Current & Ongoing Projects

• Fieldwork Color Analog What Color is the Earth?

  Gathering, contemplating, and exploring material color from locations across the earth.

• Magic Color Analog Sketchbook Practice

  A life-long pursuit of making and keeping sketchbooks.

Project Archive

• Facilitation Visioning Analog Prototyping Peace

  A toolkit for supporting groups to self-determine and design how they want to work together.

• Fieldwork Visioning Art+Feminism

  Expanding the representation of women and the arts on Wikipedia.

• Fieldwork Color Analog Livelihoods in the Kalahari

  A month spent living, working, and co-designing with the San.

• Facilitation Visioning Magic The Time Machine

  Three time machines that guided several hundred people to discover and invent new futures.

• Fieldwork Visioning Analog The Lively Morgue

  Digitizing The New York Times photo archive, one weird image at a time.

Talks

• 21st Century Design Skills — Awwwards Conf, San Francisco, CA, 2019
• Yes, and? — How to use the power of facilitation to align minds and include people. — Smashing Conf, San Francisco, CA, 2019
• Designing Co-Creative Research — Product Camp: June 7-9, 2018, Gdynia, Poland
• Designing Co-Creative Research — Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, London, UK, 2018
• Co-Creative Research: A more human way to build products — The Family, Paris, France, 2018
• Designing Co-Creative Research — PixelUp!, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018
• Demystifying Fieldwork — Generate, New York, NY, 2017
• Non-Violent Design — Industry Conf, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2016
• Building Empathy Muscles — Úll, Dublin, Ireland, 2013
• Within Reach — HUMlab, Umeå, Sweden, 2012
• Within Reach — Webstock, Wellington, New Zealand, 2012
• iPad Confidential: An Interaction Design Case Study — IxDA NYC, New York, NY, 2010

Publications

• Design Your Team — Medium, 2019
• Platforms as Cultures — The Manual, 2014
• The Lesson — The Manual, 2014

Workshops

• Facilitating Collaboration — THETA 2019, Wollongong, Australia, May 19-22
• Designing Co-Creative Research — Product Camp, Gdynia, Poland, 2018
• Designing Co-Creative Research — Pixel Up!, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018
• Designing Team Accords — Carnegie Mellon School of Design, Pittsburg, PA, 2018
• Prototyping Peace: Toolkits for Team and Community Accords — Build Peace, Bogotá, Colombia, 2017
• Inquiry --> Insight --> Prototype — Industry Conf, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2016
• Pigments, Materiality, and Difficult Collections — metaLAB’s Beautiful Data II at Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2015
• Prototyping Wearables in the Woods — UX Camp, Caratunk, MA, 2015
• Hack the Future with Time Travel — &YetConf, Richland, WA, 2015
• Time Machine 2.0 — Úll, Killarney, Ireland, 2015
• The Time Machine — Úll, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2014
• Prototyping Touch — UX London, London, United Kingdom, 2013
• Designing for Touch — HUMlab, Umeå, Sweden, 2012
• Prototyping for iOS — Webstock, Wellington, New Zealand, 2012

Interviews

• Making great work doesn't have to hurt anyone — Creative Review, 2018
• A conversation with Michael Trautmann & Christoph Magnussen — On The Way to New Work, 2018
• On Color — Arper, 2018
• Should We Own Things? — Should We—, 2017
• On Design Research at Dropbox — Net Mag, 2017
• An Inventory of My Backpack — The Setup, 2013
• Interview with Josh Clark — Webstock, 2012

Panels

• The Vices and Virtues of Collaboration — The School of Life, London, 2017
• Designing iPad Apps — O’Reilly’s Tools of Change, New York, NY, 2010

Teaching

• The Advanced Fundamentals of User Experience — MFA Interaction Design at SVA, New York, NY, 2014-2016
• Designing for Touch — Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY, 2011-2013
• Sketchbook 2.0 — Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY, 2012