I’m an experience designer, strategist and closet anthropologist exploring how culture, institutions, and economics shape the development and use of technologies. Frequent themes of research include the ethics and socio-cultural impacts of data and algorithmically driven services, ad-hoc technological re-appropriation, and "mobile-mostly" business models (with a particular focus on emerging economies).
I hold workshops, speak at design and technology focused conferences around the world, and regularly publish my thinking in presentations and on Medium (RSS). My most recent and popular presentations include Imagining the Physical Web and The Emerging Global Web.
I'm also experimenting with interesting ways to tell speculative stories about today and tomorrow's world.
If you'd like to get in touch, please drop me a line at steph [at] yiibu.com or find me on Twitter.
Presentations
These are my most recent or popular presentations. Many were co-developed by Bryan Rieger and reflect our work @yiibu. See Slideshare for a full archive. For ongoing news and thoughts please follow me on Twitter .
Recent appearances
Amsterdam
- Keynote: The Emerging Global Web at Mobilism, March 27 in Amsterdam.
Stockholm
- Letting Go at Funka Accessibility Days in Stockholm.
DusseldÖrf
- The Emerging Global Web at Beyond Tellerand in Dusseldorf and Berlin.
Melbourne
- Designing for disruption at ThoughtWorks Live in Melbourne.
Portland
- The Internet of Things is for People at Responsive Field Day in Portland.
San Francisco
- The Internet of Things is for People at Generate Conf in San Francisco.