The New York Times Interactive Media Designer, Renda Morton, will give a lecture at 6 p.m. Monday, March 13 in Kleymeyer Hall located in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center at the University of Southern Indiana. Morton will discuss what a user-centered design process is and how designers use it at The New York Times. USI Art and Design students designed the publicity poster for the event, which is sponsored by USI’s College of Liberal Arts Art and Design Department. The event is free and open to the public.
Morton holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interactive Media from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She currently is the executive director of product design at The New York Times, design lead on the 2014 redesign of NYTimes.com, co-lead of the Times’s Beta Team, which creates new digital products and services. She previously worked on physical interactive media at the design studio, Lust in the Netherlands, and founded and ran a small, multi-disciplinary design studio, Rumors.
For more information contact, Xinran Hu, associate professor of graphic design, at 812-465-1296 or xhu@usi.edu.
