About Dan Saffer
I’m an interaction designer, creative director, speaker and teacher, and the author of two books: Designing Gestural Interfaces and Designing for Interaction. I’m the creative director for Nectarine, which does UX design for consumer devices and their connected services.
Since 1995, I’ve designed devices, software, websites, and services. Millions of people every day use the products I’ve designed. I speak at conferences and teach workshops on interaction design all over the world. I’m the proud owner of a Masters of Design in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University, and my design innovations have received several patents.
You can find me on these social networks:
I have number of side projects you might be interested in:
- Syntactic Devices where I’m working on building robots, appliances, and, well, devices.
- Designing Devices, a blog about device design.
- No Ideas But In Things, a collection of physical interfaces for inspiration.
- The Interaction Design Library, where I curate articles, books, presentations, and videos on design going back to the 1940s.
I’m married to the business and technology journalist Rachael King, and we have a ten-year-old daughter Fiona who attends San Francisco Friends School.
I coined the term “topless meeting,” which was an Oxford Dictionary Finalist for Word of the Year 2008 and Time Magazine’s #10 Buzzword of 2008.
I’m an ENTJ, a Thinker, a T-Shaped Person, and an Aquarius. I enjoy listening to indie pop music, reading historical fiction, watching copious amounts of television, and imbibing Guinness.
I play the cello. Badly. I have trouble drawing straight lines.