Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.