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Sustainable Mobile Phone Charrette
In July of 2012, I and my colleague, Susan Worthman, led a group of experts from all over the mobile phone industry through a series of exercises, over two days to imagine how mobile phones could be more sustainable. Our frame for sustainability included not only...
There’s a Storm Coming…
This was a talk on Multimedia back in 1996 in Melbourne (my first time to that city) for OZCHI. I don't think it's ever been posted to the Internet so I only have a few screenshots left from it. It was about the possibilities of these new digital and online media and...
Consumerism is a Fail
The image quality on this is terrible because it's so dark but this was a talk I gave at SCAD in Savannah at their fantastic Design Ethos conference in 2012. The topic was about how Consumerism has been a fail for the US economy and both designers' culpability in this...
CISCO Interviews
These are two of the micro-interviews I did with CISCO back in 2011. They were beautifully-produced and there was a lot more material than they eventually released. These two are on the need for 6 Billion problem solvers and the challenge of leading a sustainable...
Autodesk Cage Match at TED
This was the second cage match hosted by Autodesk, this time at the TED conference in 2012. This time, I debated Mark Foster Gage. This is just some slight highlights, not the full match. The topic was "Evolution vs. Interference, basically whether Evolution was...
Autodesk Cage Match
This was the first Cage Match Autodesk hosted (in Las Vegas at their annual conference) in 2011. It was an evolution for the "Design Fight Club" bouts they hosted at their IDEAS Summits. It was a hoot. I squared-off against Adam Richardson, debating whether...
eShop Tower Records online store
Another now failed and abandoned online platform, eShop was a separate online service that was to feature many traditional retailers. This screen was the very start of the Tower Records online store, facing a virtual mall, we were developing before the project was...
FOX Video online service
As part of our engagement with FOX Online and Delphi Internet Services (which was renamed Real Internet shortly after), w developed this store interface for FOX Video to sell videotapes and merchandise and be a hub for news and events regarding FOX film properties....
Encyclopedia Brittanica website
In 1997, Encyclopedia Brittanica hired vivid to investigate how their powerful assets could be leveraged into a Web property. I worked with a small team at vivid, as well as a few EB employees, to develop a flexible Web interface that enabled searching and browsing in...
AIGA Revival: Annual Conference
I'm really excited to get back to New Orleans, finally (after almost 13 years!) and the AIGA annual conference is as good a reason as ever. This year, I've been fortunate enough to program and moderate the GAIN track at the conference on business issues. I get to...