In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
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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Good-to-Go EDBO

By Steven Hunsicker | Ruhi Dholakia | Youqi Wang "

May 11, 2023

Fig. 2. Systems dynamics maps are a key tool in the framework, enabling the visualization of variables governing the flow of different types of capital, feedback between variables and drivers and barriers in the system. Barriers are represented by variables that have a large number of inflow arrows as they require multiple types of resources from different variables. Drivers are represented by variables that have a larger number of outflow arrows as they exert greater influence on other variables in the system.

A digital project process guide

Good-to-Go EDBO is a comprehensive toolkit that empowers companies to develop digital products without established processes and procedures. It provides a step-by-step process map for the entire EDBO journey (Explore, Design, Build, Optimize), along with essential templates such as a design brief, checkpoint audit, user journey map, task list, and a product requirement document. This streamlines the team’s efforts and maximizes efficiency, accelerating digital product development and reducing uncertainties. By using Good-to-Go EDBO, businesses can achieve greater success in their endeavors.