Currently
Founder and CEO at Little Riot, developing connected products that enable human connection in an otherwise very digital world.
Advising Glasgow School of Art on their MDes Design Innovation programme, including curriculum design and guest lecturing in Interaction Design
Recently
Delivered a series of talks, workshops and mentoring in Australia around building human-centric technology, including working with universities, corporates, accelerator programmes and incubators.
Worked with IoT London and many other wonderful people to collaboratively create a certification mark for IoT products.
Worked with students at Ada National College of Digital Skills to support their understanding and design of human-focussed digital products
Spoke at an in-house event at The Guardian about the realities of running a small business. A podcast was also recorded and is available here.
Speaking
Including, but not exhaustive:
Digital Health Technology Show - ‘Running a Healthcare Business’ (London, March 2020)
University of Sydney and others - ‘Building Human Technology’ (Sydney, October - December 2019)
Festival of Doers - ‘Being Human in a Digital World’ (London, January 2018)
Mobile World Congress - 'The Future of Internet of Things' (Barcelona, February 2016)
UKTI Jumpstart - 'Creating a UK-China Technology Hub' (Shenzhen, March 2016)
Thinking Digital - 'Creating Mindful Connected Products' (London, March 2016)
GSMA Mobile 360 - 'The Future of Wearables' (Brussels, May 2016)
Digital Festival - 'Innovation Without Fear' (Brussels, June 2016)
Tech Open Air - 'Founder Burnout and How to Avoid It' (Berlin, July 2015)
WIRED Next Generation - 'Inspiring Entrepreneurship in Teenagers' Workshop (London, October 2015)
London Design Meetup - 'Design in Context' (London, November 2015)
Unbound Conference 'A Future of Meaningful Technology' (December 2015)
Workshops and Consulting
Available to guide you in creating meaningful user experiences and emotionally-engaging interactions for your business, products or services. Half or full day workshops/consultations to suit any size of team. Prior work mostly under NDA but references/testimonials available on request.
Please contact Joanna for availability and pricing for consulting and workshops.
You can also book Joanna for a Skype consultation (or face-to-face if located in London) to brainstorm or discuss a particular topic.
