Hugh Dubberly
Designer, Design Theorist, and Educator
Hugh has served on AIGA’s national board, the SIGGRAPH Conference Committee, and chaired ACD’s “Design for the Internet” Conference. He recently co-chaired a conference on Design and AI at UC Berkeley, "From Interface to Agency."
Hugh has taught design courses at San Jose State, Art Center, CMU, Stanford, IIT/ID, Northeastern, CCA, and UC Berkeley. He edited a column “On Modeling” for the Association of Computing Machinery’s journal, Interactions, and has published more than 50 articles on design methods. He was elected to the ACM CHI Academy and named a Fellow of AIGA.
Hugh Dubberly received a BFA in Graphic Design from RISD and an MFA from Yale.
Rosenverse talks by Hugh:
" What if learning was always mobile, decentralized, distributed among people and institutions, with new ways to acknowledge learning beyond grades? "
How Will Design be Taught When the Schools Shut Down?
May 8, 2026
" We are moving from direct work to mediated work, from wanting things perfect to good enough for now, and from complete to adaptive and growing systems. "
Problems with Problems: Reconsidering the Frame of Designing as Problem-Solving
June 19, 2019