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Author | Lecturer in Design | Problem-Side Designer
Author of Before the Solution (BIS Publishers, November 2026), Lecturer in Design at the University of Sydney, and holder of a PhD in Design Computing and Cognition.
I work on the problem side with managers and multi-disciplinary teams, turning relationship-rich ecosystems into patterns a team can act on, across two decades between the academy and industry.
Living Design Beyond Tools and Templates | Read more
A practical guide to the thinking that comes before the solution, written for designers, students, and anyone working with tools and AI.
BIS Publishers | November 2026
Problem-side consultancy · Sydney | Read more
Most teams do not have a solution problem. They have a problem problem.
Problem-Side Consultancy
The University of Sydney | Read more
Twenty years of university teaching, and the empirical research on design cognition the teaching runs on.
Selected Publications:
Teaching Provenance: Implementing Industry Traceability Practices in Studio-Based HCI Design Units
2026 | EduCHI | DOI: 10.1145/3803869.3803877
Investigating the use of design thinking in identifying wicked problems of startups
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 2026 | DOI: 10.1186/s13731-025-00513-9
Knowledge matching in the technology outsourcing context of online innovation intermediaries
Technology Analysis and Strategic Management | 2014 | DOI: 10.1080/09537325.2014.901500
Commonalities across designing: Empirical results
2014 | Design Computing and Cognition | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9112-0_15
Topics:
Design Cognition and Pedagogy
Knowledge Graph Modelling
Strategy and Management
Design Computing
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