Christopher NoesselChristopher 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 Excelence. As a founding graduate of Italy's legendary Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, his thesis project, Fresh--a service design for lifelong learners--was presented at London's MLearn conference in 2003. He's 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 "generator" 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.

Christopher's 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.

He was one half of the world's first AI-married couple in 2018. His family have what they believe to be the first AI-designed winter

holiday sweaters. They are awesome.

His published science fiction includes "Oddments, Pasha's Autodiary of 07 MAR 2032" (Escape Pod, 2021)--about a drag queen's encounter with a reclusive artist--and "On the Eve of the Cumberland Incursion" (Dark Matter Magazine, 2021), depicting a tortured drone behind enemy lines. He has more short stories that no one wants to publish.: )

Ask him about his forthcoming books on generative randomness and designing technology for animals and what each might mean in a world of AI.