Action Design San Diego

The Action Design Network is a community of over five thousand practitioners and researchers worldwide interested in exploring the use of behavioral economics and psychology in the design and development of products + services that help people take action to improve their lives.

Come join us for the launch event of Action Design in San Diego at UCSD!!

We'll host a 4-person panel to discuss "The Benefits and Barriers to Doing Action Design in Various Sectors."

Panelists:
Carrie Sawyer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carriesawyer
Eric Hekler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehekler/
Michèle Morris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelelmorris
Gina Merchant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-merchant

The evening will include:
5:30 - 6:00 Food & drink while networking
6:00 - 7:00 Panel Presentation
7:00 - 8:00 Folks are free to stick around for a short discussion and more networking

The event is co-sponsored by the Design Lab & The Institute of Public Health at UC San Diego:
The UC San Diego Design Lab, led by Dr. Don Norman, is a relatively new enterprise intended to develop high visibility, high impact programs in human-centered design. We are located on the UC San Diego campus which gives us freedom to move seamlessly across all the departments, schools, and divisions of the university such as Art and Humanities, Medicine, Global Policy and Strategy, Engineering, Management, and Social Science. Our major focus is design as a way of thinking, of focusing how people interact with complex systems and technology, and ensuring that we solve the right problem, the root issues that define the true needs of the people and groups that we serve. One of the ways we work with the community is via partnerships with companies, civic entities, and community organizations. Our approach to these partnerships is one of collaboration and co-creation. Companies that we have partnered with include SAP and Nissan as founding members of the collaborative, and Adobe, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, IBM, National Science Foundation, Toyota ITC, and Viasat.

The UC San Diego Institute for Public Health (IPH) was specifically founded to facilitate multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral public health research at UC San Diego and in the greater community. Its primary mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of populations locally, nationally, and globally. This is largely accomplished through activities led by its three Working Groups, including its Technology and Public Health Working Group. Membership includes faculty from UC San Diego Bioengineering, Qualcomm Institute / CalIT2, the Center for Population and Wireless Health Systems, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health. In addition to sponsoring annual Technology-focused seminars, the IPH and its Technology Group are strongly invested in contributing to discussions about how to best incorporate Technology education and training, into existing and new FMPH Programs – and, pending UC San Diego approvals, into an innovative, newly proposed School of Public Health.