I’ve always wanted to be an artist and grow things. But I didn’t realize till I was in college learning computer science, that I could be designing stuff people loved with technology. Today, I study how technology shifts mindsets and design ways to amplify human agency for good using technology…

A self discovery journey to wellbeing — I’m a creative problem solver. I get lost in time when I get to be creative. Learning and collaborating on a project with people make me feel alive. The more complex the problem, the longer I am in flow. To some, I could be seen as being a workaholic, but…

Transformational wellbeing for the new normal. What a year. The uncertainty brought about by the pandemic, social movements and strong emotions between information filter bubbles has certainly motivated me to prioritize wellbeing, not just for myself but for my friends and family. I knew I needed a mental detox when…

As if living through this pandemic wasn’t enough, add paranoia from coughing more than a couple times a day, anxiety from election buzz, topped with overwhelming stress from uncertainty of when my next paycheck will come, as we prepare for the holiday season. It’s a plate of despair I refuse to eat… Anxiety can be so powerful that the…

September 29, 2025 — An article pops into my news feed — a flying car will be available to a select beta group within 3 months, looking for early adopters to test-drive, will receive compensation. My agent, Jasper notices my excitement from facial recognition and promptly asks, “Are you thinking you’d like a flying…

A holistic approach to getting jobs done in a digital world — Human machine interactions in our daily lives are evolving from what to consume, to how we make smarter decisions with better outcomes. Automation and personalization are still the methods to get there. And just as mobile opened up space for responsive design, data is a design medium for decision intelligence. …

a designers perspective — I got invited to give a class on interaction design at RISD this past week for the Product Design and Development (PDD) class. It’s Matt’s last class at RISD before he starts a new Integrated Design and Management program at MIT in the fall of 2015. I wanted to share…

a work in progress — conversational interaction patterns — COLLECTION Efficient information retrieval organize : classify : personalize Collections organize and classify entities for a purpose, personal to the owner or an organizational goal. It has map-like orientation, functions like a container and changes over time. In enterprises, data is often silo’d, duplicated and database administrators are tasked with organizing and categorizing entities, structuring data to make…