Education
2018
PhD in Language and Literacy Education
University of British Columbia
2009
Master in Information Design
Universidad de las Américas, Puebla
2001
Bachelor in Graphic Design
Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas
Additional training and memberships
2022
Research Operations
Norman Nielsen Group
2022-2024
Member at large
Qualitative Research Consultants Association
2021
Cultural Protocols, Empathy and Safety
Nahanee Creative
2nd. Cohort
HmntyCntrd
2020
Google Analytics for Beginners
Advanced Google Analytics
Google Analytics Academy
2018
UX Research & Strategy
DesignLab
Employment
2023–
Associate Teaching Professor of Design
Coordinator of the MSc in Information Design and Data Visualisation
College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern University, Vancouver.
2019-2025
Adjunct Professor
Master of Educational Technology
University of British Columbia
Previous employment
2016-2023
Director of Research
Charitable Impact, Vancouver
2014-2019
Lecturer
Master of Educational Technology
University of British Columbia
2012-2017
Coordinator
Digital Literacy Centre
University of British Columbia
2012-2016
Researcher, Interface Design
Implementing New Knowledge Environments
MEXICO
2007-2012
Cofounder and Editor
Mono Magacín
2007-2010
Head of Department
Graphic Design School
Universidad Anáhuac, Tampico
Contributions
Peer-reviewed articles
Book chapters
Unrefereed articles
Conference papers
- Rage Against The Machine: A Roundtable on an Arts Community’s Reactions Toward AI Art
- A Seamless Graft? Considering the integration of language and literacy scholars into data-driven companies
- Computational Thinking & Pedagogical Playing
- Glass Cast: Visualización para Humanidades Digitales
- Transmediation
- Agudeza Visual en la Didáctica de la Tipografía
- Visual Literacy: A Case of Study
- Performing Graduate Class Online: Domestic and International Students’ Academic Discourse Socialization in a Blended Doctoral Course.
- Exquisite Error and the Appeal of the Accidental
- Probing Digital Scholarly Curation through the Dynamic Table of Contexts
- On Metaphor in Text Visualization Prototypes
- Rastreando la Alfabetidad Visual
- Friendly Fire? A Study of Academic Discourse Socialization Among Two International and Two Domestic Students Entering a Canadian University
- Passing Notes: Four PhD Students’ Collaborative Reflection on Their Academic Discourse Socialization into First-Year Doctoral Studies in a Canadian University
- Visualizing Knowledge Networks: The Glass Cast Prototype
- Collaboration by Design: Institutional Innovation through Interface Aesthetics
- Prospects and Pitfalls of Workflow Management in Born-Digital Projects
- Why is it Doing That? Usability and Interface Metaphors in Workflow
- The Design of New Knowledge Environments
- Managing the Editorial Process: A Study of Workflow
- Browsing Metaphors
- El Libro Como Interfaz
- Text Technologies: A ten Year Retrospective on Online Distance Learning and The Rise of Social Media
Talks and Workshops
- Taller de Glitch
- Information Design and the Fine Line between Innovation and Consistency
- Los 3 Momentos de la Alfabetidad Visual
- Glitch, Diseño y Transmediación
- On Visual Acuity and Type Design
- Yo Tengo Otros Datos: Un Portafolio de Teoría en Diseño
- Proyectos de Humanidades Digitales: Mis Experiencias y Contribuciones
- Datafolding: Pattern-Based Databending
- In Defence of Glitches
- TEDxEmilyCarrU: Sounds, Senses and Glitches
- Research and the Liminal Spaces
- TechTalks: More than Fake News
- A Walk in the Wild Side
- Issues that Matter: Fake News
- Beyond the Buzz: Navigating Deceptive Media
- Deceptive Media in the Classroom
- Knowledge Mobilization and Interdisciplinarity: A Rant
- Beyond the Northwest Tree Octopus: Visual analysis as key to critical digital literacy II
- Visualizing Texts Through Experimental Interfaces: Plot Vis And Glass Cast
- Beyond the Northwest Tree Octopus: Visual analysis as key to critical digital literacy I
- Interdigiplinarity!
Panels
- Upskilling and Reskilling for a Future-Ready Workforce
- Designing with Strategy: How Early UX Decisions Impact Your Product Roadmap
- Looking into the Crystal Ball of Tech: What’s next?
- Convergencia Entre la Inteligencia Artificial y la Tipografía
- Emergent Metaphors: The Visualization Process
- Post-Graduation Careers panel
- Visual Literacy: Seeing, Making, and Reading Images Across the Disciplines
- Life After your PhD: Jobs beyond the Academy