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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Robin Kwong

Product Director at Yahoo News

Robin is Product Director of Data Services at Yahoo News, where he leads a team developing new tools, ranking, and other products that use data to provide context and guide people through everyday decisions.

A longtime journalist at The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times before he became a product leader, Robin has always worked at the cutting edge of technology, information, and design. He created The Uber Game, an award-winning news game about the experience of full-time Uber drivers that has been played by more than half a million people. He is the author of Project Management in Newsrooms, a practical guide to executing complex projects within the fast-moving journalism environments, and he is co-founder of the Contemporary Narratives Lab, which brings artists, journalists, and researchers together to create works that explore new ways of storytelling that support healthier societies.

Shapeshift Session

New York Salon Recap: The Future of Media & Information | Thursday, May 29

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