Faculty Director, M.A. in Design focused on Health Associate Professor, Design
Tamie Glass is a distinguished educator, designer, and author. Before joining the School of Design and Creative Technologies as the inaugural faculty director of the MA in Design focused on Health program, Tamie was a tenured faculty member and the director of the Interior Design program at the University of Texas School of Architecture.
Tamie launched her international career at Daimler in Germany, where she designed corporate identity projects for the Mercedes-Benz brand. She also gained several years of experience in London working with top firms, including Virgile and Stone and Conran and Partners. Her professional practice spans creating high-end hospitality and retail environments throughout the EU and Asia, as well as healthcare, wellness, corporate, and residential spaces in the US. Additionally, Tamie has facilitated numerous design thinking workshops for non-designers and served as a design consultant to other campus units, including holding positions as visiting directors at the Dell Medical School's Design Institute for Health and the Blanton Museum of Art.
Tamie's teaching and research focus on designing for human behavior. Her book, Prompt: Socially Engaging Objects and Environments, was awarded the Interior Design Educators Council's book of the year for 2020. Most recently, Tamie was awarded the 2025 Joel Polsky Prize from the American Society of Interior Designers Foundation for her co-edited publication People and Spaces: Experience, Ethics, and Intent.
Tamie Glass received her education at the University of Oregon, where she earned a Master's in Interior Architecture, and also holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from Texas A&M University. She is an avid collaborator and advocate for human-centered design, and a recipient of the prestigious Luminary Award, given by ASID, for advancing the interior design profession through a career of outstanding education, advocacy, and research. The University of Texas System has also recognized Tamie with a Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.