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TALKS

BRAND EXPERIENCE ECOSYSTEMS (2022)

Strategies for navigating brand, product, and experience ecosystems

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WEB3 MECHANICS + AFFORDANCES (2022)

Metaverse and NFT overview with strategic brand experience design recommendations

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AI + RESPONSIVE EXPERIENCE (2023)

The evolution of computational storytelling and experience design methodologies

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FUTURE OF NARRATIVE MONETIZATION (2022)

Emerging narrative business models with storyworlds and volumetric worlds at the center

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WORLD STORY CHARACTER (2020)

Computational storytelling methodologies for data-based emergent narratives

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CHARACTER ARCHITECTURES (2020)

Data architectures for responsive user narrative experiences 

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DECONSTRUCTING MEDIUMS (2020)

Narrative affordances of mediums and how to translate story across formats

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PARTICIPATORY STORYTELLING CULTURE (2016)

New models of storytelling and monetization that account for user participation 

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OUR FIVE WORLDS (2021)

The rules for user identity, interaction, and community across the different layers of our reality

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WHAT IS THE METAVERSE? (2020)

Systems design considerations to account for in the development of the metaverse

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IT'S CHARACTERS ALL THE WAY DOWN (2020)

User + character design frameworks for virtual beings in virtual worlds.

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DESIGNING COMPLEX SOLUTIONS (2022) +
WORLDBUILDING INNOVATION (2019)

How to bring systems thinking and human-centered design to the creation of product solutions

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