David Kelley (engineer)
David M. Kelley (* 1951 ) is a professor at Stanford University and founder and chairman of IDEO . Kelley is the eponym and one of the pioneers of the design thinking innovation method .
Work and creation
After graduating as an electrical engineer from Carnegie Mellon University , he worked for several years in the development departments of NCR and Boeing . After hearing about a new course in product design at Stanford University, he received his second degree there in 1978.
In 1978, Kelley founded his first company Hovey-Kelley together with Dean Hovey, which was later renamed David Kelley Design after Hovey's departure . There was u. a. the first computer mouse developed for Apple .
In 1991 he merged his company with two other design studios to form IDEO . At the same time he began teaching at Stanford in 1978 and became a full professor there in 1991. He is co-founder and director of d.school - the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design .
Awards and honors
On the occasion of Stanford's centenary, David Kelley was honored by the university for his “mixture of drive and unlimited imagination”. In 2000, Kelley received the Chrysler Design Award and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering . In 2001, Kelley and IDEO received the Smithsonian Institute's National Design Award. In 2002 he was appointed Donald W. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering by Stanford. In 2009, Kelley received the Edison Achievement Award from Rutgers University , and in 2020 he was awarded the Bernard M. Gordon Prize .
Publications (selection)
- Kelley, David; Kelley, Tom: Creativity and Confidence: The Key to Your Creativity Awareness . Schmidt, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-87439-859-6
Web links
- David Kelley via Design Thinking , accessed February 21, 2009
- (Video) TED Talk 2002 by David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered , accessed February 20, 2009
- David Kelley gave a talk at Stanford as part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series in 2001, video , accessed April 28, 2009
- David Kelley's biography on ideo.com , accessed February 20, 2009
- Literature by and about David Kelley in the catalog of the German National Library
References
- ↑ BusinessWeek: Design's New School Of Thought Interview, August 1, 2005
- ↑ Stanford University: "Making the Macintosh" - Interview with David Kelley ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ d.school: David Kelley Biography
- ↑ Chrysler Design Award 2000 for David Kelley ( Memento of the original of September 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 20, 2009
- ↑ Product Design Award 2001 for David Kelley and IDEO ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 30, 2009
- ↑ FastCompany article on the Edison Award for Innovation , accessed February 20, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kelley, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kelley, David M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |