School of Art and Civic Design
Associate Professor of Design
About
Ruiz runs studios the way a newsroom runs a desk: daily critique, named decisions, and a public artifact at the end. Students who want mood boards without process notes are sent back to the bench. His civic-tech operations course is for designers who will inherit a messy service catalog, not a blank Figma file.
Education
- M.F.A., Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design
- Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction, Georgia Institute of Technology
- B.F.A., Printmaking, University of Texas at Austin
Courses
- DES-110 Studio Practice I
- DES-280 Interaction Design
- DES-240 Visual Systems
- OPS-310 Product Operations for Civic Tech
Research
Accessible form design for government services; visual systems that survive brand-committee revision; operations literacy for designers.