Christopher Noessel has shaped interaction design for over 30 years, designing products and services across diverse domains. Back in the dot-com days, he directed information design at marchFIRST, establishing their interaction design Center of Excellence. As a founding graduate of Italy\u2019s legendary Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, his thesis project, Fresh\u2014a service design for lifelong learners\u2014was presented at London\u2019s MLearn conference in 2003. He\u2019s since visualized counterterrorism futures, prototyped forthcoming technologies for Microsoft, and designed telehealth devices. After leaving Microsoft, he joined a boutique San Francisco agency for a decade, where he led the \u201cgenerator\u201d practice and became their first Design Fellow. At IBM as a Design Principal, he ran the worldwide Design for AI guild, as well as a team on the guild. He also developed core AI training for designers and delivered global workshops.<\/p>\n
Christopher\u2019s publications include Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction (2012, with Nathan Shedroff); the 4th Edition of About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design (2014); Pair Design (2016, with Gretchen Anderson); and Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People (2017). He maintains scifiinterfaces.com and occasionally posts to Medium and LinkedIn as the mood strikes.<\/p>\n
He was one half of the world\u2019s first AI-married couple in 2018. His family have what they believe to be the first AI-designed winter holiday sweaters. They are awesome.<\/p>\n
His published science fiction includes \u201cOddments, Pasha\u2019s Autodiary of 07 MAR 2032\u201d (Escape Pod, 2021)\u2014about a drag queen\u2019s encounter with a reclusive artist\u2014and \u201cOn the Eve of the Cumberland Incursion\u201d (Dark Matter Magazine, 2021), depicting a tortured drone behind enemy lines. He has more short stories that no one wants to publish. \ud83d\ude42
\nAsk him about his forthcoming books on generative randomness and designing technology for animals and what each might mean in a world of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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