Biography
Dirk Knemeyer is a catalyst for developing new ideas and inspiring people and groups to create meaningful change. He is a Founder of Involution Studios LLC, a digital product design firm in Silicon Valley, where he is responsible for the business success of the company. Previously Dirk was the Chief Design Officer at Thread Inc.
Dirk is the President of the User Experience Network (UXnet) and has served on the Board of Directors for numerous companies and organizations. He has been a keynote speaker and given presentations all around the world, along with having published over 100 articles on business and design topics. Dirk's diverse professional background includes time as a management consultant, advertising executive, and design director.
Dirk earned a Master of Arts in Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, a multi-disciplinary program that synthesizes methods from sociology, psychology and anthropology. His deep understanding of the relationship between people, culture and experiences enables him to lead major change in both product development and business management environments.
Presentation Title: “The Future of Digital Product Design”
Take a Blackberry, a refrigerator and Minority Report-style interface technology and what do you have? A rapidly converging digital world. We all know it is happening, but just what is happening and why remain big, hairy, confusing problems. Dirk will provide a brief historical context for digital product design before exploring the prevailing trends at work in the world today, the fundamentals of digital product design, what digital product design looks like today, and a sweeping look ahead into the future.