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/// PUBLISHED BOOK

L. Zahabi, Beyond the Search Engine: Design of the Online Search Experience, 1st ed, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, December 2024; https://www.routledge.com/Beyond-the-Search-Engine-Design-of-the-Online-Search-Experience/Zahabi/p/book/9781032481944

/// PUBLISHED ARTICLES, PAPERS, PROJECTS—REFEREED

Essay // 2023
L. Zahabi, “Belonging Together: Reflection on Lived Experience to Promote Inclusivity in the Design Classroom” A Part & Apart: AndSo Graduate Journal of Graphic & Experience Design, Spring 2023 issue, North Carolina State University, College of Design (2023); https://academics.design.ncsu.edu/andso/

Journal Article // 2022
L. Zahabi, “Thinking out loud: an invitation for designers to consider the Voice User Interface (VUI),” Dialectic, Volume 4 Issue 1, M. Gibson and K. Owens, editors, pgs. 90–107. https://doi.org/10.3998/dialectic.14932326.0004.105

Book Chapter // 2020
L. Zahabi, “Design for Good: Community Organization Partnership,” Collaboration in Design education: Case Studies and Teaching Methodologies, M. Maxwell-Lane and R. Tegtmeyer, editors, Bloomsbury, September 17, 2020.
Link to book website
Link to Bloomsbury page for this book

Project Featured in Edited Book—Co-Authored // 2019
A. Buck-Coleman and L. Zahabi, “Case Study: Open Brief // Capstone Project, University of Maryland,” The Graphic Design Process: how to be successful in design school, A. Nottingham and J. Stout, editors, Bloomsbury, September 5, 2019.
Link to Bloomsbury page for this book

Book Chapter // 2013
“Visualizing Information-Triage: a speculative and metaphoric interface for making sense of online searching,” M. Huang and W. Huang, editors, Innovative Approaches of Data Visualization and Visual Analytics, IGI Global, July 2013.
http://zahabidesign.com/portfolio/research-writing/Zahabi_VisualizingInformationTriage.pdf

/// PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Paper published in conference proceedings // 2025
L. Zahabi, Embracing Complexity: Teaching Design with Flexible Tool Frameworks. 40th National Conference of the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS40), T. Allen, S. Queen and P. Morgado, editors. August 2025.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eRjXExcjEwlahIzQmTo59TuebjoqXg2G/view?usp=drive_link

Co-Edited proceedings // 2024
R. Tegtmeyer and L. Zahabi, editors. Collective Inquiry into the Visual Essay: AIGA Design Educators Community 2022 Design + Writing Fellowship. Produced and hosted by Michigan Publishing on the behalf of The AIGA DEC; August 2024.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14495980

Edited proceedings // 2024
L. Zahabi, editor. SHIFT{ed}: Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences. Produced and hosted by Michigan Publishing on the behalf of The AIGA DEC; June 2024.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14495904

Edited proceedings // 2023
L. Zahabi, editor. SHIFT: Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences. Produced and hosted by Michigan Publishing on the behalf of The AIGA DEC; March 2022.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12571098

Co-Author; published conference proceedings // 2019
P. Lusch and L. Zahabi, Making Assumptions: Pedagogy, Practice, and the Portfolio, P. Napier and A. Ganci, editors, MAKE, AIGA Design Educators Community Dialogue series, 2019.
https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11688783
Link to our piece in proceedings

Co-Author; published conference proceedings // 2015
Santurri, L., Stander, A., Zahabi, L., Bennion, B., Matthews, J., Picturing the health of a community: A community-engaged health assessment of Weber and Morgan counties in Utah, American Public Health Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 2015.
Link to conference website entry

Paper published in conference proceedings //2013
“Exploring Information-Triage: Speculative Interface Tools to Help College Students Conduct Online Research,” A. Marcus (Ed.):DUXU/HCII 2013, Part IV, LNCS 8015, pp. 611–620, 2013.
http://zahabidesign.com/portfolio/research-writing/Zahabi_ExploringInformationTriage.pdf
Link to paper on SpringerLink

/// PUBLISHED, EXHIBITED, OR REFEREED CREATIVE WORKS

Exhibition of Zine // 2025
L.Zahabi, Childless is the Default, M(other)ing Exhibition, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, curated by Meaghan Dee and Bree McMahon, March 18–May 16, 2025.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHMCrXIpKwZ/
https://www.instagram.com/m_other_ing/

Exhibition of Poster Design [ internationally traveling curated exhibition] // 2023–2025
L. Zahabi, Flexibility as Agency: Using the Concept of ‘Small Pieces, Loosely Joined’ in the Design Classroom, I Profess: the graphic design manifesto Exhibition, curated by Audrey Bennett and Christopher Corneal; https://www.audreygbennett.com/baohouse/i-profess

  • Illinois State University, Milner Library, Normal, IL // February 4–March 4, 2025
  • Syracuse University, Sue & Leon Genet Gallery, Syracuse, NY // January 17–February 28, 2025
  • University of Arkansas, School of Art Gallery, Fayetteville, AR // January 13–February 28, 2025
  • University of Memphis, The Martha & Robert Fogelman Galleries, Memphis, TN // September 6–October 4, 2024
  • University of Michigan, The Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI // August 5, September 23, 2024
  • San Francisco State University, Fine Arts Bldg, San Francisco, CA // June 1–June 30, 2024
  • University for the Creative Arts-Farnham, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey, England // April 15–April 30, 2024
  • Michigan State University, (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI // February 16–March 15, 2024
  • Portland State University, AB Lobby Gallery, Portland, OR // February 5–February 16, 2024

Exhibition of Digital Artifacts–Co-Authored // 2022
K. Healey and L. Zahabi, Angry Outsiders, 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, France; May 26–30, 2022; https://framevr.io/ica-gallery#greenroom

Poster Design [international exhbition, invited to submit] // 2021
L. Zahabi, Connecting Minds, Creating the Future, 3rd Emirates International Poster Festival; the Emirates International Poster Festival is the first-of-its-kind creative platform in the MENA region developed to showcase and celebrate contemporary poster design from around the world.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=264580302165002
https://itsjustme.net/emirates-international-poster-festival-eipf-2021-uae/

Digital Video Project in Juried Show // 2018
L. Zahabi, Quotidian Menology (digital video, 6 min running time), The Cube Art Project, third competition, Juried by Sean Capone, work shown June–October 2018 on public screen in Lincoln, Nebraska

Digital and Mixed-Media Installation // 2013–2014
L. Zahabi, An Exquisite Morass Made Tangible, part of the exhibition Non-Text: An Exhibition of Text as Image, curated by Leslie Atzmon and Brian Spolans

  • Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL // January–February 2014
  • Eastern Michigan University Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI // October–December 2013

/// PUBLICATIONS FROM GRADUATE SCHOOL

Seeking Information-Triage: Comparative interface tools to help users manage complexity and mitigate anxiety during online searching, Master of Graphic Design Thesis, North Carolina State University College of Design, May 2010.
http://zahabidesign.com/portfolio/research-writing/Zahabi_SeekingInformationTriage.pdf

Master of Graphic Design, Interface Publication, North Carolina State University College of Design, Spring 2009.
http://zahabidesign.com/portfolio/research-writing/S09MGD573_publication.pdf

/// VERY OLD BLOGS

ZahabiBlog: Process and musings from Graduate School
http://zahabiblog.blogspot.com/

Window on Design: Advice for design students
http://windowondesign.wordpress.com/