Awards, Articles, and Appearances

🏆 Awards

  • 2025 iF Design Award - watsonx Orchestrate

  • 2025 iF Design Award - IBM Cloud

  • 2024 iF Design Award - IBM Cloud

  • 2024 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award

  • 2023 Red Dot Award - IBM Cloud

✍🏼 Articles

Illustration of a polar bear on a blue circle background, labeled "UX Collective Editor's Pick."
IBM Design graphic with icons on Medium featuring a bicycle, person, infinity symbol, chat bubbles, squares, and a stylized bee, in a purple and green color scheme.

🎙️ Appearances

The Optimal Path podcast logo by Maze on blue background.

Listen to my discussion with Ash Oliver about what I see as the unsung hero of UXR—secondary research.

AI Agents and watsonx Orchestrate

I was invited by PM and Design leadership to speak to a group of external users, clients, and community members about AI Agents and how agentic AI fits into the future of watsonx Orchestrate.

(Note: second part redacted due to confidentiality)

“Hi Nick. I'm impressed by the quality of your PowerPoint presentation, which gives one of the best overviews of the AI agent meaning/concept and how IBM wxO will fit into this paradigm.

It is not only informative but also very aesthetically pleasing.”

-IBM Business Partner and User

All while watching a toddler, as you can tell in this video by the abrupt “give me one second” pauses lol 😅