Northwest Design Profile: Tom Hobbs

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Tom Hobbs

Interaction Design Manager, TEAGUE

As Interaction Design Manager, Tom Hobbs provides inspiration, motivation and direction for Teague’s design team. Originally from the UK, he studied at the Leeds College of Art and the University of Wales. Tom has been in the industry for over fifteen years, working with the legendary Colors Magazine and clients such as Sony, Nikon, Sprint, Verizon, Wells Fargo and Amazon. He joined Teague in 2010 and currently works closely with high-tech giants Microsoft and Intel. Tom has received numerous awards over the course of his career, including accolades from IDEA, iF, and Red Dot. In 2000, he was named one of ID Magazine's Forty Under Thirty. His work has been published in a variety of publications, including The Guardian and The New York Times.  An inveterate globetrotter, Tom has traveled extensively both for work and for pleasure. He’s visited all but one of the world's continents (Australia is yet to be checked off the list); so it’s no surprise that airport kiosks top the list of things he'd like to redesign. He believes in bringing passion to everything he does. ”Indifference,“ he says, “is a disease.”



Tom Hobbs will be speaking at the IDSA Western Design Dialogue Conference 2012 in Seattle, May 4th and 5th.  His presentation will be about:


Making Things in a Digital World.


"Many designers are drawn to the profession because of an innate desire to create things. Real things. They’re the kind of people that as children loved to create pictures, build models, construct legos, or explore programming computers. It’s the pursuit of tangibly affecting the world around us by actually adding new things to it. Ironically, the practice of fully–fledged designers is a little more abstract, particularly for interaction designers. It is less about exploring an analog of the actual ‘thing’; instead it is about creating descriptions, diagrams, and specifications of what we believe the end result should be.  As we move to a design world that is dominated by creation of digital experiences and devices that house them, what does it mean to make our design practices about ‘making things’?"



More speakers will be featured here and listed on the IDSA website.To learn more about the conference check the IDSA site page here.Save money by registering before April 20th.

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