About Design Field Notes: Each informal talk in this pop-up series brings a design practitioner to a Jacobs Hall teaching studio to share ideas, projects, and practices. About this talk: An assistant professor of design at UC Davis, Thomas Maiorana is a designer and artist who uses prototyping to develop digital experiences, physical products, apparel, shoes, services and organizational change. His work has been featured in a variety of publications and he has worked with range of companies across the world to enhance their design thinking capabilities. Tom is also the founder and principal at Red Cover Studios, an innovation consultancy. Most recently, Tom helped secure a $25 million endowed donation to launch the Hive, a creativity center at the Claremont Colleges.