Rowland: Designing Connected Products

Elizabeth Goodman's design, research, and writing investigates the possibilities and perils of emerging technologies. Most recently, she authored the second edition of Observing the User Experience, a widely-used handbook of design research methods. She has worked with exploratory user experience research teams at Intel, Yahoo!, and Fuji-Xerox. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley's School of Information, where her scholarly research in human-computer interaction was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and an Intel PhD Fellowship. Currently, she works at 18F, a service and product design group within the US government aimed at making federal agencies more efficient, more transparent, more accessible, and more accountable to the people they serve. Elizabeth speaks widely on the design of mobile and pervasive computing systems at conferences, schools, and businesses.

Martin Charlier is an independent design consultant based in London. Martin is a designer with experience across new media art, industrial design, interaction design and design research. His speculative design work has been awarded by the Royal Society of Arts, and he is a fellow of the organization. He has previously worked at innovation firm frog design, cutting-edge art collective rAndom International and digital service design consultancy Fjord. While at Fjord he was involved in the EU-funded Smarcos research project investigating design for the Internet of Things. With his broad range of design skills, Martin's focus is on holistic product and service experiences going across the digital and the physical.

Alfred Lui has been a user experience designer for consumer products since 2004. He created user interfaces and digital services for companies around the world, including The BBC, Motorola, PayPal and Jawbone. In London, he was part of a EU-funded research project to investigate best practices in designing networked objects. Soon after he moved to San Francisco in 2011, he