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Design consultant, writer and speaker on design, technology & innovation | About me, my writing, events, projects and references |
Designing behaviour
Sunday 28th October, Battle of Ideas festival, RCA, London
Produced and spoke on a debate on why many now argue that design has a duty to promote wellbeing, responsible behaviour, and to make people think rather than just consume. Issues include health awareness and rebuilding community to reducing consumption and global warming. Speakers were Molly Webb, business engagement manager, the Climate Change group and Professor Anthony Dunne, head of RCA's Design Interactions. The debate was chaired by Austin Williams, director of the Future Cities Project.
Design in Denial
1st October, Design Museum, London (Produced & chaired event) Sell out capacity!
Why do few designers, if any, defend design for its own sake? Instead, many argue that design only has worth once it contributes toward social renewal, regeneration, the environent, sustainability and so on. But doesn't this mean that design as a result will suffer?
Speakers were Martin Brown (Wolf Olins), Jonathan Barnbrook (UK's foremost political designer), Clive Grinyer (director of design Orange France Telecom), Tom Dunmore (editor of Stuff magazine) and Austin Williams (director of Future Cities Project). Part of the Battle of Ideas 2007 festival.
What do you think you're doing?
21st September, Design Museum, London (Part of London Design Festival)
Was asked by Jonathan Barnbrook (currently exhibting his one-man retrospective Friendly Fire at the Design Museum) to chair this debate. It examined the role of ethics in design and how designers should respond. Speakers were Jonathan Barnbrook, Adrian shaughnessy - design commentator, author of How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul and Teal Triggs - Professor of Graphic Design and Head of Research, School of Graphic Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
The confessions of a social networker
Monday 3rd September 2007, Barclays Global Investors, London
Gave a talk, as part of their Inspirational Speakers season on the opportunities and perils of online social networking. Federica Squadrilli Carr, Web Manager at BGI said my talk was 'very interesting, informative, lively and thought-provoking... you were very engaging.'
What is innovation for?
28 October 2006 Battle of Ideas 2006, London | Produced and chaired debate
If research and innovation have to be tailored to fulfil the perceived social needs of today’s world, what about tomorrow’s world? Historically, serendipity and a spirit of experimentation have revealed latent, unforeseen needs. Is there a danger that an instrumentalist tick-box approach will close down the unexpected outcomes of a more open-ended attitude to R&D? Does asking ‘what is it for?’ undermine the possibility of going further than our imaginations can presently conceive?
Putting design and technology to good use
28 October 2006 Battle of Ideas 2006, London | Produced and chaired debate
Can fashionable customer-led design thinking really solve deep-seated social problems, or are designers and technologists being given a brief they simply can’t answer?
Beyond human-centered design
4 August 2004 DIS2004, Boston USA | Spoke on panel asking 'Does user-centered design holds
back innovation, expressed through a culture of social and business caution?'
Web
accessibility & web usability
5
July 2002 RNIB, London | Spoke on panel. Read
a review of the debate on spiked...
Editorial design for the Web
July 2001, AIGA Experience design, Design Council, London | Spoke on panel
Usability vs. innovation
10 June 2002, AIGA Experience Design, Design Council, London | Debate with Steve Krug, author of Don't make me think! Read a review of the debate on Usability News
The limitations of user-centred design
21 May 2002 UPA, London | Presentation 'in the lions den'! Read a review of the debate on Usability
News and in IT
week
Mobile working
20 November 2002, University of London | Presentation to students
Human Centred Design:
The limits of usability
15
October 2002, spiked, London. Spoke on panel. Read
a review of the debate on Usability News
What use for usability?
20
September 2002, Conference Knowledge Economy: New hope or old hype,
organised by University of East London and spiked.
The
future of usability
20 March
2002, British Interactive Media Association, London. Spoke on panel. Read
an introduction of the debate on Usability News...
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