About

Aaron Ganci is a visual communication and user interface designer with expertise in user-centered design. He joined Herron’s faculty in 2012. Professor Ganci received a B.A. in Fine Art/Graphic Design from Eastern Illinois University and an M.F.A. in Design Development and Research from The Ohio State University. As a practitioner-scholar with expertise in graphic design, user interface design, and co-design research methodologies, Professor Ganci is a frequent consultant on the design of websites and software interfaces with scholars from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Computer Science, Liberal Arts, and Informatics. In addition to professional creative activity, Professor Ganci studies how design artifacts enable systems of injustice in American life. Most recently, as part of his PhD studies (PhD in American Studies at IU Indianapolis), he studied how the design of CVs and resumés reinforce systems of racial and gender bias within the U.S. higher education system.

Publications

• Ganci, A. (2022). Adaptive Resumes in Disrupted Futures. In Cumulus Conference Proceedings Detroit 2022.
• Ganci, A. (2022). Covid CV: Designing Faculty Pandemic Narratives. In Covid-19 Special Issue : Capturing visual insights, thoughts and reflections on 2020/21 and beyond, Message Journal: Graphic Communication Design Research, University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom, issue 5 (pp. 138-140).
• Werner, N., Ganci, A., Boustani, M., Holden, R., & Cambell, N. (2022). Helping the Helpers – A research protocol for user-centered technology to aid caregiver management of medications for people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. In Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Elsevier, vol 18, issue 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.03.014
• Raje, R., Ganci, A, Williams, J., Wheeler, R., Chowdhury, N., & Raja, U. (2021) COVID CV: A System for Creating Holistic Academic CVs during a Global Pandemic. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electro-Information Technology (EIT), IEEE, United States (pp. 146-150). doi: 10.1109/EIT51626.2021.9491917
• Ganci, A., Ellis, R., Head, K., & Ofner, S. (2018). Buy Characteristics of Adults Managing Vitamins/Supplements and Prescribed Medications–Who Is Using, Not Using, and Abandoning Use of Pillboxes?: A Descriptive Study. In Clinical Nurse Specialist: The Journal for Advanced Nursing Practice, vol 32, issue 5 (pp. 231-239).
• Ganci, A., & Lahey, M. (2018). Uncovering the importance of soft skills in user interface design-related fields. In Communication Design, Taylor & Francis, United States, vol 5, issue 1-2, (pp. 5-20).