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Dr. Kristian Simsarian is the undergraduate Interaction Design program chair at California College of the Arts (CCA). He believes in the power of design to simplify, enrich, and transform our lives and the world. His work focuses on bringing innovative human-centered design and strategy to meaningful fruition for companies and institutions, from pixels to processes.
He brings a deep, diverse, and international background to his project work and to the creative teams he leads that span from healthcare to high-tech. In addition to his own publications and patents, Kristian’s work has been featured inBusiness Week, The New York Times, and Metropolis magazine, as well as being highlighted in business books on innovation and interaction design.
Kristian cofounded the Software Experiences practice at IDEO and was a practice director with a focus on mobile. Kristian has led design innovation initiatives for many of the world’s largest brands. He also is an adjunct professor in the Graduate Program in Design at CCA in San Francisco. He lives in a former fixer-upper Victorian in San Francisco with his psychologist wife and and his joyful red-haired baby daughter Trixie.
Watch Kristian speak at UX Week, a conference organized by Adaptive Path (2011).
