Ariel Cotton
Ariel Cotton is an interdisciplinary artist and designer. Her work straddles the boundaries between art and technologyranging from comics to product design to electronic installations and devices. Her work has been featured internationally in solo and group exhibits in locations and events such as the MoMA, the Brooklyn Museum, Maker Faire and Pioneer Works. It has been written up in publications and blogs including The Huffington Post, Make Magazine, Laughing Squid, Technically Brooklyn, and The Brooklyn Paper. Cotton's work can be viewed here.
Talk: The World Is Your Interface
Just because you've closed Adobe CS and shut down your computer doesn't mean you're done designing. When you stop working on a product with user needs to consider, it doesn't mean you have stopped interacting with users. Design principles are implicit in every facet of life, from conversations with people to navigating a city to helping a loved one get through a difficult time. This talk will examine how traits such as empathy, usability, structure, aesthetics, and intuition cross over between design and the rest of life, and how going through painful, uncomfortable and scary experiences can turn you into a better designer.
