I give shape to complicated problems.

I find where an organisation’s information, rules and services stop matching the people who use them, and redesign them.

Books

New this month: Compression vs Clarity and Great Cities, Unique Fails.

Compression vs ClarityHong Kong compresses. Taiwan clarifies.Out in October

Great Cities, Unique FailsEvery city writes one version of itself down, and lives in another.Out in October

20There Are Only Twenty ScreensMike Oustamanolakis

There Are Only Twenty ScreensEvery website is assembled from the same small set of screens.In progress

Institutes

I am building six independent institutes, each devoted to one subject and built to be read in the open: Interfaces, Symbolic, Written, Hanzi Design, Canto and Corpus.

The register →

About

20 years across Europe and Asia. 7 as managing director of a design consultancy in Hong Kong. Since 2020, UK higher education. Doctorate in design from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.