Hello and welcome to my portfolio site. I am a multi-media professional with over five years experience in creating interactive experiences. I love building anything people touch- mobile and web interfaces, kiosks, museum installations, toys, and my own sculpture.

I've been an active consultant this past year working with NYU, Disney, AT&T, and currently leading a project for ESI Design. Previous to being a mom, I was at Schematic, Inc. where I led the User Experience Design for MOSH, a mobile sharing site initiated by Nokia. For anything else before that, have a peek at my resume (downloadable on the bottom left).

Bits of my work from 2002 to now exist on this site. These projects have been a chance for me to experiment with interactivity and collaborate with some of the best people in the industry. The one thing always trying to be improved is my understanding of awareness, attention, and gesture. With the right framework, these principles can work together to make any experience a little more remarkable.
Me and Blue walking over the Brooklyn Bridge, 2/08

November, 2007
Currently I am a free agent involved in all sorts of independent and corporate UX work. And one of my favorite projects is designing toys for my little girl, Blue. They are still being made, but think organic shapes, black and white graphics peppered with LEDs. Photos will be up soon!

In the meantime, I've been doing some research into Multi Sensory Rooms (currently reading a book by the same name) and have some rough cuts of videos I've been working on to promote relaxation. Taken from a studio overlooking the Hudson, have a look- Video 1 & Video 2

September 2007
Nokia launches it's public version of MOSH! MOSH is a free mobile content sharing site, check it out at http://mosh.nokia.com

July 2007
Project Newton is live! Send a photo with your mobile device to, new@projectnewton.org, and get an image back. It's fun and free!

January 2007
Over the holiday break, my friend Brian House and I tested out a new cellphone application we developed. It's a simple concept involving photo sharing; you send a photo, you get a photo back. So within a community of friends, users could submit a photo of their NYE celebration, and within seconds they would get a photo in return. It's a constant cycle of sending and receiving, with the received photo being the most recently submitted. We're planning to roll it out publicly next month, and if you're interested in testing it out with us, please send me an email, emilyconrad at gmail dot com.

December 2006
This weekend we had a piece up at the Angel Orensanz Center in the Lower East Side. It was a huge party thrown by our friends over at Control Group in celebration of their 5th year. Video of the installation and event here.

October 2006
I am thrilled to announce that Verizon and Verizon Wireless unveiled the Hybrid Store in Southlake, Texas. I worked on this project as the lead Interactive Designer for the first six months of conception and execution. I was thrilled to work on an interactive retail store and start meshing web technologies with physical space. For more details, see 3mph.org/rga.html, where I have links to the kiosk content and images of the store.

Since July 2006 I have been the Interactive Consultant and Information Architect for the redesign the Alan Lomax Archives & Society for Cultural Equity web sites. Our team of four has been busy "geoarchiving" the 10,000 song database that Alan Lomax recorded that represent 60 years of his work (his personal collection, separate from what the Smithsonian owns). We are plotting each recording to its geographical location via Google Maps in an effort to make browsing this database quicker and easier. Users will for the first time be able to listen to the all of the recordings from around the world. This site will be live at the end of the month, at which time I will post the link.

We also have a project on the Glowlab site of a recent cell phone/FM broadcast renegade experiment, called Scout: the city in audio. It was a performance for Conflux, which if you like psychogeography, you should rally look into. There were some great artists involved this year.

Also this month we launched, Field..