Boundary Spanning Faculty
The MDes is an interdisciplinary program. That means its faculty are not from one department; they come from across the university. The researchers who teach in this program work on AI and automation, public health, urban equity, and civic design, among other areas.
Program Leadership
Michael W. Meyer
MDes Program Director · Associate Professor of Design and Rady School of Management
Research: design-driven organizational transformation and design pedagogy.
Steven P. Dow
MDes Associate Program Director · Professor, Department of Cognitive Science
Research: human-computer interaction, social computing, creativity support, and civic design.
Design Lab Faculty
Elizabeth V. Eikey
Assistant Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
Eric Hekler
Professor & Associate Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
