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Monday, February 9 • 2:00pm - 2:50pm
Meaning First: Design For The Human Spirit And Our Collective Creativity

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Today design has been reduced to a competition for stimulating our brain stem, instead of stimulating our deepest human needs, a sense of fulfillment and awakening our creativity. Are designers in a position to change this? What if we could design to make our Darwinian instincts work for us instead of against us? Let’s start a conversation and a movement for design that unlocks creativity and human potential. In this talk, Tristan (Google) will suggest concrete steps you can take today – whether you’re a product designer or business leader - to help design for human values. Kristian (IDEO and CCA) will inspire us through examples of our inherent specialness as designers, and our mission to humanize technology, benefit people and to awaken collective creativity. 
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Tristan Harris

Co-founder, Center for Humane Technology
Tristan Harris, called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience” by The Atlantic magazine, was the former Design Ethicist at Google. He became a world expert on how technology steers the thoughts, actions, and relationships that structure two billion people’s lives... Read More →
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Kristian Simsarian

Chair, Interaction Design, California College of the Arts / IDEO

Monday February 9, 2015 2:00pm - 2:50pm PST
1. YBCA: Theater 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
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