I’m Creative Director at Etsy, where I lead the team of designers building web products and creating off-line experiences. I believe designers must be able to build what they design. I wrote Product Design for the Web, which you just might enjoy.
Streams of things
Good, hard work
- Etsy
- Citizen Scholar Inc.
- Supermarket
- prints about the world we live in, available for purchase
- a book about Product Design for the Web
In other places
Be in touch
Interviews
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
New Hampshire Institute of Art
December 5, 2013 Manchester, New Hampshire
NJ Tech Meet-Up
December 14, 2013
Apps World North America
February 5 & 6, 2014 San Francisco, California
AIGA Charlotte
April 17, 2014 Charlotte, North Carolina
GIANT Conference
June 11-13, 2014 Charleston, South Carolina more info
Smashing Conference
September 2014 Freiburg, Germany
Recent Speaking Engagements
InSource Panel
Frenemies! A Panel Discussion on the In-House/Agency Relationship November 14, 2013 New York, NY more info
AIGA National Design Conference
October 10-12, 2013 Minneapolis, Minnesota more info
Design Week Portland
October 7-12, 2013 more info
AIGA Austin
September 2013
AIGA San Antonio
September 2013
Design Founder Meetup
Building Marketplaces May 8, 2013 Meetup HQ New York, NY more info
Design + Startup Series
Eight Ways We Listen at Etsy IDEO & First Round Capital April 25, 2013 New York, NY
AIGA/NY
Rinse & Repeat: Principles of Product Design at Etsy April 10, 2013 New York, NY
Meet the Pros
NYC College of Technology Design at Etsy with Jeremy Perez-Cruz April 8, 2013 Brooklyn, NY
DesignThinkers 2012
November 8-9, 2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hello Etsy at Dutch Design Week
Shared Economy, panel moderator October 27, 2012 Eindhoven, Netherlands presented by Etsy
Emerce Eday
Guest Speaker October 25, 2012 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Say: Create
Speaker, A Path to Total Design September 11, 2012 Carmel, CA
Digital Buffet Experience Day
Keynote Speaker, Total Design at Etsy June 14, 2012 New York, NY presented by General Assembly
2012 SEGD Conference: The Bridge
Panel, Jumpstart: Concept to Reality on Saturday June 9. June 7-9, 2012 New York, NY more info
dd:Impact
May 31, 2012 Brooklyn, NY A conference from Digital DUMBO on music, design, fashion and food. more info
MAS/DUMBO Career Talk
April 30, 2012 Brooklyn, NY Miami Ad School
Etsy, Local Artists, and Technology
April 26, 2012, 7:30pm Santa Monica, CA Host & Panel Moderator Apple Store Third Street Promenade
MADinSpain
April 13-14, 2012 Madrid, Spain more info
NYU Startup Week Roundtables
March 27, 2012, 6-8pm NYU Stern 44 W 4th St. more info
Life After SVA: Products & Commerce
March 22, 2012 New York City SVA MFA Design Guest Lecture more info
Are We in a Post-Consumer Age? How E-Commerce is Blurring the Lines between Creator and Consumer
February 14, 2012, 12-2pm New York City Panel Discussion Video (partial panel discussion)
Etsy, Local Artists, and Technology
January 28, 2012, 2pm Chicago Host & Panel Moderator Apple Store North Michigan Avenue
Etsy, Local Artists, and Technology
January 7, 2012, 2pm New York City Host & Panel Moderator Apple Store Soho
Etsy + West Elm
December 1, 2011 San Francisco, CA Attendee, Fan, Etsy-lover
Warm Gun Design Conference
December 2, 2011 San Francisco, CA Speaker:Design for Continuous Deployment. Hell yes. official site
Future of Web Design
New York, NY November 7-8, 2011 Speaker: The Future of Branding
Dutch Design Week
Eindhoven, Netherlands October 22-30, 2011 Workshop:Storytelling. Storyselling. Speaker Judge
Appsterdam: Meet the Makers 2
Delft, Netherlands October 26, 2011 Speaker
PICA Conference
Banff, Alberta, Canada May 1-3, 2011 Speaker:Design Patterns
New Jersey Art Director’s Club
New York, NY March 19th, 2011 Judge