Jane Fulton Suri
As a partner and creative director at IDEO, Jane plays a global leadership role, evolving content and craft, human insight, and design thinking in support of client projects worldwide. She came to design from psychology and architecture with a pioneering ambition to integrate social science-based perspectives with design practice and to foster a community of collaborators. She is the author of Thoughtless Acts? (Chronicle, 2005), a photo book about the subtle and amusing ways in which people interact with the world. Jane believes that design, like life, is about seeking creative harmonies with elements of our world—a belief also exhibited in her enthusiasm for wilderness sports.
Topics Jane speaks on:
- Design Research
- Design Thinking
- Human Factors
- Human-Centered Design
- User Interface Design
Prior speaking engagements:
July 2002, keynote speech, Third Annual Design and Emotion Conference
October 2005, Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society
September 2005, World Ageing & Generations Congress
October 2006, Collaborative Innovation Summit, Business Innovation Factory
April 2007, keynote speech, “Involving People in the Process,” Include 2007 Conference
Published works:
Thoughtless Acts? Chronicle Books (2005)
“Insights from ‘Thoughtless Acts,’” Businessweek.com (August 2005)
“The Science of Desire,” BusinessWeek (June 2006)
“Going Deeper, Seeing Further: Enhancing Ethnographic Interpretations to Reveal More Meaningful Opportunities for Design,” Journal of Advertising Research (September 2006)
Interview, Creative Generalist.com (November 2006)
“Informing Our Intuition: Design Research for Radical Innovation,” Rotman magazine (Winter 2008)