Yumeng Xie has passed her PhD comprehensive exam Dec 06, 2019 Yumeng Xie has passed her PhD comprehensive exam and prospectus in the PhD in Design, Environment and the Arts. Congratulations! We are exited to have you in our team.
Seed grant in sustainable design Nov 27, 2019 The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts approved a seed grant that the Lab proposed for Spring 2020. Its title is "Sustainable design practices: Methods, skills, and attitudes of experienced designers." The Co-PIs of the grant are G. Mauricio Mejia and Daniel Fischer. …
Research session with senior undergraduate student designers Sep 26, 2019 On September 25th, MS student Aysha Alwazzan and other lab members conducted a research session with senior students from visual communication design, industrial design, and interior design. The study is about how designers respond to and incorporate theory into their ideation …
The Transformation Lab will be in the ASU symposium Agents of Change Sep 23, 2019 On October 24th, G. Mauricio Mejía will present a poster and display interactive products in the symposium "Agents of Change: Futures of Hope, Futures of Concern" (register here). The event is part of the Planetary Management Symposium series and it is presented by the ASU …
"Designing (intentionally) for behavior change" Coming breakout session in AIGA Phoenix Design Week in October Aug 05, 2019 On October 12-13, Mauricio Mejía will present a breakout sessiong in the AIGA Phoenix Design Week conference. The session is titled "Designing (intentionally) for behavior change". In this session, Dr. Mejía will discuss alternatives and implications of approaches to persuasive …
Presentation Emergent Design Practices Mar 26, 2019 On Thursday, March 28th, Mauricio Mejia will make an online presentation organized by Juan P Velasquez in the University Foundation Los Libertadores in Bogotá, Colombia. Dr. Mejia is going to talk about emergent design practices such as service design and systemic design.
Paper presentation in HCII conference Mar 01, 2019 In July, G. Mauricio Mejía, the lab director will present the paper “Exploring rhetoric theory in persuasive design: A mobile web application for obesity prevention” in the Human-Computer Interaction International Conferece. The paper is co-authored with Sauman Chu from the …
The Transformation Lab launched in The Design School Feb 08, 2019 The Design School creates a new research lab called the Transformation Lab, led by Professor Mauricio Mejía. The lab will be a collaborative platform for other researchers, partners and students interested in applying design to changing human behaviors and lifestyles.