Design How
Tuesday 20th October
6.00pm - 9.30pm
Royal Northern College of Music
124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD
In conversation with
IDEO
Territory Studio
Ben Terrett
Clive Grinyer
Angus Montgomery (Design Week)
Clive Grinyer
Angus Montgomery (Design Week)
An evening delving into creative minds and finding out HOW. Underpinning
this year’s theme of discovery we host some of the UK’s greatest thinkers,
creatives and doers for an evening of discovering how they address complex
issues within design.
We are proud to welcome IDEO a a global design company who create impact
through design. Steve O’Connor, IDEO’s Executive Design Director will talk
about IDEO’s customer-focused approach and how re-thinking design adds value to
the world and customers.
Territory Studio are a boutique creative studio specialising in motion,
digital and graphic design. They are best known for their immersive UI work on
films such as Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, Marvel’s Guardians of The
Galaxy and Avengers.
Ben Terrett is Director of Design at the Government Digital Service (GDS)
where he leads a multi-disciplinary design team working across government
departments on the gov.uk website. He joined the Cabinet Office in 2012 when
GDS was set up to deliver the recommendations in Martha Lane Fox’s “Digital by
Default” report. Ben will talk about his inspiration and design process in
creating gov.uk and changing culture through digital design.
To complement the theme of Design How we welcome Clive Grinyer. Clive
founded design consultancy Tangerine with Jonathan Ive in 1989 and has held
distinguished design positions at Samsung, Design Council, Orange & Cisco.
Clive is now Customer Experience Director in the Design Office of Barclays
Bank, where he helps to develop new digital design projects with a specific
focus on UX and UI. He brings a wealth of design experience to bear on ensuring
technology projects are usable and accessible for all.
A Q&A panel discussion involving all of the speakers will be hosted by
Angus Montgomery of Design Week.
