design Studio co-founder, Jim Rudolph, and his Notre Dame Design colleague, Ann-Marie Conrado, moderated an engaging Conversation at DRS2020, the annual international conference held by the Design Research Society. The Conversation, titled Tower …
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November 20, 2020
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Redefining User Needs

In his recent journal publication and presentation at the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Jim discusses how the phrase ‘user needs’ has come to be defined, understood, and used within the …
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July 11, 2020