
The RGD invites you to learn, grow and strive for excellence with DT2020 presentations from three women leaders. This women's day let's choose to challenge!
Grace Hwang
Creating Connection: the Power of Design to Bring People Together
Grace is Partner Director of Mixed Reality Design & UX Research at Microsoft. She believes in the power of human-centered design to cultivate positive change in people, systems and society. Prior to joining Microsoft, Grace led Product and Marketing Design at Carrot, a digital health start-up focused on empowering people to take control of their health. Grace's passion for health and well-being was fueled over the course of her 12-year tenure at design and innovation firm, IDEO, where she was most recently the Executive Director of Health and co-led the Food & Beverage practice. She holds multiple patents and was awarded a Fast Company Innovation By Design Award for her work on the patient and employee experience for Planned Parenthood. In addition to her professional work, Grace has been dedicated to educating the next generation of creative problem solvers by teaching design thinking to students of engineering, business, psychology and medicine at Stanford D-school.
In this talk, Grace brings her experience and insight from designing for health and well-being and her journey into mixed reality to share the possibilities for design to grow our sense of togetherness.
Sponsored by MET Fine Printers
Alice Rawsthorn
Design Emergency
Alice is an award-winning design critic and author, whose books include Hello World: Where Design Meets Life and, most recently, Design as an Attitude. Her weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. An influential public speaker and social media commentator on design, Alice has participated in important global events including TED and the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Alice has been awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts. She is a co-founder with Paola Antonelli of the Design Emergency project to investigate design’s response to the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath.
In this talk, Alice explores the successes, failures and long-term impact of design’s response to the pandemic and its aftermath.
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Brave Conversations
Sponsored by .design
RGD Members have access to all DesignThinkers 2020 presentation in the Members-only section of our website.