Designing and educating about design systems that are useful, usable, accessible, and delightful.
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A lecture and Q&A for World IA Day (WAID 2025) at ArtCenter College of Design.
I teach UX, UI, design systems and AI-assisted design in university programs, bootcamps, and team workshops.
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UCLA Extension
UC Irvine Extension
Loyola Marymount University
UT AustinResource from Optimal Workshop
A talk and Q&A on how AI-powered tools can generate UX scenarios and build worlds faster, with a case study using FigJam, Visual Electric AI and ChatGPT. Recorded for Optimal Workshop, about 54 minutes.
Podcast from ZURB Glare
A podcast interview on how AI is reshaping user research and design practices, and how teams can use it to build and visualize UX scenarios.
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A workshop at ArtCenter College of Design where we practice using Figma color variables to advance modalities in a design system.
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The lecture slides for the ArtCenter workshop, plus the final Figma style guide the students built toward.
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An introduction lecture for the UX/UI Boot Camp at UC Irvine Extension.
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A Designlab workshop on starting ideation with a pen, then bringing AI in to extend the ideas.
Guest lecture
A guest lecture and conversation with Dr. G at ArtCenter College of Design on the Art of Research class.
A workshop on collaborating with generative AI as a UX team, recorded at the UXPA 2025 conference.
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Sketching-first ideation with AI, recorded for Designlab.
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A lecture and workshop for the symposium "Teach for Tomorrow: Redesigning the Future," on using generative AI with design students.
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