Redesigning the Museum Experience at Cooper Hewitt

With the stroke of a super-powered digital pen, the Cooper Hewitt reinvents itself and the very way that visitors experience a museum.

The Future of Wearable Technology and Experience Design

Technically, the Apple Watch, Jawbone UP, and Google Glass are nothing new. Wearable technology has been around since the early 17th century, when Chinese mathematicians adapted the abacus as a ring. Soon after, the pocket watch caught on in Europe—offering humans the first wearable, mobile technology that augmented their awareness of time, space, and environmental conditions.

Interactive Media and Digital Storytelling at the Penn Museum

When the Penn Museum launched its long-term exhibition Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now, its goal was to challenge some common misconceptions by showing how today’s Native American leaders are creating political, religious, linguistic, and artistic independence. A suite of interactives by Bluecadet (Philadelphia) helps tell those stories.

Bluecadet Creates Monticello App

Bluecadet (Philadelphia) created the new mobile app "Slavery at Monticello: Life and Work on Mulberry Row" for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.

Xlab 2015: Transforming X

Immersion Room, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum (by Local Projects)

Artists, coders, hackers, and technologists are shaping the future of experience design, and at Xlab 2015, the SEGD design + technology event, they’ll show how they’re using platforms like wearables, virtual reality, beacons, and code to tell stories and transform places. Where do you fit in all of this? Find out at Xlab 2015: Transforming X—November 5-6 in New York!

Jared Ficklin

Jared Ficklin is a designer and technologist with two decades experience creating products and visions for major companies.

A former frog design fellow, he is now partner and lead creative technologist for product design and invention firm argodesign.

Austin, TX

Klaus Bjerager

Klaus Bjerager has worked with IA and wayfinding over the years in two different capacities: as an information architect (both in the "traditional" analog way and as defined by Morville and Rosenfield for the web) and as an educator.

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Unified Field Creates WWII Museum Interactives

Unified Field (New York) created a suite of interactive experiences for the National World War II Museum's new Campaigns of Courage pavilion, The Road to Berlin.

Xploring Content at Xplorer Digital Camp

Creating Digital Content at SEGD Xplorer Digital Camp

Creating experiences in the age of digital technology means using new tools and even new parts of your brain to create content. Xplorer Digital Camp West—in Seattle Aug. 6—will introduce you to the tools and techniques you’ll need to create next-gen experiences, from video, type, and image to data and code. Join us in Seattle! (Better hurry, seats are filling fast!)

Building the Brand, Texas Style

Deep in the heart of Texas, where football and tradition are sacred, Texas A&M University continues to build its dynasty—and its brand. With a new $17 million, state-of-the art training facility designed by Populous, the Aggies keep showing how it’s done—building both a powerhouse football team and a sophisticated branded experience.

Design Lead Rameen Khan	Owner Kimberly (Kim) Lindstrom	Wayfinding Consultant Elise de Jong
Graphic Designer Marc Jenkins	Experiential Graphic Designer Jacob McCoy	Founder and Co-Director Mike Heine

SEGD

Interface Design