Dan Saffer

Dan Saffer is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, a product design leader, and the author of four books: Designing Devices (2011), Designing Gestural Interfaces (2008), Designing for Interaction (2006, 2009) and the best-selling Microinteractions (2013).

Since 1995, he's designed devices, apps, websites, wearables, appliances, automotive interiors, services, social networks, and robots. He’s worked at and for such companies as Twitter, Smart Design, Samsung, Jawbone, CNN, Philips, and Microsoft — and was most recently Head of Product Design at Flipboard.