Sebastian Deterding

Visiting Assistant Professor, Designer and researcher - Rochester Institute of Technology

Sebastian Deterding
Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on playful and gameful design. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the RIT Laboratory for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction and Creativity (MAGIC) at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, and affiliated researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany. As an independent designer, he has been working for clients such as the BBC, BMW, Greenpeace, Otto Group, Xing, or Tribal DDB, as well as several startups, and has been invited to speak and keynote at venues like Lift, Interaction, GDC Online, Games Learning Society, Web Directions, Playful, Google, IDEO, and Microsoft Research, and has been been featured on TED. His work on gameful design has been covered by The Guardian, The New Scientist, the Los Angeles Times and EDGE Magazine among others. He is co-editor with Steffen P. Walz of "The Gameful World" (MIT Press, forthcoming). He lives online at codingconduct.cc.