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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Shapeshift Summit: Speakers

Global thought leaders reframe AI through a human-centered lens.

Speakers will share insights from pioneering organizations on AI’s potential to help individuals, economies, and communities.

Speakers

Abdulaziz AlJaziri

Deputy CEO & COO of Dubai Future Foundation, UAE

Amit Kundal

Associate Dean at FLAME University, India

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Amy Guterman

Senior Director of Innovation, Philanthropy at Salesforce

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Anamitra Deb

Senior Vice President of Programs and Policy at Omidyar Network

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Avani Agarwal

Product Designer at WhatsApp

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Brian Walker

Chief Product Officer, W.W. Grainger, Inc.

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Chelsea Pratt

Design Lead & Strategist at ThoughtFull

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Ellie Kemery

Principal AI User Research Lead at SAP Business AI

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Fredrik Holmén

Founding partner & AI Lead, Eidra

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Jeff Hsu

Chief Innovation Officer at Far Eastern Group, Taiwan

Jon Friedman

Corporate Vice President of Design and Research for Microsoft 365

Judd Morgenstern, Institute of Design Board Member

Judd Morgenstern

Co-Managing Partner, Partners Resolute

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Kazumasa (Kevin) Yamada

Managing Partner at BIOTOPE, Japan

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Kelly Franznick

Co-Founder & CXO at Blink UX

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Kevin Bethune

Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life

Kunitake Saso

CEO & Founder of BIOTOPE, Japan

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Liz Danzico

VP of Design for Microsoft AI & Founding Chair of the MFA in Interaction Design at SVA

Moneta Ho Kushner

Director, Head of Consumer Design at WhatsApp

Ravi Mahamuni

Head of Design Research Lab, TCS Research, India

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Robin Kwong

Product Director at Yahoo News

Rohit Prasad

SVP & Head Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon

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Ruth Kikin-Gil

Responsible AI Strategist at Microsoft

Ryan Powell

Director, Head of User Experience at Waymo

TB Bardlavens

Director of Product, Product Equity at Adobe

Terry Williams-Willcock

Chief Customer Officer at RUSH Digital, New Zealand

Summit Co-Hosts

Anijo Mathew

Anijo Mathew

Dean and Professor of Entrepreneurship & Urban Technology

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Albert Shum

Advisor to the Dean

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