Chris Noessel

Designer, Consultant, and Public Speaker in California

Chris Noessel

Designer, Consultant, and Public Speaker in California

The Hire Me button ^^^ is for public speaking engagements.

As a veteran of the UX field, I design products, services, and strategy for a variety of domains, including health, financial, and consumer. In prior experience I've developed interactive kiosks and spaces for museums, helped to visualize the future of counter-terrorism, built prototypes of coming technologies for Microsoft, and designed telehealth devices to accommodate the crazy facts of modern healthcare. I publish about design, sci-fi, and AI.

My spidey sense goes off about random topics, and this has led me to speak at conferences about a wide range of things including interactive narrative, ethnographic user research, interaction design, sex-related interactive technologies, free-range learning, and, most recently, the relationship between science fiction and interface design. I was one of the founding graduates of the now-passing-into-legend Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy, where my grad thesis was a service design for lifelong learners called Fresh.

I work with IBM, as Design Principal focused on Applied AI. I managed a two year term running the worldwide Design for AI guild. I have published several books you can see below, and am working on others.

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