Dan is a Chief Design Advisor who has led user experience and design at many of the world’s largest companies, including Google, Walmart, Microsoft, UnitedHealth Group, Lloyds Banking Group, Capital One, and Motorola.

Dan started Google’s modular phone Project Ara, designed Hotmail and the original Surface at Microsoft, created “Hey Moto” while leading design research globally at Motorola (which was quickly adopted by Google as the first version of “Hey Google”), and doubled conversion with a redesign of Walmart.com.

He is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts, a founding member of the Design Executive Council, has been granted residence in both Beijing and London as a global design expert, is now a guest-lecturer for design masterclasses at the Royal College of Art and the London School of Economics, a Non-executive Director and Strategic Advisor to design-curious CEO’s, and a respected author and speaker on design and innovation.

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