Case Studies

Portfolio pieces and product ideas.

Portfolio

These case studies reflect my journey as a lead product designer and innovation strategist —shaped by storytelling, anthropology, and a…

As a student of anthropology interested in linguistics and big fan of the work of George Lakoff, I built this…

Archaeology now. Back in 1996 I had a design studio with my friend David Oppenheim. This was our digital…

After much thinking about what clients and their customers need most I’ve decided to launch Sift:lab. It’s a collaborative group…

So nice to see that Havas went all the way and officially launched Arcadia into the world. What started as…

How can we reframe and unbias our news media habits? How could we become aware of our political biases? What…

Architecture swallows violence. The streets are washed clean. The walls patched. The holes filled. The windows repaired. And the names…

Bruce Chatwin’s book, The Songlines, inspired me to think how I might design an application that would enable composers to…

Spoke to a large gathering of our Asia Pacific team in Singapore this past week. Took them through story mapping…

Story mapping is a facilitated group activity that empowers teams to think empathically and uncover opportunities to create valued products…

Last week I discovered that we had a pair at work so I went and tried them out today. It…

Seen below Google has three different search experiences on my iPhone and I’m not sure which result to trust. I’m…

Mobile applications sort themselves out into various categories – but nearly all have one desire in common – they’d like…