What Should the Design Process Look Like in the Age of AI?
Speaker: Jonathan Bobrow, Designer/Founder and MIT Media Lab alum
Moderator: Visakh Menon, Artist, Art Director, and Webby Award Nominee
Host: Huron Consulting, 1166 Sixth Avenue at 45 street
Date: Monday May 11. 6 pm to 8 pm.
(Photo: Jonathan Bobrow.)
How are AI tools like Claude Code and Figma Make changing the way digital and physical products are designed? Are they making designers obsolete or more essential than ever? What design skills will remain in long-term demand? Jonathan Bobrow, Designer/Founder and MIT Media Lab alum, will dig into these questions and more.
At Nanotronics, Jonathan is Lead Design Engineer, a cross-functional role spanning design, engineering, SEO, and product strategy. He has helped design and build modern applications for AI-powered tools in semiconductor fabrication.
Earlier Jonathan founded Move38, which builds tools for creativity such as Blinks, an open source smart-tabletop game system that raised over $500K on Kickstarter. He also spent years designing interactive museum installations for institutions including Museum of Science and Industry and the Smithsonian.
Jonathan was a TEDx speaker on how play shapes the way we think, an adjunct instructor at NYU, and an alumnus of the MIT Media Lab and UCLA Design | Media Arts.
(Photo: Visakh Menon.)
Visakh Menon's artworks, which focus on the visual display of glitches, human error and noise, are part of the Ritz Carlton Yacht and other collections. As art director, Menon designed the Webby nominated and World Press Photo awarded Unknown Spring, an immersive digital documentary about Fukushima residents in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. He also works as an independent creative director for advertising and commercial campaigns, including for Coca Cola, Walmart, Nikon, and Yardley.
Menon was recently the artist in residence at the Institute of Electronic Arts, at Alfred University, NY. His artworks were recently exhibited at The Kochi Muziris Biennale. He is an adjunct faculty at the NY City College of Technology, CUNY, and St. John's. His residencies include at Arteles, Finland. Menon received his M.F.A from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Bachelors in Visual Communication from Bharathiar University, India.
Date: Monday May 11. 6 pm to 8 pm.
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