IDEO describes the design professional in today’s context of complex, large-scale design projects as ideally “T-shaped”: The vertical stroke represents the deep professional skills of graphic designers, while the horizontal stroke is our ability to speak the language of, and understand, other professionals with whom we collaborate. If graphic designers are going to have meaningful and useful partnerships to create interesting, engaging, imaginative,

and useful work then this field trip class (virtual and physical) will help us get started by meeting potential collaborators like anthropologists, programmers, information specialists, interpretive developers to find out more about what they do and how they work with us.