Matt has been designing digital products and services since 1995, working across startups, research labs, and scaling companies at the intersection of technology, design, and futures.

He is currently Head of Brand & Design at ICEYE, the Finnish space intelligence company that operates the world’s largest constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites — technology capable of seeing through cloud and darkness to enable persistent, high-resolution monitoring of a changing planet.

Prior to ICEYE, he served as Head of Design for AI at Miro, and before that as Head of Design at Lunar Energy, where he worked on products aimed at making clean home electrification simple and elegant.

He spent just under a decade at Google as a Principal Designer — initially at the Creative Lab in New York, working on projects spanning clean energy, AR/VR, and urban computing, followed by six years at Google Research exploring how AI could shape future hardware and software experiences, well before it became a defining topic within the industry.

From 2009 to 2013, he was a founding principal at BERG, the London-based design and invention company whose work on connected objects, physical computing, and speculative futures influenced a generation of designers and technologists. Projects from BERG were exhibited at MoMA and featured in publications including Wired, Fast Company, the Financial Times, and even Marvel Comics.

Earlier in his career, he was Creative Director for the launch of BBC News Online, and co-founded Dopplr, a social travel platform acquired by Nokia in 2009.

He has taught design at the RCA, Goldsmiths, SVA (New York), AHO (Oslo), and CIID (Copenhagen). He originally studied Architecture. He has also been writing about interaction design, technology, and futures at http://petafloptimism.com since 2000.

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