SIG

Help Shape the Future of Design Research Quality

The Design Research Quality SIG is developing an open-access hub of resources to promote best practices around research quality in the design field.

Come apply your digital design skills re-imagining how we design drones

The Digital Design Network+ explores and demonstrates what digital design can bring to Engineering Design processes. For this, we are creating a set of Digital Design Challenges that provide open-ended briefs. Case study 1 is open. Apply by 23 July.

WIE TALK SERIES

Engineering with Empathy: Lessons from a Cross-Disciplinary Career

The Design Society has launched a series of online talks to encourage women to explore opportunities in engineering and foster diversity and equality. Our next talk is by Malin Hane Hagström and can be watched LIVE on 30 April 2025.

Registration open

The Scottish Design Workshop (SDW)

Join us for the Scottish Design Workshop 2025, inviting academics, practitioners, and others to discuss design and engineering issues. This one-day event will focus on the development of joint research proposals to tackle the most urgent and systemic challenges of today.

Women in Engineering Talk Series

Claudia Eckert - Be yourself - be an engineer: personal strengths and values in an interconnected engineering ecosystem

In most countries, women still represent less than 20% of the engineering workforce in industry and academia. Organised by the EDI committee, the DS launched a series of online talks to encourage women to explore opportunities for careers in engineering, fostering diversity, innovation, and equality in the field. Women from academia and industry describe their experiences and efforts to encourage more women to pursue an engineering degree and subsequently enter engineering leadership. These talks are motivated to inspire change and provide insight into creating inclusive environments. This panel represents women in engineering, with backgrounds in both Industry and Academia - available to watch now!

In Memoriam: Larry J. Leifer

DS MEMBERSHIP

DS Mentorship Programme 2025-26

The Design Society Mentorship Programme wraps up its second successful year — and we're gearing up for the 2025–26 edition, launching this September! Open to all members, the programme connects early-career researchers, PhD students, and seasoned professionals for meaningful growth and collaboration. Apply by 15 August 2025!

Design Society Fellow: Professor P. John Clarkson

Design Society Fellowship was bestowed on Professor P. John Clarkson in August 2021

A friendly reminder

DS Mentoring Programme 2026–2027

We Are Not Users: Dialogues, Diversity, and Design, MIT Press - A new book on design (Subrahmanian, Reich, Krishnan, 2020)

This book culminates work of over three decades on design. It addresses issues at the heart of contemporary challenges and debates and written in a way accessible to a large audience.