Cara Wrigley
Cara Wrigley | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Industrial Designer, Design Researcher, Author |
| Known for | Design Thinking, Design Innovation |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Design Innovation, Design Education, Business Model Design, Designing Digital Channels, Emotional Design, Medical Design & Innovation, Military Design Thinking |
| Notable works | Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in The Digital Age, (2018) |
| Website | https://www.carawrigley.com/ |
Cara Wrigley is an industrial designer, design researcher and author. She is the Professor of Design Innovation within the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at The University of Queensland. Her research interests include business model design, emotional design, design innovation and military design thinking.[1]
Work
Wrigley became the Professor of Design Innovation at the University of Queensland in the Faculty of Engineering, Information Technology and Architecture in 2022. Prior to this appointment she was the Jericho Chair of Design Innovation at The University of Sydney, leading an interdisciplinary research group sponsored by the Royal Australian Air Force.[2] This engagement brought together the Australian Defence Force and researchers from around the world to investigate the role that design plays in the creation of disruptive technologies for military capability.
During her time at the University of Sydney, Wrigley established the Defence by Design Group, where she ran applied research projects in the military domain. This collaboration contributed to the theoretical development of ‘military design thinking’ that has been taught and applied widely throughout the Australian Defence Force.[3] In 2018, she established and directed the Design Innovation Research Group, leading a research team that focused on design-led exploratory research, conducting applied and theoretical research into people, emotions, strategy and business.
During her time at the University of Sydney, Wrigley launched the Master of Design Innovation and Strategic Design (2019) program. This degree was was referenced as a case study in the book ‘Design Thinking Education for Innovation and Impact’ by Routledge published in 2022.
Wrigley is currently Chief Investigator on ARC Discovery and Linkage projects.[4] She is a reviewer for the Australian Research Council (ARC) and provides advice to organisations and their executives from diverse industries. For this work she has received Australian Good Design Awards.[5]
Professor Wrigley has delivered keynotes at global academic conferences in the medical field including the European Mechanical Circulatory Support Summit (EUMS) Conference (2019, Vienna), the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 65th Annual Conference (San Francisco (2019) and the Asia-Pacific Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (APELSO) Conference (2018). Furthermore, she is a regular invited speaker at the Australian Defence College and the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra for her work in Defence.[6]
Books
Wrigley has published extensively on the application and adoption of design disseminated through 7 books, including the Research Handbook on Design Thinking (2023), Design Innovation and Integration (2021), Design Innovation for Health and Medicine (2020) and Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in the Digital Age (2018).
| Title | Author/s | Publisher | Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Handbook on Design Thinking | Edited by Karla Straker, Cara Wrigley | Edward Elgar Publishing | 2023 | 978 1 80220 312 7 |
| Design Thinking Pedagogy | Cara Wrigley, Genevieve Mosely | Routledge | August 15, 2022 | 9781032279831 |
| Design Innovation for Health and Medicine | Cara Wrigley, Erez Nusem, and Karla Straker | Palgrave Macmillan | 05 September 2020 | 978-981-15-4362-3 |
| Affected: Emotionally Engaging Customers in The Digital Age | Cara Wrigley and Karla Straker | Wiley | May 2018 | 978-0-730-35701-8 |
| Design Innovation and Integration | Karla Straker, Cara Wrigley and Erez Nusem | BIS Publishers | FEB 1, 2021 | 978 90 6369 603 0 |
| Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat. | Tomitsch, M., Borthwick, M., Ahmadpour, N., Cooper, C., Frawley, J., Hepburn, L.A., Kocaballi, A.B., Loke, L., Núñez-Pacheco, C., Straker, K., Wrigley, C. | BIS Publishers | 18 January 2018 | 9789063695859 |
Publications
In addition to the books listed, Wrigley has written or contributed to 170 referred research papers and scholarly articles and has been cited more than 2800 times at the time of writing.[7]
She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Design, Business and Society published bi-annually.[8]
Articles, a selection:
- Wrigley, C., Straker, K. (2017): Design thinking pedagogy: The educational design ladder. In: Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Vol 54, Issue 4, pp. 374-385.
- Straker, K., Wrigley, C., Rosemann, M., (2015): Typologies and touchpoints: designing multi-channel digital strategies. In: Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, Vol 9, Issue 2, pp. 110-128.
- Matthews, j., Wrigley, C., (2017): Design and design thinking in business and management higher education. In: Journal of Learning Design, Vol 10, Issue 4 pp. 41-54.
References
- ^ "Professor Cara Wrigley - UQ Researchers". researchers.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "Air Force engages Sydney Nano to revolutionise sensing capability". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "About". Defence By Design. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "ARC Discovery Project success for design and planning researchers". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "Introspect". Good Design. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "About Professor Cara Wrigley". Professor Cara Wrigley. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "Cara Wrigley". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- ^ "Journal of Design, Business & Society". Intellect Books. Retrieved 2023-04-17.