- He is Adjunct Professor in the Design Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Stanford University.
- Professor of Industrial and Interaction Design at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
- He worked for more than twenty years with IDEO, Inc., the global design and innovation consultancy, where he conducted front-end research in support of IDEO project work. He consults with governments, companies, and academic institutions worldwide on issues pertaining to design and innovation.
Barry Katz
Visiting Lecturer
Programs and courses:
Academic Experience
- Barry was educated at McGill University in Montréal, the London School of Economics, and holds a doctorate from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
- Barry is the author of eight books, including Change By Design with Tim Brown, (Harper Collins, 2009/2019), which explores design thinking as a strategy of business; NONOBJECT, with Branko Lukic, (MIT, 2010), a conceptual exploration of “the space between person and product;” Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design (MIT Press, Fall 2015), which has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish; and Rx: Design. Strategies for Healthcare Innovation (University of Toronto Press).
- A new book, The Architecture of Information: Structure and Symbol for the Age of Data, is in progress. His writings on design as a strategy of innovation have appeared in many academic, professional, and popular journals.
