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Designing What We Use
Designing Our Digital World
Designing What We Wear
Designing Our Spaces
Designing Multimedia Expereinces

Thu September, 17

In Person FREE

Building for impact: Supercharge Product Design with Design Systems + AI Tools

10:15am-11am
Blake Arnsdorff
In Person FREE

Let’s Build Together with Cursor

11:15am-12pm
Blake Arnsdorff
Virtual FREE

When Worlds Collide: AI’s Disruption of Product, Design, and Research

12:30pm-1:15pm
HP / HP Workforce Solutions / Pedro Quinones and Nazima Ahmad
In Person FREE

AMPLIFIED!™ — AI-Powered Problem Statements

1:30pm-2:45pm
Kevin Popović, The Idea Guy®
In Person FREE

Designing AI Superpowers

3pm-3:45pm
Chad Q. Martin
In Person FREE

Designing Dreams into Reality: Inside DIP Studio’s Process

3pm-5pm
Dip Studio
In Person FREE

AI Create: How AI is Shaping Creative Futures

4pm-5pm
Mohammad Khan with Di Le, Brent Summers, and Wendy Ginsberg
In Person $25

SD Design Trek

5pm
SD Design Trek
In Person FREE

Designing Memory: Visual Storytelling with Dave Eassa

6pm-7pm
California Center for the Arts Museum
In Person FREE

Common Grounds | Coffee and Community

L’Anima

Fri September, 18

In Person $495

DDX San Diego

9am-5pm
Design Drives & FreshForm
In Person FREE

Downtown Public Art Tour with Real Working Public Art Administrators

10am-12pm
City of San Diego Cultural Affairs
In Person FREE

RADD Art Tour

10am-11am
Ashley Simpson
In Person FREE

MiresBall Studio Tour

Various times
MiresBall
In Person $50

Thursday VIP Happy Hour

5:30pm-7:30pm
UX Speakeasy
In Person $25.31

Holistic-Spaces Studio Tour

6pm-8pm
Holistic-Spaces Design Consultancy
In Person FREE

VAINANA: Artivism for Planetary Change

6pm-7:30pm
Lunna Pigatto

Sat September, 19

Hybrid FREE

Education Day

9am-12:30pm
Educators Alliance powered by UC San Diego Design Lab
Hybrid FREE

Happier humans, better business: The Qualcomm Technologies AI blueprint

9am-1pm
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
In Person FREE

UC San Diego North Torrey Pines Living & Learning Neighborhood

9am-11am
Jeff Larsen, Eric Lindebak, Kyle Fiddelke
Virtual FREE

Designing Classrooms that Foster Friendship and Fun

10am
Jared Hippler, Founder of A Primally Playful Foundation
Virtual FREE

Creative Misuse: Using AI to Break and Rebuild your Thinking

11am-12:15pm
Prashant Anilkumar
Virtual FREE

Designing the Fifth Industrial Revolution

11am-12pm
Last Human
In Person FREE

SmithGroup Office Tour

12pm-4pm
SmithGroup
In Person $50

Friday VIP Happy Hour

5:30pm-7:30pm
UX Speakeasy
In Person FREE

San Diego Made LIVE!

6:30pm-9:30pm
The San Diego Made Factory
In Person FREE

Mindful Data Audiovisual Project: Real-Time AV from Biometric Signals

7pm-11pm
MDAP
In Person FREE

Common Grounds | Coffee and Community

L’Anima

Sun September, 20

In Person FREE

Digital Witness: Student Typographic Explorations

10am-1pm
Point Loma Nazarene University | Graphic Design, BA
In Person FREE

From Designer to Entrepreneur: The Comprehensive Guide to Running Your Own Design Business.

10:15am-11am
Joan Maloney, owner of Studio 318
In Person FREE

Leadership for Impact: How to Unlock Your Potential as a Design Impact Maker

11am-11:45am
Desi Guusje Bendeler
In Person FREE

ReVision: An Inclusive Studio & Artmaking Experience

11am-4pm
Revision Creative Workspace
Virtual FREE

Tech Innovation for Impact: AI and UX Driving the Future of Inclusive Mobility and Tourism

11:30am-12pm
Shima Solati
In Person $20

Design, Dim Sum and District Pride

12pm-2pm
SEGD San Diego; AIGA San Diego/Tijuana; and Asian Business Association of San Diego; Bennett Peji
In Person FREE

Guided Tour of Murals of La Jolla

12pm-2pm
Murals of La Jolla
In Person FREE

Start, Stop, Heal: Designing Digital Health for Intermittent Use

12pm-12:45pm
Dr. Steph Habif
In Person FREE

“Textile paintings, a journey through an interdisciplinary practice” Lecture by Oslyn Whizar

1pm
Visions Museum of Textile Art
In Person FREE

Balancing user and business needs

1pm-1:45pm
Michelle Heffron
In Person FREE

Beyond 101: Data analysis with Dovetail

2pm-3pm
Bryan Rill, Brie James
In Person FREE

Beyond Solutions: Designing What Designs. MetaDesign and the Architecture of Possibility

3pm-5pm
Remy Bourganel, Don Norman
In Person FREE

Elevated by Design: The Brown Studio SDDW Dinner Celebration

4pm-8pm
The Brown Studio
In Person $50

Saturday VIP Happy Hour

5:30pm-9pm
UX Speakeasy
In Person FREE

Common Grounds | Coffee and Community

L’Anima

Mon September, 21

In Person FREE

“Border Echoes: Art as Resistance and Reclamation

10am-5pm
Ana Maria Herrera
In Person FREE

CASA PAREDITA

10am-5pm
Xinyu Yan
In Person FREE

Designing with Impact: Lessons from the Wild

10am-5pm
inter-twined
Hybrid FREE

El Gráfiko Re:Mixed

10am-5pm
Máximo Escobedo / Maximo Creative Communications
Hybrid FREE

REFUGEOLY. Play as a refugee as you try and navigate your way to safety.

10am-5pm
Vicente Esteban / https://www.refugeoly.org/
In Person FREE

Threadspell

10am-5pm
Rachel Ehlin Smith
In Person FREE

VAGARy: Unbound Construct – The intersection between Fashion, Art and Design

10am-5pm
Eclectique Mode by Olga Cecilia
In Person FREE

Sustainable & legally protected

10:15am-10:55am
Be Legal Tj
In Person FREE

Tea-ming Up for Health: Design Thinking Workshop

10:15am-11:15am
Jacobs Institute for Innovation in Education
In Person FREE

Weaving Stories: Burmese Textiles & Mindful Design

10:15am-11:15am
The Saint
In Person FREE

Age-Friendly Communities: Enhancing the economic, civic, and social vitality of San Diego

11am-11:40am
Lisa Rill, PhD /Rill Insights & Design
In Person FREE

Guided Tour of Murals of La Jolla

11am-1pm
Murals of La Jolla
In Person FREE

Movement Storytelling Lab: Designing Visual Narratives for Equity & Impact

11:15am-12:15pm
Hundred Hands Learning Lab (H2L2)
Virtual FREE

Experience Innovation: Redefining Accessible Parking Experience & Mobility

11:45am-12:15pm
Hoda Solati
In Person FREE

SDXD Presents: Designing the Communities We Want to Be a Part Of – Ft Sheba Najmi

1pm-3pm
SDXD (San Diego Experience Design)
In Person FREE

Self-Portrait as Divine Reclamation

1pm-3:30pm
Womanity Portrait Foundation
In Person FREE

Ancient Wisdom for Design Solutions

2:30pm-4pm
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
Virtual FREE

Design for Impact: From the Aesthetics of Appearance to the Aesthetics of Care

3pm-4pm
Francisco Platas Lopez

Upcoming Program

In Person FREE

Civic Center Plaza: Visual Strategies for Public Space (Working Title)

Maximo Escobedo (Partners TBD) possibly AIGA, City of San Diego & DSDP
In Person FREE

Como si mi coyote viviera aqui / As if my coyote lived here

perro y arena
In Person FREE

Cultura FC

PUPILA / Equipo FC / Barrio Junto
In Person $50

Influencing Chinese Art with Qi Flow

Danielle Zhang
Virtual FREE

Layered Realities: How Collage Can Change Perspectives

Kristine Garcia
In Person $10

Next-Gen Coffee

Adore Coffee House
In Person FREE

Through the Looking Glass

Border UX // Aaron Martlage

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