01

Immersion as a Design Strategy

2026 · Facilitation Lab / Swissnex · San Francisco
Workshop on immersion as a design strategy for shaping attention, participation, and meaning across physical, social, and cognitive experiences.
02

CCA — Machinic Modernity

2024 · California College of the Arts · San Francisco
Guest lecture on multisensory design for the Machinic Modernity course.
03

Designing Across Senses

2019 · Portland Design Week · Portland
A talk on multimodal design and the expanding territory of human-computer interaction beyond the screen.
04

What is Multimodal Design?

2016 · O'Reilly Fluent Conference · San Francisco
A presentation on designing for multiple senses as computing moved into physical environments and ambient systems.
05

Big Content

2012 · Content Strategy Forum · Cape Town
A keynote arguing that communication strategy needed to become systems thinking — as data scales and participants multiply, the strategist's role expands from message-maker to systems architect.
06

Conversation Mapping

2011 · Content Strategy Forum · London
A paid workshop on building communication platforms through designed conversations — translating brand meaning into beliefs, behaviors, and artifacts that travel. Participants left with tools they could use immediately.
07

Talks at Google: Core Memory

2007 · Google · Mountain View
A presentation on computing history as cultural history — the machines that made modern computing possible, photographed as objects of intention.
08

かっこいい機械の夜 Vol.2

The Night of Cool Machines
2008 · Tokyo
A talk at a Japanese technology and culture event celebrating the Tokyo release of Core Memory — vintage computers as designed objects, presented to an audience that understood beautiful machines.
09

HotWired and the World Wide Web

1995 · Otis College of Art and Design · Los Angeles
A lecture on the emerging web as a cultural medium, delivered at the moment the medium was still being invented.