As an industrial designer, his areas of expertise include industrial design professional practice, design thinking, design theory and manufacturing materials, processes and technologies. He has published articles in MIT’s Design Issues and the UK’s The Design Journal, and in 2008 he co-edited, together with Ezio Manzini and Stuart Walker, a book entitled Enabling Solutions for Sustainable Living: A Workshop, which was published by the University of Calgary Press. He also maintains an industrial design practice in Calgary, completing product design projects for a number of Western Canadian manufacturers including medical devices, sporting goods, GPS equipment and consumer electronics.