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What Should the Design Process Look Like in the Age of AI?
Speaker: Jonathan Bobrow, Designer/Founder & MIT Media Lab alum
Moderator: Visakh Menon, Artist, Art Director, & Webby Award Nominee
Host: Huron Consulting, 1166 Sixth Avenue at 45 street
Date: Monday May 11. 6 pm to 8 pm.
How are AI tools like Claude Code & Figma Make changing the way digital & physical products are designed? Are they making designers obsolete or more essential than ever? What design skills will remain in long-term demand? Jonathan Bobrow, Designer/Founder & MIT Media Lab alum, will dig into these questions & more.
At Nanotronics, Jonathan is Lead Design Engineer, a cross-functional role spanning design, engineering, SEO, & product strategy. He has helped design & build modern applications for AI-powered tools in semiconductor fabrication.
Earlier Jonathan founded Move38, which builds tools for creativity such as Blinks, an open source smart-tabletop game system that raised over $500K on Kickstarter. He also spent years designing interactive museum installations for institutions including Museum of Science & Industry & the Smithsonian.
Jonathan was a TEDx speaker on how play shapes the way we think, an adjunct instructor at NYU, & an alumnus of the MIT Media Lab & UCLA Design | Media Arts.
Visakh Menon's artworks, which focus on the visual display of glitches, human error & noise, are part of the Ritz Carlton Yacht & other collections. As art director, Menon designed the Webby nominated & World Press Photo awarded Unknown Spring, an immersive digital documentary By Jake Price about Fukushima residents in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami & nuclear disaster in Japan. He also works as an independent creative director for advertising & commercial campaigns, including for Coca Cola, Walmart, Nikon, & Yardley.
He was recently the artist in residence at the Institute of Electronic Arts, at Alfred University, NY & a 2021 finalist of the BMW-India Art fair inaugural art car design commission. His artworks have been recently exhibited at The Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kristen Lorello Gallery, NY, Nature Morte Gallery & BluePrint12 Gallery, New Delhi, India, 1 x 1 Gallery, Dubai, Gallery OED, Kochi, India, & Marfa Works on paper, Marfa,TX, among other venues. His artworks are part of numerous corporate, public & private collections in the US & India.
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