Erik Dahl

Current

User Experience Designer Senior Associate at Lextant

Past

Interaction Designer and Anthropologist at MAYA Design
Design Researcher at Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work
UX Designer at HumanCentric Technologies

Education

University of Michigan
Centre College

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Industry

Design

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Erik Dahl’s Summary

I work as an interaction designer, experience designer, information architect and design anthropologist. I work on everything from websites, applications, handheld products, wearable devices, and environments.

I design better products and better experiences by first thoroughly studying user expectations and behavior.

My anthropology background gives me a prime vantage point for understanding the mental models of users. My love for language, metaphor, and nuance in the context of human experience helps me transform information systems into responsive and adaptive human-centered designs.

I am equally at home in the worlds of theory and praxis, I often lull myself to sleep at night with thoughts about cultural-semiotics, information bricolage, theories and implications of the social self, as well as concepts of "social-themeparking."

I earned an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from the School of Information at University of Michigan. While there, working for the Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, I mapped the landscape of scientific "collaboratories" and the associated socio-technical implications of tightly coupled, distributed work.

I also hold a B.A. in both Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy. Prior to working at Lextant and MAYA Design, I conducted field research in diverse locales, such as the Napo River basin in Ecuador, pool halls in Kentucky, as well as various publishing companies.