2026

Immersion as a Design Strategy

Facilitation Lab / Swissnex · San Francisco
Workshop on immersion as a design strategy for shaping attention, participation, and meaning across physical, social, and cognitive experiences.
2024

CCA — Machinic Modernity

California College of the Arts · San Francisco
Guest lecture on multisensory design for the Machinic Modernity course.
2019

Designing Across Senses

Portland Design Week · Portland
A talk on multimodal design and the expanding territory of human-computer interaction beyond the screen.
2016

What is Multimodal Design?

O'Reilly Fluent Conference · San Francisco
A presentation on designing for multiple senses as computing moved into physical environments and ambient systems.
2012

Big Content

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.
2011

Conversation Mapping

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.
2008

かっこいい機械の夜 Vol.2

The Night of Cool Machines
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.
2007

Talks at Google: Core Memory

Google · Mountain View
A presentation on computing history as cultural history — the machines that made modern computing possible, photographed as objects of intention.
1995

HotWired and the World Wide Web

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.