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:
" Design schools are often governed by non-designers and are surprisingly conservative, slow to change, and sometimes exploit precarious gig workers. "
How Will Design be Taught When the Schools Shut Down?
May 8, 2026
" Steve Jobs said design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation, expressing itself beyond just surface veneer. "
Problems with Problems: Reconsidering the Frame of Designing as Problem-Solving
June 19, 2019
