Designer-in-Residence

The Office of the Vice President for Research at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has engaged Dr. Deana McDonagh, Chair of the Industrial Design Program in the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois and Beckman Institute, as a new Designer-in-Residence. In this role, she will be assisting University of Illinois inventors and entrepreneurs to incorporate product design in their technology development to help improve user experiences and performance of products to meet customer needs. Her research concentrates on emotional user-product relationships and how empathy can bring the designer closer to users’ authentic need, and she has completed consumer product design for industrial clients in her extensive experience with new product development. If you are interested in working with Deana to help your new product or user experience, please complete a request for assistance at http://go.illinois.edu/designerinresidence.