Summary
Matt Nish-lapidus is a Toronto-based interaction designer, creative technologist, artist, and musician with 17 years crafting experiences that span digital libraries, enterprise software, video games, and large-scale public installations. He teaches design at the University of Toronto and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, bringing practice-led research and a studio sensibility to academic settings. His career began assisting notable new media artists while he developed an independent practice that has served clients from Coca-Cola to unfunded startups. Matt focuses on how networked systems shape places and behaviors, using beauty and expressiveness to make more humane, surprising interfaces. As a longtime curator and educator he blends hands-on prototyping, performance-led art, and cross-disciplinary collaboration—often working under monikers like New Tendencies, må, and Soft Thoughts.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer