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Joe Ballay is the Visiting Professor of Design at Georgia Institute of Technology. Joe is a nationally known industrial designer and former senior faculty member in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. As the head of the school, he was instrumental in orienting CMU’s design programs toward the integration of high technology with traditional graphic and industrial design. Throughout his career, he has been concerned that people have satisfying, aesthetically pleasing experiences with technology, especially as it influences ever more of our everyday lives. At MAYA, Joe was one of the principal developers of Workscape, an interface metaphor for a software product that collects, stores, retrieves, and works with large numbers of diverse documents. He has also helped to guide the design of products in the domains of consumer electronics, interactive television, military logistics, fire protection, and computer peripherals. In 2012, Joe and co-authors Pete Lucas and Mickey M
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- • 4 investors at Georgia Institute of Technology are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Visiting Professor of Design role in VCSift. Joe Ballay is one of them.
- • 308 investors are based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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