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Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Storytelling in Design Lunch & Learn

Dr. Lennart Nacke will present a lively introduction to storytelling in design. You’ll gain valuable insights into how engaging narratives can be used to create empathy, make connections, clarify meaning, and enhance user experience design in both digital and non-digital applications.

Team smiling and lauging as they play their newly created game.
Monday, November 18, 2019

StoryCamp welcomed over 100 students to participate in multimodal story design competition.

More than 135 registrants from Waterloo's main campus, the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business and other institutions, descended upon the Stratford School Saturday morning to participate in StoryCamp, a 15-hour design competition on multimodal storytelling.

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Research team creates 'player trait model' allowing for personalized user-experiences

Researchers led by Lennart Nacke, Associate Professor at the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, have developed a novel tool that will enable user-experience designers to create more effective, personalized games and marketing campaigns.

Lighting Kit
Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Lunch & Learn | Lighting for Photography and Video

This workshop will cover how to optimize the use of natural light and the various lighting equipment available to you in Media Services. You will learn how to enhance production quality by sculpting and shaping your lighting, pre-planning and troubleshooting, as well as tricks and tips to make you successful in any scenario.

Virtuous Waste team members smiling as they accept the World Vision 2019 Social Innovation Award
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

GBDA Students Pitch at the World Vision Social Innovation Challenge, Win $25,000

A team of Global Business and Digital Arts students developed Virtuous Waste, an alternative to plastic packaging made of seaweed that they pitched before a panel of industry experts and social entrepreneurs on June 19 in Toronto. Their winning solution will receive $25,000 in funding for implementation during a 12-month incubation period.

Victoria working on her solution
Thursday, January 24, 2019

GBDA Student Victoria Vandenberg Places 2nd in National Competition

Global Business and Digital Arts student Victoria Vandenberg achieved 2nd place at the annual Communitech Code/Design to Win challenge held in Kitchener this past weekend.

Vandenberg and 5 other students from the Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business were among the top 25 finalists selected from 258 designers that participated in the preliminary on-campus challenges.