Human Centered Design Workshop with IDEO

Beto Lopez of IDEO's Boston location will be visiting during the afternoon of 3/25 to run a workshop with our studio in the ID Gallery. In advance of the workshop, please read the Human Centered Design Toolkit, which can be downloaded in sections here.

Here is his bio from the 2009 Better World Conference:

Beto Lopez IDEO UPDATE

Beto Lopez is a systems designer at IDEO Boston, leading IDEO's east coast sustainability initiative working to integrate tenets of considered design across IDEO's project work.

Internally, Beto serves as a regional content guide, contributing to the way IDEO values design alternatives in the development of products and services by looking at the broader environmental and social context of their realization. Externally, he helps IDEO clients advance their social and environmental responsibility through design thinking that promotes positive impact in the made world. He regularly speaks and teaches on topics related to the intersection of design and sustainable development.

Beto came to IDEO in 2004 as an engineer, bringing experience from automotive design and research, architectural engineering and construction, and research in sustainable development. His portfolio spans work in both products and services ranging from the technical design of drug delivery devices to strategic thinking around the future of transportation.

Beto earned a BSME and an MS in Dynamic Systems and Control from the University of Texas at Austin.