The Design Position
Every connected system contains unrealized social potential.
To notice a situation. To make a gesture. To participate in the life of the people and places around it.
Our work starts from a simple question: what role could technology play?
* A note on this work: these are experience propositions, not technical documentation. All client specifics remain confidential. What is shown here is how we think.
Six beliefs that organize how we see connected, adaptive technology — and what design can do about it.
Living_with_technology
The design scope has expanded. Most design practice has not caught up.
Expressive_interaction
AI systems can respond to commands. The question is whether they can attend to situations.
Resonance
Technology that resonates doesn't just function. It understands something about the situation it's in.
Social_accessories
Objects have social skills. Most of them go unused.
Techno-social_situation
The design space where technology meets human life in full — not just at the task.
Surplus_of_social_possibility
Every situation contains more than its current design reveals.
Curriculum_of_new_design_situation
The complete design position. Six beliefs. One argument.
Experience Systems
Platform level thinking
These are frameworks for how a connected ecosystem — a vehicle platform, a mobility network, an AI system — can be organized around the social life it is already inside.
Expressive Companion
What if an AI system expressed what it notices, rather than only responding to commands?
Mobility Commons
Designing for emergent techno-social frameworks
A new kind of Participant
Articulating Software Defined Vehicle through distinctive techno-social situations
Electriquette
Electrification needs new social infrastructure, not just new technical infrastructure
Experience Propositions
Individual concept prototypes: specific situations where technology plays an unexpected social role.
Each proposition begins in the same place: a particular context, a connected system already present in it, and the question — what else could this do?
The answers are concrete and inhabitable. They are not finished products. They are design questions made tangible enough to build toward.
Walk_with_me
What if a parked car could light a stranger's path?
Curious_mirror
What if a parked car turned to look at you?
Care_and_presence
In serious illness, adaptive technology is already present. The question is whether it participates in the care.
Ring_my_bell
Connected civility - how objects and systems can act as disarming instigators of embodied social values and relationships. * US Patent granted
Social_headphones
Equipping products with social skills.
It’s_going_to_rain
Parked cars that hear rain coming and tell the people walking past.
Small_talk_bus_stop
A bus stop that lets you talk to birds. On the social possibility of ordinary waiting.
Sound_compass
Investigating spatial awareness as emotional awareness.
Free_range_umbrellas
Strangers need strange moments together. Making encounters slightly more possible.