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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Tiago Baccarelli Justino

Senior Manager, Design Strategy, EY

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Tiago serves as adjunct professor at the Institute of Design, teaching Innovation Implementation since 2019. In addition, Tiago also teaches Design Strategy and Design Thinking at EY in its global Future Advantage program and US Learning program. Tiago has Master of Design degree from the Institute of Design (ID), an MBA from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Stuart School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Marketing, and Logistics from Penn State University.

Industry Experience

Tiago is a design strategist, the EY wavespace San Francisco and San Jose Leader, Health Sciences and Wellness Leader, and Americas Design Practice Leader. As such, he collaborates with leading companies in consumer packaged goods and retail, technology, media and entertainment, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, and agriculture. Some of his clients include Disney, Corteva, Chevron, Merck, Pfizer, J&J, Takeda, Boeing, Mars Inc., Cisco, Providence, and Centra. In addition, Tiago is a customer advisory board member at Adobe.

Tiago’s client-serving role is currently focused on the Life Sciences and Healthcare industries, supporting clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck, Takeda, UHG, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente and Providence.

He has more than 20 years of experience, including design strategy, retail design, communication, business model development, and marketing and design research. He has managed multiple teams of designers and design suppliers for several projects focused on innovation and design strategy.

His previous career experience includes marketing, channel management, and advising startup entrepreneurs.

Speaking and Publishing

Tiago is trained facilitator and main stage presenter having participated on multiple programs to companies such as Mars Inc., Johnson and Johnson and Merck for several years, in addition to cross-company conferences such as Collaborate with the Retail Design Institute in August 2021.