Mark Rolston

Mark Rolston today is leading a new team at argodesign, a product design firm focused on design, strategy and invention. The Argo was a ship in mythical Greece set upon a very special journey. We think that suits us just fine. As the former Chief Creative Officer of frog design, Mark Rolston was responsible for the creative direction of the company's work for clients. For almost 20 years at frog, he orchestrated teams of strategists, technologists, designers, information architects, analysts, and others to produce groundbreaking work for Fortune 500 clients. Mark Rolston joined frog in 1994 and co-founded the software design group growing it to become the largest part of frog's business and the major force in its growth. Mark has led the transformation of frog into a modern strategic design organization. His leadership has helped add more than 100 million to the business, growing frog into one of the largest and most successful product design firms in the world. Mark was an early pioneer of software user experience, working with clients to leverage emerging technologies and setting the tone for user interface design and mobile platforms. Mark lives and breathes software, the issues of design, craftsmanship, and building useful and enjoyable machines of all types. He demonstrates a deft balance between a passion for the details that matter and big thinking about our world and our future. Mark's client roster has featured many of the world's largest brands, including Disney, Ford, GE, HP, Microsoft and AT&T. He is an internationally recognized expert on software, experience design, emerging computing platforms, and mobile applications, a frequent speaker at conferences (Fortune, eComm, TEDx, Stanford Summit, etc.) and has been widely quoted in the press, including Business Week, Fast Company, The New York Times, Technology Review, PC Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

building things, tinkering, the future of computing

Design is hot. It's great that everyone wants to talk about it. But it also means that truly exceptional design skills are in demand. Meaning is in demand. If anyone can make something then quality becomes the discerning metric. As software eats up the world, intimate, tacit knowledge of how the world works becomes important as design becomes more ephemeral and illusory. We need more craftsman.

building race cars