1. You trained as a sociologist before becoming a design leader. How does having a sociology PhD change the way you read a product? What do you notice that a purely technical designer might miss?

2. When you're evaluating a new wearable concept, what human need do you keep coming back to as the real test of whether something belongs in someone's life, rather than just on someone's wrist?

3. You've said the next decade could bring "an entirely new category of wearables" as datasets and AI tools mature. What’s a category of wearable that doesn’t exist yet but you believe could emerge in the next five to ten years because computational design will make it possible?

4. If you were designing a "city of the future" today, informed by everything you’ve learned from wearables and computational design, what’s the first human behavior you’d want to understand before drawing anything?

5. What’s a city, culture, or design tradition outside your own that has influenced the way you think about product design? Why?

News & Updates

• What book(s) or article(s) did you read this past month that stayed with you? What takeaways do you have?

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