Faculty
Leadership
Amy O'Keefe is the Director of EDI and teaches Service Design. She leads design sprint and micro-pilot coursework. Amy has consulted on service, experience, and integrated multi-channel initiatives for Fortune 50 retail and global Am Law 100 clients.
Human-Centered Design Studio Faculty
Liz Gerber
Co-Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design
Co-Director, Delta Lab
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Founder, Design for America
Liz Gerber teaches Service Design and leads research in the Segal Design Institute. She studies and designs social computing systems to support innovation.
Greg Holderfield
Executive Director, Segal Design Institute
Co-director, MMM Program
Pentair - D. Eugene and Bonnie L. Nugent Clinical Professor of Design Innovation
Greg Holderfield teaches Design Strategy Studio. Greg was the vice president of design and strategy at
Faculty
George teaches Ethics and Identity in Design. He is the co-founder of Greater Good Studio. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at IDEO, and was the first human-centered designer at the Chicago Transit Authority.
Dan Brown teaches Differentiation by Design and Intellectual Property and Innovation. He is the founder and president of LoggerHead Tools and a principal at Consul-Tech Concepts. He also holds over 30 U.S. utility patents.
Michael Chapman teaches Design Research. He spent 12 years with IDEO as a design director before joining Ascension Health as a senior director with the mandate to initiate the design research team.
Susan Curtis teaches Interaction Design with Tom Quish and Jesse Wilbur, and mentors EDI thesis projects. She is the founder and president of Bloompath Studios, a consultancy helping purpose-driven organizations design better products and services.
Mike Edmonds teaches Mindful Product Management and mentors EDI thesis projects. Mike is the Co-Founder and VP of Product at Moonshot by Pactera, a global innovation studio helping brands co-create purposeful experiences based on emerging technologies.
John Hartman teaches Communication Design and a number of industrial design courses in the Segal Design Institute. He was previously Industrial Design Lead at Lunar Design.
Rick Hoobler
Adjunct Lecturer
Erica Isaacs teaches a Design Sprint course focused on healthcare innovation. Currently she is working as a Senior Design Researcher within Nemera's Insight Innovation Center.
James Ludwig
Adjunct Lecturer
Principal, Ludwig & Hamilton and Founder of The Foundation Project
James teaches Brand and Design Leadership and is the Vice President of Global Design and Product Engineering at Steelcase.
Tom co-teaches Interaction Design with Susan Curtis and is the SVP, Head of Design for Rightpoint, a global experience consultancy.
Craig Sampson teaches Designing Product Interactions and Intersect CPG. He is the founder of TBD Innovation. Craig previously founded and directed the IDEO Chicago office.
Amy Schwartz teaches Design Research and Thesis Studio. Currently, she consults as a Principal at Empathic Innovation and is the Design Researcher in Residence at MATTER, the Chicago health-tech incubator.
Jill Sherman teaches Design Communication. She is a Design Principal and Enterprise Design Thinking Leader at IBM. She has over 20 years of extensive graphic design, branding and integrated marketing experience in a variety of industries.
Elisa Vargas teaches Service Design. Currently, she leads the global user experience design practice as design director at Motorola Mobility.
Helen von den Steinen co-teaches Product Design Studio and Intersect CPG. She is a Principal Scientist for research and design at Procter & Gamble.
Jesse Wilbur
Adjunct Lecturer
