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Creating A More Sustainable World

Auckland / 13 July 2010 / 4:00pm

Nathan Shedroff

Sustainability is often confounding to designers, developers, and managers regardless of how important they view it. Nathan Shedroff make a clear approach to the principles, frameworks, tools, and strategies that can help everyone along the value chain improve the ecological, social, and financial performance of their products, services, and other experiences.

Date: Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Auckland
Venue: The Gold Lecture Theatre, Room 1003, Building 180. Unitec, Entry 4. Carrington Road. Mount Albert.

RSVP: events@consultfische.com. Space is limited !!

Creating Meaningful Experiences

Christchurch / 15 July 2010 / 3.00pm

Nathan Shedroff

It's not enough to use technology appropriately – or even innovatively. It's also not enough to simply use a human-centered development process to build better interfaces. These days, to truly provide value and serve customers and audiences, it's important (and possible) to build more meaningful products and services that enhance their lives and align with their values. This is the forefront of where development has lead and, ultimately, helps organizations of all types build more successful experiences.

Date: Thursday, 15 July 2010
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Jadeworld Board Room, 5 sir Gil Simpson Drive, Christchurch
RSVP: events@consultfische.com before 13 July.

Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA. This program prepares next-generation leaders with a vision of business as sustainable, meaningful, ethical, profitable, and truly innovative. The program unites the perspectives of systems thinking, integrative thinking, sustainability, and new tools for leadership into a holistic framework.

He is a pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, speaks and teaches internationally, and is a serial entrepreneur. His many books include: Experience Design 1.1, Making Meaning, Design is the Problem, and the upcoming Make It So.

He holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and a BS in Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design. He worked with Richard Saul Wurman at TheUnderstandingBusiness and, later, co-founded vivid studios, a decade-old pioneering company in interactive media and one of the first Web services firms on the planet. vivid’s hallmark was helping to establish and validate the field of information architecture, by training an entire generation of designers in the newly emerging Web industry.

Nathan was nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award in 1994 and 1999 and a National Design Award in 2001.

www.nathan.com
www.designmba.org
www.experiencedesignbooks.com
www.makingmeaning.org

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