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Chris Noessel

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About

In his day job at Cooper, Christopher designs products and services for a variety of domains, including health, financial, and consumer; as well as teaching, speaking, and evangelising design internationally. Prior experience includes developing kiosks for museums, helping to visualise the future of counter-terrorism, building prototypes of coming technologies for Microsoft, and designing telehealth.

His spidey-sense goes off semi-randomly, leading him to speak about a range of things including interactive narrative, ethnographic user research, interaction design, sex-related technologies, free-range learning, generative randomness, and designing for the future.

He is co-author of Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction (Rosenfeld Media 2012), and the force behind the blog scifiinterfaces.com.

Listen to the podcast episode with Chris Noessel.

Gorgeous Catastrophic

Through the book Make it So (Rosenfeld Media, 2012) and scifiinterfaces.com, Chris has spent years meticulously tracing the lines of influence between designs in sci-fi and the real world. And yes, there are clearly influences. But that does not mean that design in the real world should take its marching orders from sci-fi. Sure, a lot of it is jaw-droppingly beautiful. But some of those same, lovely designs—if implemented—would quickly result in the “usability problems” of severed limbs, munitions craters, mangled bodies, and even the plain old end of the world. Join Chris as he deconstructs enough examples to make us deeply, deeply wary of fetishizing them, and approach sci-fi interfaces with a critical (and still intact) eye.

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fantastic lineup!

Registration
Opening Remarks
Brian David Johnson Designing the Future…and Building It…with Science Fiction!
Matt Novak A Brief History of Tomorrow
Break
John Willshire Metadesign For Murph
Josh Clark Magical UX and the Internet of Things
Chris Noessel Gorgeous Catastrophic
Lunch
Nick Foster The Future Mundane
Carla Diana Designing the Future Through Tangible Storytelling
Ingrid Burrington Come With Me If You Want To Live, or How To Survive A Time Travel Paradox
Break
Dan Hill The City of Things
Mark Stevenson Up for Grabs
Closing Remarks
After Party

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There are plenty of hotels too: Ibis, MyHotel, Artist Residence, Jury’s Inn, and Fhloston Paradise to name just a few.

To eat

For traditional earthly sustenance, you could beam yourself to the weekly Street Diner food market. There are also lots of ground-level restaurants and cafés nearby, where you can grab a bite during the lunch break (the lunch break lasts for an hour and a half so you’ll have plenty of time).

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Clearleft is a user experience design consultancy based in Brighton, UK. We design delightful digital experiences.