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Chris Skoog is a Senior Arts and Entertainment Technologies Major in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Samantha Valdez is a Senior Arts and Entertainment Technologies Major in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Lorenzo, the Assistant Dean for UT's School of Design and Creative Technologies, is recognized as a top innovator in Texas for her leading role in the design-thinking movement. "We want to create good people who can go out to the world and do things, whether for profit or nonprofit, that are good. That's how you change the world." 

Assistant Dean Doreen Lorenzo sits down with Steph Hay, vice president of design at Capital One, as part of her "Designing Women" series. AI is shaping the future of the economy, says Hay. What role will designers play? 

Integrated Design Lecturer Jennifer Sukis’ proposal “Communication Model for Cognitive Systems,” which is the basis for her Design Strategies course “Advanced Design for AI” this spring, has been submitted for patenting at IBM. 

Design Lecturer James Walker’s nonprofit Type Hike is now on exhibit at The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) at Art Center in Pasadena, California, through Feb. 25. He will speak there Jan. 30 about his work and the project. Two additional series from Type Hike were recently added to the permanent collection of the Library of Congress with the Popular & Applied Graphic Arts.

The Type Hike is a collaborative non-profit design project that celebrates and supports the outdoors through typography.

Doreen Lorenzo, director of the School of Design and Creative Technologies and the Center for Integrated Design in the College of Fine Arts, is leading efforts to integrate design thinking across The University of Texas at Austin’s undergraduate curriculum. Read the Q&A to find out why Lorenzo believes design thinking is a problem-solving skill set that all students should learn.

This spring, the College of Fine Arts and the School of Design and Creative Technologies are launching “Pathways to Entrepreneurship,” a new program designed to build community and bring together like-minded entrepreneurs, creative students and faculty through events, programming and mentorship.

Associate Professor of Design Kate Catterall is a designer, design researcher, and educator who studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Her research currently focuses on the ethical dilemmas faced by designers (and society) as the far-reaching consequences of the design act and the broader role of the designer in culture are reassessed. We recently caught up with her to talk about her work and research.

The Design Institute for Health will co-present "What’s the Fix?" on May 17. This free conference provides a platform for patients and the general public to explain their healthcare struggles to workers in the industry with the goal of finding patient-centered solutions. LEARN MORE.