Faculty

Shaun Illingworth, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Ottawa's Digital Transformation and Innovation program (School of Engineering) and the Telfer School of Management MBA program. He teaches Design Thinking, UX Principles and Practices, and UX Research at the graduate level, and has developed new courses for the executive education Digital Transformation Online program. He supervises Ph.D. and Master's students and serves on the DTI Advisory Board.
Dr. Illingworth brings 25+ years of industry experience to the classroom. He is co-founder and principal of DFFRNT, a strategic design and innovation consultancy, and previously served as Managing Director at Akendi and Senior UX Lead at Shopify. Earlier in his career, he was a member of Nortel's Design Interpretive innovation group, where he produced four patents. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Experimental Psychology from Northeastern University and a B.A. from the University of Ottawa. His peer-reviewed research has appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Research in Personality, and he is co-author of Elementary Statistics in Behavioral Research (Harper Collins, 1993).