Hasta La Ideas

We’re thrilled to welcome the Interaction Design Association (www.ixda.org) as the newest addition to our Job Board Partner Network. The IxDA supports a thriving community and is the premier destination for interaction design professionals worldwide. We’ve been big supporters of the IxDA for many years, and we’re looking forward to growing our relationship into the future.

We’re also looking forward to their annual conference, Interaction 2011, held in Boulder, CO in February. The list of speakers and events is now online, and we’ll be there in full force. Coroflot Connects is a one-night recruiting and networking event taking place during the conference, and is a great way to bring designers and hiring organizations together. Grab your skis and head out to Boulder and join us!

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Veronika Scott, a junior at the College for Creative Studides in Detroit, Michigan, has embarked on a quest to help over 32,000 homeless Detroiters by providing them with something basic, but much needed: a winter coat. The problem of the immense number of homeless is exacerbated by the lack of funding for proper shelters, leaving half of them out in the cold. As Scott points out, “for those who have no home, their coat is also their shelter,” so rather than just clothe those in need, she’s developed a hybrid shelter and garment—the coat turns into a sleeping bag, using body heat captured during the day to provide extra warmth at night.

The Element S coat is made from Tyvek and wool, simple enough to be made by first time sewers, and, in fact, designed to be. Scott hopes the production of these coats will teach people new skills, help them find employment, and inspire a sense of pride.

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Guest post by Tiffany Chu, Continuum.

After lunch, we settled back into our seats for a talk titled “Digital Service Design: Lessons from the Cloud.” It was not, in fact, another rehash of cloud computing, but instead a specific point of view on the nuances of service design within the digital realm, presented by Monica Bueno, a principal at Continuum.

The first lesson Bueno proposed was to rethink the role of staff—a surprising, not-entirely-intuitive perspective for the digital domain. She offered the example of TD Bank, who has ramped up their deployment of digital banking tools in order to free up their staff to be much more customer service-oriented and do what humans do best. She also mentioned the latest Zappos commercials, whose ironic humor highlights relationship-building between staff and consumers—an external ad campaign which is actually underlined on the inside with incentive programs for longer call times and ensuring every employee is trained in the call center.

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Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, 55 East Wacker Drive, Chicago designed by Harry Weese & Associates, built in1968

Early last week the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts hosted the launch of a new book, The Architecture of Harry Weese, by the authors and architecture historians Robert Bruegmann and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik, in a building actually designed by the architect himself, the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, on East Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago.

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RKS Design Inc.
Experienced Industrial Designer
Thousand Oaks, CA

Are you ready to contribute your passion and self-motivated focus to a wide variety of design applications and convergent disciplines? RKS Design invites applicants whose exceptional creativity can flourish in a team environment that thrives on meeting significant challenges and breaking with tradition. You must have a deep passion for creating new, innovative, break-through designs that meet the evolving needs of our clients.

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The best design jobs and portfolios hang out at Coroflot.

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