Selected News
Top 50 Thinkers: On the Radar 2018
Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions, 2018
Laura Dern & DL Director Say Creators Need to ‘Catch Up’ With Audience’s Desire for Diverse Stories, AdWeek, 2018
Fifteen Professors of the Year, Harvard Crimson, 2016
Sample Media Coverage
Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses, MIT Media Lab, 2020
A living (room) lab: With students off campus, faculty and staff innovated to redesign hands-on courses, Harvard SEAS, 2020
Chef League (mobile game) challenges you to improvise recipes like the pros, VentureBeat, 2019.
Smart kitchens need smarter ideas to solve real problems. Fortune, 2019
Loneliness, the fear of digital nomads, Le Temps. (in French), 2019
When it comes to innovation, it's personal: The secret to successful innovation isn't a great idea; it's great people. The Business Post, 2019
Design for Desirability: Game design challenge requires students to think outside the box, Harvard SEAS, 2019
Mapping the Flavor Genome Project. The Spoon (podcast), 2019
Tech that helps us understand ourselves, Future Assembly, 2019
Apply the science of desirability to game design at GDC, Gamasutra: The art and business of making games, 2019
Applying human-centered design processes to build successful teams. Into Practice, Harvard Vice Provost Office for Advances in Learning, 2019
Women changing the way we think about innovation. Stern Speakers, 2019
Top 50 Thinkers: On the Radar 2018
Emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions, 2018
Local Design for Global Life, Dezeen, 2018
Rolling toward a user-friendly commute: Harvard faculty-led startup pioneers human-centric urban travel, 2017 (also in Tech Xplore here); Vespa's New Robot Will Carry Your Groceries, CNN Money, 2017
What does an aspiring founder need to know? Harvard Business Review, 2017.
Five Cutting Edge Ideas and Attractions, Boston.com, 2017; Technology That Helps Us Understand Ourselves, HUBWeek, 2017
Food for Thought: Flavor & Algorithms, MIT Museum, 2017
Harvard Aims to Reinvent Business-Engineering Education, Harvard Magazine, 2017
Globetrotting Digital Nomads: The future of work or too good to be true?, Forbes, 2015; Why is a Harvard professor studying digital nomads, Nomadlist, 2015
The nature of desirability, The Design Issue, Kinfolk Magazine (paywall), 2015-2016
The flavor of feelings: wine, emotion, and context. Boston Chefs, 2015
Harvard Class Teaches the Design of Desirability, Boston Magazine, 2015
How big money can encourage calculated risks in the classroom, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014
A new model for innovation in big companies, Harvard Business Review, 2013
Present at the Creation (Putting research-based creativity tips to the test), Boston Magazine, 2013