I'm a graduate student in The Information School at the University of Washington, advised by David Hendry. I'm also a member of dub, a multi-disciplinary alliance of human-computer interaction researchers in the university community.
My research primarily concerns the role of information in design processes; the ways people seek, organize and share the information they need to do creative things. I'm especially interested in the representation and exchange of practical, how-to knowledge in the context of do-it-yourself activity. Some of my other interests include design education, end-user design and development and histories and theories of design.
As an undergraduate, I studied architecture and philosophy after an initial year in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and I have a master's degree in histories and theories from the Architectural Association in London. In practice, I've worked as an architect, a software developer and an interaction designer. Prior to joining the iSchool, I was a PhD Student in the School of Architecture and an interaction designer with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon.
