Professor Peter Jones
Peter Jones,
Ph.D. is Associate Professor at Faculty of Design at
OCAD University, Managing Partner at
Dialogic Design International, and
Managing Director at
Redesign. He is also Senior Fellow of OCADU’s Strategic Innovation
Lab, with research interests in dialogic design, scholarly and civic
media innovation, and systems and services design in healthcare.
Peter is an experienced innovation consultant and design researcher, and
the
founder of Redesign, now located in Toronto. He has designed
market-leading interactive information services for legal, medical,
educational, business, and scientific applications.
He is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design at OCAD
University, and teaches in the MDes Strategic Foresight and Innovation
program. He is a Senior Fellow of OCADU’s Strategic Innovation Lab, with
research interests in dialogic design, scholarly and civic media
innovation, and systems and services design in healthcare.
Peter is author of the 2012 Rosenfeld Media book
Design for Care:
Innovations in Healthcare Experience. Design
for Care inspires cross-sectoral systemic design by introducing
methods
and practices found effective in different healthcare contexts,
illustrated by current cases & design research.
He also published
We Tried to Warn You: Innovations in Leadership for
the Learning Organization in 2009 (Nimble Books). He wrote
Team Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to Collaborative
Innovation in
1998, and revised it in 2002.
Peter earned his B.A. in Psychology at Wright State University. He
earned his M.A. in Human Factors — Exp. Psychology at University
of Dayton in 1991 with the thesis “Advance organizers as mental models:
Do they make a difference in software usability?” He earned his Ph.D. in
Design and Innovation Management at Union Institute and University in
2000 with the dissertation “Embedded values in innovation practice:
Toward a theory of power and participation in organizations.”
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