About

I'm James Intriligator. I trained in psychology and cognitive science at Harvard, where I studied perception and attention, and I have moved between fields ever since.

From 2000 to 2003 I led innovation groups in industry, at venture and technology firms. Then I spent fifteen years at Bangor University in Wales, where I became Professor of Innovation and Consumer Psychology and helped build programs in consumer psychology and design. Along the way I consulted for companies including Unilever, Mars, Cadbury, and Aldi.

Glider Innovations, LLC is my own firm, and it is how I build Custom Gliders and run workshops for clients.

I have also made art for most of my working life, mostly light and animation for music and theater. And I care a great deal about designing for the people most designs leave out, which is where Persona Multiplication came from.

I am also a Professor of the Practice at Tufts University, where I teach and do research in human factors, innovation, and transversal design.

My Tufts title is given for identification. Glider Innovations is independent of Tufts University, and its work is not the opinion of, and is not sponsored or endorsed by, Tufts.

PhD and MA, Harvard University, in perception and cognition.
BA cum laude, University of California, San Diego, with honors in psychology and philosophy.

UK National Teaching Fellow, 2014.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, 2016.

Self-Synchronizing Animations, US 6,163,323, 2000.
A system and method for space weather prediction, with D. S. Intriligator, 2001.

More than fifty papers in perception, neuroscience, human factors, consumer psychology, and space physics. Selected writing

Glider Innovations, LLC, a Massachusetts company. Write to james@gliderinnovations.com.