Building What Comes After “Digital”
A note on the future of experiences, and the people shaping them.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what the next generation of digital experiences will actually feel like.
Not the marketing language.
Not the buzzwords.
Not the chase for whatever is trending this quarter.
I mean the real stuff:
the emotional architecture,
the connective threads,
the invisible systems that make a player, a guest, or a kid light up because something just clicked.
For years, the industry has been quietly redefining what “digital” even means. We’re no longer designing screens, we’re designing moments.
Moments that move fluidly between devices, spaces, worlds, and human attention.
Moments that weave together physical presence, narrative, design, motion, voice, and play.
And the people who will build this next chapter aren’t just specialists.
They’re translators.
Bridge-builders.
Creative leaders who can hold the whole ecosystem in their head without losing sight of the human being on the other end.
The funny thing is, without realizing it, this is exactly what my career has been preparing me for.
Feature-film storytelling taught me emotional clarity and timing.
Game development taught me iterative workflows and player-focused design.
Mixed reality taught me how to design for presence, voice, and interaction.
External development taught me global collaboration, scalable pipelines, and the art of making complexity feel simple.
Coaching and teaching taught me how to guide people through change with confidence.
When you put all of that together, you start to see the shape of where things are headed:
Experiences that are cinematic, but interactive.
Technical, but human.
Universal, but deeply personal.
Speed of pop culture, but grounded in emotion.
This is the frontier I’m leaning into. It’s trendy, but it also feels synchronic.
The next generation of digital experiences won’t be about devices or platforms.
It’s about connection. How can we build worlds that respond, adapt, and tell stories in ways that make people feel something real?
I find myself right in the middle of that evolution.
It’s not an accident that very step of my career has softly been molding into the kind of leader who can see the throughline:
pipeline —> performance —> player —> emotional heartbeat
This next chapter isn’t about what I’m leaving behind. It’s about what I’m finally ready to build.
