Vice President, Research and Strategy, RKS
www.rksdesign.com
Judging Category: Equipment
Ingvald Smith-Kielland is a passionate global strategist and creative with over ten years of experience in research and design, delivering successful results for a variety of companies. He has extensive experience in both product development and user-interface research and design, and has helped build the robust value of the Psycho-Aesthetics® program over the past four years while leading large-scale projects for Fortune 500 companies to bring a variety of concepts to production in global markets. In the process he has managed diverse teams of designers, researchers, strategists and engineers in collaboration with client teams.
In addition to his years of experience at RKS, Ingvald was a senior design manager at ZIBA Design where he interfaced with clients, managed resource allocations and project budgets and recruited new design talent. As a product and interface designer at Universal Electronics, Ingvald developed the company’s IP portfolio with new GUI concepts in close collaboration with in-house engineering teams while steering consumer electronics projects to completion. Smith-Kielland is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design with a degree in product design and holds numerous design awards and patents.
