In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design came under new management. This website is an archive of the impactful and inspirational work produced by the ID community before that transition.

László Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, treating design as a discipline that was teachable, testable, and consequential. Nine decades on, its scope had widened from the things people use to the systems they depend on: hospitals, government agencies, classrooms, supply chains, digital platforms. Along the way, ID community members developed the published research, methods, and frameworks that designers rely on every day.

Chief among them is human-centered design: close attention to how people actually live, and advocacy for what that research reveals. It shaped designers who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: curious, rigorous, inclusive, and stubbornly optimistic about design's ability to change the systems that shape our lives.

To every one of them, who taught, studied, built, critiqued, and stayed late in the studio: thank you, and keep designing.

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Past Event

2019 Spring recruitID

March 13-15, 2019
IIT Institute of Design
3137 S Federal St 2nd floor
Chicago, IL 60616

Find out why IIT Institute of Design graduates lead strategy, research, and user experience design at organizations like Google, Facebook, IDEO, Salesforce, IA Collaborative, GE, McKinsey, Lunar, Autodesk, Doblin, Uber, SAP, Method, Steelcase, IBM, Capital One, UnitedHealth Group, and more.


Our annual Spring recruiting event connects organizations and our graduate students on-site for full-time, part-time, or internship positions. As our largest recruiting event, attendees will have the ability to interview for up to 1.5 days in our beautiful new building on IIT’s Main Campus and take part in facilitated roundtables and a networking reception.


A new platform for scheduling interviews


We are using the Handshake platform to allow companies to post their open positions, view ID applicants, and select interview candidates that are then scheduled through the platform. For more information about this tool, visit www.joinhandshake.com/employers. A resume book will also be available for walk-in slots. More information will be provided after registration.


Please note: Each attendee from the organization must purchase an individual ticket; there are no group tickets this year.


Our graduates work at:


Autodesk / Capital One / Conifer Research / Doblin/Deloitte / Facebook / GE / Gensler / Google / IBM / IA Collaborative / Insitum / IDEO / Jump Associates / Lunar / MAYA / Mayo Clinic / McKinsey / Method / Moment / McDonald’s / Nestlé Purina / Salesforce / Samsung / SAP / Steelcase / SC Johnson / Teague / Uber / UnitedHealth Group/ Whirlpool / Wrigley


Our graduates have titles like:


Design Planner / Design Strategist / Senior Innovation Strategist / Director of Product Development / Director of Innovation Methods / Director of User Research / Brand Strategist / Director of Interaction Design / Senior Information Architect / Director of Strategy and New Business Development / Digital Enterprise Strategist / Director of Experience Design / Senior UX Researcher and Strategist

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