How do you solve unusual problems? With unusual designers.
Meet the Design & UX/UI Stream Fellow, J. Bryce Hidysmith.
“Designs for unusual problems” that’s how J. Bryce Hidysmith presents his work. A design prodigy, this San Franciscan has more than 11 years of experience working on games, iconography, spatial design, and the interplay between forgeries and the genuine article.
Exosphere Academy is proud and excited to have him as the Fellow for the Design & UX/UI Stream for this July’s program.
Naturally innovative and adventurous, each of the projects he works on (which range from website or app building, to themed trucks for secret festivals we cannot tell you about) aims to create not only aesthetic beauty, but explore the fusion of design with experience and emotions.
A self-learner, experimenter, and flâneur he loves his work to be very varied. Participants that become part of the Design & UX/UI Stream will spend 8 weeks been mentored and working in collaboration with Bryce, who in the past years has been involved in the design and collaborated in amazing projects such as Signal Room, Lost Horizon Night Market, Journey To The End of The Night, and The Games That Got Us Through — Climate Change Sports. We would also love to tell you about some of the current projects he is working on right now, but they are all secret (if you are lucky enough and join us in Chile this July he will be able to show you some of these in person!)
In addition to the above projects, he is the lead designer for Numer.ai, a global artificial intelligence tournament to predict the stock market that is also building a collective artificial intelligence that controls the capital in their hedge fund based on the most accurate and original machine learning models.
If this made you go “ugh?” Imagine having to create the branding and communication image for a project like that. These are the kind of endeavors Bryce likes to work on, and he wants to share them with you.
Here is a list of some of the workshops and activities he has planned for participants:
- Persuasive Branding
- Experience & Service Design Thinking
- Understanding the built world and the designed environment
- Chairs: The Basic Unit of the Built Universe
- Architecture of Complex War (an alternative to the post-modernist designs)
- Collective project: The Rooms — Total design of environments, stimulation, and interactions
Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works. Function and form have never been so merged as in today’s world. If you want to develop successful products, services, or experiences (whether that is a restaurant, hospital, airline, sport matches, or product, website, app, museum, shopping mall, office, etc) a designer’s approach to creation is a must.
In a world becoming more complex everyday we are in need of creative problem solving solutions. Designing for unusual problems is a first step.
If you are interested in joining the Design UX/UI Stream apply now to the Exosphere Academy!
