My research and applied work span design theory, software development, and technology, focusing on how systems of knowledge, coordination, and sensemaking shape & distort public life.
- Portland Digital Corps: a civic sprint experiment connecting local technologists with community organizations
- Tardigrade: AI Disclosure patterns
- SKEEBoard: a session-based rating system for competitive skeeball
- Fragrance Selector: My 90s designed fragrance collection selector using a domain I didn't end up using
- Civic Grift: a joke site about the performance of civic innovation
Research & Practice Interests
design epistemology discursive and critical design design as inquiry context engineering agent experience socio-technical systems state capacity and digital governance organizational sensemaking institutional knowledge and learning public service design and delivery cybernetic planning and feedback technopolitics and administrative rationality AI-mediated decision-making human–AI relations and interpretability policy and algorithmic design collective coordination and interagency systems comparative governance models design anthropology and situated practice media ecologies and digital publics knowledge infrastructures and procedural legibility temporalities of modernization ethics of automation and delegation design pedagogy and civic competence