Christopher Noessel

Christopher Noessel has shaped interaction design for over 30 years, designing products and services across diverse domains. Back in the dot-com days, he directed information design at marchFIRST, establishing its interaction design Center of Excellence. As a founding graduate of Italy’s Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, his thesis project, Fresh—a service design for lifelong learners—was presented at London’s MLearn conference in 2003.

He’s since visualized counterterrorism futures, prototyped forthcoming technologies for Microsoft, and designed telehealth devices. After leaving Microsoft, he joined a boutique San Francisco agency for a decade, where he led the “generator” practice and became its first Design Fellow. At IBM, as a Design Principal, he ran the worldwide Design for AI guild and developed core AI training for designers.

Christopher’s publications include Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction (2012, with Nathan Shedroff), the fourth edition of About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design (2014), Pair Design (2016, with Gretchen Anderson), and Designing Agentive Technology: AI That Works for People (2017).