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A conversation with Ed Niehaus, new CEO of Cooper
by The Editors
A few weeks ago, Cooper appointed Ed Niehaus as President & CEO. Ed is a Valley veteran, with a rich background is in public relations, branding and business-building. He met Alan when Visual Basic was merely a twinkle in Alan's eye, and since then, Ed has worked with a long... (Continue)
A “to do” list for integrating design into your organization
by Kim Goodwin
The good news: whether it’s thanks to the economy or to the iPhone, more senior executives understand that they need to get some design love. The bad news: Most expect that it will be easy. Most execs who want to integrate design into their organizations (or expand the role of... (Continue)
Each One, Teach One: Get Involved in Mentoring!
by Kim Goodwin
In my closing keynote at Interactions 09, I spoke about some of the challenges facing interaction design as a profession, perhaps the most important of which is a shortage of designers just when the world is starting to demand what we do. Increasing numbers of college and university programs will... (Continue)

Welcome to Michael Voege, Director of Industrial Design!

by Dave Cronin on July 14, 2008

Some of the most exciting and challenging products we’ve designed here at Cooper have involved a physical component. We admit it, we’re greedy: we want to do more fun projects like that. So without further ado, we’re excited to announce that Michael Voege has joined Cooper as the Director of Industrial Design. We fundamentally believe that interaction, industrial and visual design must be closely coordinated to create user experiences that delight and engage. Bringing in Michael, with his experience, creativity and crazy design mojo, will help us interweave these disciplines even more tightly as we grow our own in-house industrial design department.

Michael comes to Cooper from frog design, where he was an Associate Creative Director. During his 10+ year career he has worked on consumer products, software user interfaces, automotive interiors, furniture, and medical and industrial equipment, among others. Michael was educated at ArtCenter College of Design in Switzerland, and in Pasadena where he studied Transportation and Industrial Design.

Filed under: Cooper, Industrial design

Dave Cronin

is a director at Cooper, where he works with teams to design all kinds of products for people like doctors, investment wizards, architects, people renovating their homes, the elderly, various business folks and people planning trips together. Dave is also frequent instructor at the Cooper Interaction Design Practicum, was a co-author of About Face 3 and is currently the Design Community Editor (and author) for Interactions Magazine


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On Jul 18, 2008, Honoria Starbuck said:


Michael Voege, as usual, is invited to Bring shows + tells, inforgasms, big fibs, success stories and vice versa.

Midsummer night's post-morning pozole at the Austin Visual Thinking Consortium

on the deck of
El Sol y La Luna
So. congresso, austin, tx
at 12:30 Saturday as usual

congrats on your new job!
honoria and the knutster

 

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