Northwest Design Profile: Nikki Pfarr of Artefact
Concept Camera: The WVIL from Artefact on Vimeo . Nikki Pfarr is a Senior Design Strategist at Artefact and a former Ph.D. Candidate at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She is a founding partner of the Brains, Behavior & Design Group, and was previously a UX Designer at Google. Nikki holds a Master's of Design from IIT’s Institute of Design and a B.S. from MIT. She has led workshops on incorporating behavioral economics into user-centered design for the IIT Institute of Design Executive Education summer camp series, the Chicago chapter of the IxDA, and various Artefact clients. Nikki's original research on the implications of behavioral economics on design research practices was published in the 2010 Conference Proceedings of the International Design Research Society. Nikki Pfarr, Senior Design Strategist at Artefact Nikki will be speaking at the IDSA Western Design Dialogue Conference 2012 in Seattle, May 4th and 5th. ...