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Webinar: Design Research: Getting to know Your Users

Design research is an investigation based on empathy, insight and understanding (a fundamental element of building successful digital experiences). In this members-only webinar, learn how it can help designers discover what tasks people accomplish with digital services and devices, where they want to perform these tasks and what kind of information they need to complete them.

Design leaders maintain confidence in the design economy's growth

NEW YORK—May 14, 2012. AIGA’s Design Leaders Confidence Index rose again in the first quarter of 2012, rising from 100.71 to 104.15—the second highest level of confidence since AIGA began monitoring confidence in 2005.

NEA Awards Two Grants to AIGA

NEW YORK—April 27, 2012. This week the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced the results of its August 2011 deadline, which included support towards the development of a National Design and Social Impact Mentorship Program and 100 Years of Design in America, a series of educational videos about accomplished designers.

Design Reading: A Brand-new Conversation on AIGA.org

What role does memory play in design? Book-inspired questions like this one, sparked by Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein, are at the heart of Design Reading, an ongoing online dialogue about the influence of reading in our work.

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