Artifacts From the Future: The Impact of Time Travel on Design with Leo Frishberg of athenahealth
Channel: BayCHI, San Francisco Bay Area ACM SIGCHI
Date: 13/07/2022

https://baychi.org/calendar/20220712/

"To predict the future, invent it." So goes the quote from Alan Kay in 1971 and Dennis Gabor before him. But inventing the future is fraught: it's risky, expensive, and time consuming. With the future arriving faster than we can create it, how can an innovator stay ahead?

The most direct approach relies on time travel: Simply bring the desired solution back from the future. In this talk, Frishberg reveals how designers can leverage the superpower of time travel they may not know they have.

Leo Frishberg is director of User Experience at athenahealth.  Leo's career in design spans over 30 years, beginning with his architectural (bricks-and- mortar) practice in the mid-80s. In 1984 he founded Phase II, his consulting practice. In the 90s he engaged in several entrepreneurial startups. Since 2004, Leo has held leadership and management positions at Techtronix, Intel, The Home Depot Quote Center.

For over 20 years, Leo  has served on the board of the Computer-Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (CHIFOO, pronounced KI-foo), Portland and southwest Washington's local chapter, a regional counterpart to BayCHI. Recently, he has lead the North American chapter of Design at Business, a nonprofit dedicated to applying design thinking and innovation to the world's most difficult problems. 

Leo delights in facilitating discussions around his design-research method, Presumptive Design (presumptivedesign.com), detailed in his book of the same name, co-authored with Charles Lambdin.

In addition to his Bachelors in Environmental Planning and Masters in Architecture, Leo has been awarded six patents, all within the area of user experience and information visualization. Leo is a Certified SCRUM Product Owner and is a California Licensed Architect.