educational institution in Austin, Texas,
teaching Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship.
Austin Center for Design
Austin Center for Design exists to transform society through design and design education. This transformation occurs through the development of design knowledge directed towards all forms of social and humanitarian problems.
1 Year Program
We offer a one year program—held at nights and on weekends in Austin, Texas—that emphasizes creative problem solving in the context of social issues, like poverty and nutrition. You'll learn about human behavior, technology, and novel approaches to business strategy. The program is ideal for designers, business professionals and technologists with several years of experience doing professional work, or for more established professionals looking to change the trajectory of their careers.
10 Day Programs
We also offer 10 day executive and practitioner training, for leaders and individual contributors in marketing, technology, design, non-profit and policy organizations. These programs present actionable information, and are taught by industry leaders.
AC4D recently published a new book, called Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving.
Meet Our Students
Kat Davis is a woman of many titles. She began her career with the title “business analyst” supporting national marketing campaigns for a well-known technology company. Then, for two years, Kat was known simply as “teacher” to her students in Ecuador where she volunteered with WorldTeach. Most recently, Kat has enjoyed the title “interaction designer” where she fuses technology with social good. In her free time, Kat goes by the title “improviser” and attempts... More...
From Our Blog
Maybe your company shouldn’t scale. Maybe you shouldn’t focus on making things that are different, new, novel, disruptive, and with broad appeal. Maybe, instead, your company should try to be appropriate, simple, quiet, useful, and focused. It’s a difference in aspiration. Often, I aspire for both, and when I do, I’m in conflict. I want my school to be wildly successful, and to have a massive impact, and to be well known, and to change the world. And at the same time,…
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