At the intersection of new technology and everyday life you’ll find Dan’s work, changing how people think, work, and connect.

The son of a plumber and a psychologist, Dan feels the interaction design he does is a little bit of both. Since 1995, he’s designed everything from websites to consumer electronics to robots. He feels that design isn’t only about problem solving, but about creating a better, more humane, future.

At Smart Design, Dan is one of the directors of the interaction design practice, leading and advising teams to create new interaction paradigms across a wide range of products, spanning both digital and physical. Dan’s insightful, thoughtful approach to design has been captured in the four books he’s written—Microinteractions, Designing for Interaction, Designing Gestural Interfaces, and Designing Devices—which are required reading for any student of interaction design.

Dan has worked with a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 giants such as Microsoft and Time Warner to startups like AnyBots. He speaks and teaches workshops on design around the world. In 2008, he coined the term “topless meeting” (for a meeting without laptops), which was a finalist for Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year and Time Magazine’s #10 Buzzword of 2008. He has a Masters of Design in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dan is doing the workshop How to Design Microinteractions on Monday 10th February.

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