John Payne is a principal at Moment, a digital product design firm he co-founded in New York City in 2002. John has, over the course of his twenty-five year career as a design consultant, focused on the intersection of design, culture and technology in both physical and digital products. His current work explores the positive contribution that mobile technologies and experience design can make to healthcare, with a focus on patient empowerment and participation in management of chronic disease.

Educated at Auburn University and Institute of Design at IIT (the New Bauhaus), John has lectured widely and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in design at Parsons and NYU. He is a past co-chair and current advisor to EPIC (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference) and sits on the board of Public Policy Lab, a non-profit service design consultancy dedicated to the more effective delivery of public services to the American people.