I feel strongly that design and language are closely connected. The process of design is a creative one that involves and is centered around communication, and I feel there is a close and rhetorical connection between the designer and the message they are trying to communicate through the designed artifact.

• Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner's Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis.
  To be published by Oxford University Press.
• Thoughts on Interaction Design.
  Published by Morgan Kaufmann; ISBN 978-0123786241.
• Designing in the Face of Change: The Elusive Push Towards Emotionally Resonate Experiences.
  To be published in The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, published by Taylor & Francis.
• Abductive Thinking and Sensemaking: The Drivers of Design Synthesis.
  Published in MIT's Design Issues, 26:1, Winter 2010.
• Our Misguided Focus on Brand and User Experience.
  Published on Johnny Holland, December 1st, 2009.
• The Authenticity Problem.
  Published in interactions magazine, issue XVI.6, November/December, 2009
• The Appearance of Influence
  Published in Design Mind, issue 10
• On Creation and Consumption.
  Published in interactions magazine, issue XVI.5, September/October, 2009
• The Tenuous Relationship Between Design and Innovation
  Published in Artifact Magazine, Volume 1, issue 3.
• On Hopelessness and Hope.
  Published in interactions magazine, issue XVI.4, July/August, 2009
• Information Architecture and Design Strategy:
  The Importance of Synthesis during the Process of Design.
  Published in the IDSA 2007 Educational Conference Proceedings.
• Information Architecture: Synthesis Techniques for the Muddy Middle of the Design Process.
  Published in the 23rd International Conference on the Beginning Design Student Proceedings.
• Design as Communication: The Increasing Case for Literacy in Academia.
  Published in the IDSA 2005 Educational Conference Proceedings.
• New Techniques in Industrial Design Education.
  Published in the 6th International Conference of the European Academy of Design.
• Mixing Disciplines in Anticipation of Convergence: A Curriculum for Teaching Interaction Design to Industrial Designers.
  Published in Interactions Magazine.
• User-Driven Brand Design : Establishing a Convergent Brand Experience.
  Published in Tweak, Q4/03.

I learn a lot from presenting my ideas to other people; it gives me a chance to structure an educational set of content, distilling down my ideas to their essence. Here are some recent talks I've given.

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• My Heart Is In The Work.
  Presented at the 2010 Interaction Design Association Conference (IxDA).
• On Hiring Design Graduates.
  Presented at Carnegie Mellon University's HCII Pro Seminar.
• A New Global Design Intellectualism.
  Presented at the 2009 Industrial Design Society of America Mideast Conference.
• Methods of Design Synthesis.
  Presented at the 2009 ASU Design Research Conference.
• Experience Design is a Bunch of Horse-Shit; or, "Why Words Matter".
  Presented at Simon Fraser University.
• Interaction Design Synthesis; Translating Research into Insight.
  Presented at the 2009 Interaction Design Association Conference (IxDA).
• Designing in the Face of Change; The Elusive Push Towards Emotionally Resonate Experiences.
  Presented at the 2008 Industrial Designers Society of America Conference.
• Information Architecture is Design Synthesis.
  Presented at the 2007 Industrial Designers Society of America Northern Regional Conference.
• Information Architecture and Design Strategy.
  Presented at the 2007 Industrial Designers Society of America Conference.
• The Role of Visual Data Organization in Requirement Mapping and Definition.
  Presented at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Design as Communication - The Increasing Case for Literacy in Academia.
  Presented at the 2005 Industrial Designers Society of America Eastman Educational Conference.