About
Design at its best is a process of making things right.
Steven Kinder is an award winning product and furniture designer. He is currently a graduate student in the Masters of Arts in Design and Innovation program at Southern Methodist University. He received his BFA in Industrial Design from The Rhode Island School of Design. As an industrial designer, Steven has led design programs for furniture and products in the contract furniture, real estate, aviation, and consumer product industries. He founded Loftwall, an award winning manufacturer of design centric workplace privacy solutions and room dividers. He co-founded Good Coworking, a future focused work space that blends sustainability, wellness and social impact. His interest in the topic of plastics recycling and reuse evolved from his own experience as a product designer seeing a lack of awareness around plastic waste and the use of recycled plastics by designers.
Design Entrepreneur
Starting his first company in 2002, he blends his design sensibilities with a human centered business acumen to start, invest and advise in dozens of businesses. Thinking about how businesses are designed from the ground up to serve all stakeholders, the community and the environment.
Design & Innovation Research
Better research leads to better decisions. Understanding the world around us and how frameworks for innovation can help transform the human experience with products, services and the built environment is where Human-Centered Design plays a critical role for improving future outcomes.
Design Work
