Dan Lockton

Bio

Dr Dan Lockton is a designer and researcher, specializing in the links between design, understanding, and people's behavior, particularly with respect to behavior change for social and environmental benefit. He is Assistant Professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design and is a regular speaker at industry and academic events.

Between 2013–16, Dan worked at the Royal College of Art, London, at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’s Work & City and Age & Ability Labs, and as a research tutor in Innovation Design Engineering, supervising research in areas including cybernetics and the Internet of Things, design for behavior change around product repair, and applications of synesthesia in design. His own research currently focuses on novel interfaces for energy monitoring and other systems in the home, exploring people’s understanding of (and interaction with) systems from the environment to government, and more nuanced approaches to the field of design for behavior change. Dan earned his PhD from Brunel University, London, developing the Design with Intent toolkit, a multidisciplinary pattern library for designers working on behavior change, and also has a Masters in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge.