who we are

Amal Dar Aziz
likes to think of herself as an atypical computer scientist, with a passion for technology, design, art, poetry, creative cooking, and travel adventures. She's also an Interaction Designer at Luidia, based in San Carlos, and did her Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science, specializing in HCI, at Stanford.

Corina Yen
enjoys questioning things, drinking lattes, and wandering around cities. A writer and designer at Luidia and former Masters student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford, her academic interests revolve around design documentation: its role in design process and tools and methods of facilitating it.

Micah Lande
(one name -- MICAH!) likes watching television, playing golf, and playing designer for the stories told through these activities. By day he's a PhD student at the Center for Design Research at Stanford, studying how engineers learn and are taught.

Björn Hartmann
is a designer, academic, tinkerer, recovering musician, scatterbrain. He is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Stanford, working in the Human-Computer Interaction group. His research focuses on physical computing and user interface software tools. 

Editors at Large

Managing Editor

Wendy Ju
has a lifelong passion for design in all its many forms. She teaches design courses at Stanford and the CCA, and has a PhD from the Center of Design Research at Stanford. 

W. Lawrence Neeley
seeks to better understand this thing we call design with the intention of producing both innovative designs and adaptive designers. Currently a lecturer at MIT, he has a PhD from the Center for Design Research at Stanford.

Lora Oehlberg
is a Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley and works with the Berkeley Expert System Technology Lab and the Berkeley Institute of Design. Her research investigates design notebooks and how people use informal design information to support both collaboration and individual cognition. She likes making small robots, crocheted tea-cozies, and homemade ice cream.

Charlotte Burgess-Auburn
pulls together careers in theatrical and editorial production, fine art, educational administration, and retail into the subtle and powerful discipline-spanning skills best described as "cat-herding." She applies these talents as Director of Community at the Stanford d.school.

Lilly Irani
designs, people watches, analyzes, theorizes, handwaves, and enjoys playing covers on her bass guitar. She is pursuing a PhD in Informatics at University of California, Irvine. Previously, she was a User Experience Designer at Google.

Marcello Bastéa-Forte
is an artist, designer, and occasionally messes around with those "computer" things. He is a UI Engineer at Siri by day and cooking good food and running an art web site by night.

Jackie Bernstein
loses even herself as she tries to describe her interest in conceptual-schemas-interacting- with-the-built-environment-to- facilitate-human interaction-via- design-channels. When she can describe an idea without using hyphens, she is a Product Manager and UX Designer at Wavemarket, Inc.

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Copy Editors

Past Staff

Past Editors