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. Currently, I’m writing Product Design for the Web, which will be published by New Riders in November 2013.
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
AIGA Austin
September 2013
AIGA San Antonio
September 2013
Design Week Portland
October 7-12, 2013
more info
Apps World Europe
October 22-23, 2013
London, UK
more info
Recent Speaking Engagements
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