DMI invites a wide variety of practicing designers, artists, and lecturers to speak with our students, among them:
- Joseph Auner, Chair, Professor of Music, Tufts University
- Hugh Dubberly, Principal, Dubberly Design Office
- Margaret Livingston, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard University
- John Maeda, MIT, Physical Language Workshop Founder, former President, Rhode Island School of Design
- Ron MacNeil, MIT, Principal Research Associate
- Chris Pullman, WGBH, Vice President of Design
- David Rose, Founder, Executive Vice President, Ambient Devices
- David Small, Small Design Firm, Founder
- Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, MIT. Author of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, Simulation and Its Dicontents, and most recently, Alone Together.
- Frank R. Wilson, Medical Director at the Peter F. Ostwald Health Program for Performing Artists, University of California School of Medicine. Author of The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture.
- Krzysztof Wodiczko, Professor of Visual Arts, Interrogative Design Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology