Making something out of nothing.
I know how to make something out of nothing. I see the whole picture and what a thing could become before it exists.
Finding purpose for ideas that don't have one yet.
Solutions and problems are one relationship, not two separate things.
Supporting our collective imagination, and the world we want to live in.
I champion human flourishing and believe in a more interesting, equitable, and functional world; I design for people, communities, and our shared experience.
Build from the ground up.
About — 01
I want to know
everything.
I'm named after
Harriet the Spy
, who said it first and meant it literally. I have
never found a good reason to want less.
I work with the connection and conversation between creativity and technology, and on what that makes possible: experiences that challenge people, hold their attention honestly, and connect them. Whether I'm designing an intuitive solution or an interaction that tells a story, I am asking the same two questions. Where are we now? Where could we be instead?
That curiosity is why my background is so broad, spanning economics, creative computing, and computer science at the University of Chicago.
Data-driven problem solving, technological thinking, design, and economics are different ways of knowing one world. I look forward to collecting more ways of knowing, but in the meantime, I've honed the grit of an economist, the curiosity of a philosopher, the ingenuity of a technologist, and the imagination of an artist.
The degrees — 02
The overlap, not the parts.
Where are we now, and where could we be instead? No single field asks the whole question or has the whole answer.
hover over a field - B.A. creative computing and economics, minor in computer science, University of Chicago, 2025
The premise — 03
Technology is never neutral.
Every tool makes a claim about how people should spend their attention, their time, and their trust. Most make their claim by accident. I would rather make mine deliberately, and be able to explain it and improve upon it as we learn more.
Good design and thoughtful technology do more than make life easier. They open possibilities, spark creativity, and give back the time to spend on what we love (more work, less labour!). To me, human-centered means keeping people at the centre of that argument, not at the end of it.
Quick facts — 04
What I'm into, the way people actually look for it.
type a query, then press enter
harriet fisher
harrietfisher.ca
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
4 results — all of them true
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › political-philosophy
Political philosophy, and who technology is for
Harriet concerns herself with who a thing is built for, who decides, and what it asks of everyone else. The questions predate the software by about two thousand years.
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › hobbies-and-free-time
Hobbies & free time
Harriet enjoys several hobbies in her free time such as animating, watching the movies (she produced an independent feature length film in 2023), playing chess, learning new things on Youtube, hosting dinner parties (she loves to cook), and traveling.
harrietfisher.ca › making › accomplishments
Achievements and accomplishments
Fisher has had 4 internationally exhibited media pieces ranging from VR experiences (Como, 2022) to interactive poetry (Porto, 2019). In 2024, she collaborated with the Decameron Collective on Memory Eternal, which received an honorable mention for the Robert Hoover Prize. Upon graduating, she was awarded the University of Chicago award for excellence in multimedia. She has also placed in several hackathons, Adobe’s UI/UX contest, and Deloitte’s Illuminate Case Study Competition.
harrietfisher.ca › offline
Reading at the park. Long chats with friends, or strangers.
Much of what Harriet knows arrived because someone told her something she hadn't thought to ask about.
related
human-centered design
political economy
materials science
theatre
critical video game studies
architecture and community design
Harriet Fisher
development · design · management · strategy
Based
London, UK
Now
Founding team member - Product, Halcyon Technology
Studied
Creative computing, economics, computer science @ The University of Chicago
Named for
Harriet the Spy
Makes
Hardware, software, design, and the strategy that decides which one
Design, strategy, technology, humanities; I don't switch between them. I use one to solve what the others cannot.
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
4 results — all of them true
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › political-philosophy
Political philosophy, and who technology is for
Harriet concerns herself with who a thing is built for, who decides, and what it asks of everyone else. The questions predate the software by about two thousand years.
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › hobbies-and-free-time
Hobbies & free time
Harriet enjoys several hobbies in her free time such as animating, watching the movies (she produced an independent feature length film in 2023), playing chess, learning new things on Youtube, hosting dinner parties (she loves to cook), and traveling.
harrietfisher.ca › making › accomplishments
Achievements and accomplishments
Fisher has had 4 internationally exhibited media pieces ranging from VR experiences (Como, 2022) to interactive poetry (Porto, 2019). In 2024, she collaborated with the Decameron Collective on Memory Eternal, which received an honorable mention for the Robert Hoover Prize. Upon graduating, she was awarded the University of Chicago award for excellence in multimedia. She has also placed in several hackathons, Adobe’s UI/UX contest, and Deloitte’s Illuminate Case Study Competition.
harrietfisher.ca › offline
Reading at the park. Long chats with friends, or strangers.
Much of what Harriet knows arrived because someone told her something she hadn't thought to ask about.
related
human-centered design
political economy
materials science
theatre
critical video game studies
architecture and community design
Harriet Fisher
development · design · management · strategy
Based
London, UK
Now
Founding team member - Product, Halcyon Technology
Studied
Creative computing, economics, computer science @ The University of Chicago
Named for
Harriet the Spy
Makes
Hardware, software, design, and the strategy that decides which one
Design, strategy, technology, humanities; I don't switch between them. I use one to solve what the others cannot.
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
Currently based in: London
Like Harriet, I want to know everything. More than that, I want to do something with what I know.
“Knowing everything won’t do you a bit of good unless you use it to put beauty in this world.”
Ole Golly
Harriet Fisher
Made with love
Making something out of nothing.
I know how to make something out of nothing. I see the whole picture and what a thing could become before it exists.
Finding purpose for ideas that don't have one yet.
Solutions and problems are one relationship, not two separate things.
Supporting our collective imagination, and the world we want to live in.
I champion human flourishing and believe in a more interesting, equitable, and functional world; I design for people, communities, and our shared experience.
Build from the ground up.
About — 01
I want to know
everything.
I'm named after
Harriet the Spy
, who said it first and meant it literally. I have
never found a good reason to want less.
I work with the connection and conversation between creativity and technology, and on what that makes possible: experiences that challenge people, hold their attention honestly, and connect them. Whether I'm designing an intuitive solution or an interaction that tells a story, I am asking the same two questions. Where are we now? Where could we be instead?
That curiosity is why my background is so broad, spanning economics, creative computing, and computer science at the University of Chicago.
Data-driven problem solving, technological thinking, design, and economics are different ways of knowing one world. I look forward to collecting more ways of knowing, but in the meantime, I've honed the grit of an economist, the curiosity of a philosopher, the ingenuity of a technologist, and the imagination of an artist.
The degrees — 02
The overlap, not the parts.
Where are we now, and where could we be instead? No single field asks the whole question or has the whole answer.
hover over a field - B.A. creative computing and economics, minor in computer science, University of Chicago, 2025
The premise — 03
Technology is never neutral.
Every tool makes a claim about how people should spend their attention, their time, and their trust. Most make their claim by accident. I would rather make mine deliberately, and be able to explain it and improve upon it as we learn more.
Good design and thoughtful technology do more than make life easier. They open possibilities, spark creativity, and give back the time to spend on what we love (more work, less labour!). To me, human-centered means keeping people at the centre of that argument, not at the end of it.
Quick facts — 04
What I'm into, the way people actually look for it.
type a query, then press enter
harriet fisher
harrietfisher.ca
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
4 results — all of them true
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › political-philosophy
Political philosophy, and who technology is for
Harriet concerns herself with who a thing is built for, who decides, and what it asks of everyone else. The questions predate the software by about two thousand years.
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › hobbies-and-free-time
Hobbies & free time
Harriet enjoys several hobbies in her free time such as animating, watching the movies (she produced an independent feature length film in 2023), playing chess, learning new things on Youtube, hosting dinner parties (she loves to cook), and traveling.
harrietfisher.ca › making › accomplishments
Achievements and accomplishments
Fisher has had 4 internationally exhibited media pieces ranging from VR experiences (Como, 2022) to interactive poetry (Porto, 2019). In 2024, she collaborated with the Decameron Collective on Memory Eternal, which received an honorable mention for the Robert Hoover Prize. Upon graduating, she was awarded the University of Chicago award for excellence in multimedia. She has also placed in several hackathons, Adobe’s UI/UX contest, and Deloitte’s Illuminate Case Study Competition.
harrietfisher.ca › offline
Reading at the park. Long chats with friends, or strangers.
Much of what Harriet knows arrived because someone told her something she hadn't thought to ask about.
related
human-centered design
political economy
materials science
theatre
critical video game studies
architecture and community design
Harriet Fisher
development · design · management · strategy
Based
London, UK
Now
Founding team member - Product, Halcyon Technology
Studied
Creative computing, economics, computer science @ The University of Chicago
Named for
Harriet the Spy
Makes
Hardware, software, design, and the strategy that decides which one
Design, strategy, technology, humanities; I don't switch between them. I use one to solve what the others cannot.
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
4 results — all of them true
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › political-philosophy
Political philosophy, and who technology is for
Harriet concerns herself with who a thing is built for, who decides, and what it asks of everyone else. The questions predate the software by about two thousand years.
harrietfisher.ca › notebook › hobbies-and-free-time
Hobbies & free time
Harriet enjoys several hobbies in her free time such as animating, watching the movies (she produced an independent feature length film in 2023), playing chess, learning new things on Youtube, hosting dinner parties (she loves to cook), and traveling.
harrietfisher.ca › making › accomplishments
Achievements and accomplishments
Fisher has had 4 internationally exhibited media pieces ranging from VR experiences (Como, 2022) to interactive poetry (Porto, 2019). In 2024, she collaborated with the Decameron Collective on Memory Eternal, which received an honorable mention for the Robert Hoover Prize. Upon graduating, she was awarded the University of Chicago award for excellence in multimedia. She has also placed in several hackathons, Adobe’s UI/UX contest, and Deloitte’s Illuminate Case Study Competition.
harrietfisher.ca › offline
Reading at the park. Long chats with friends, or strangers.
Much of what Harriet knows arrived because someone told her something she hadn't thought to ask about.
related
human-centered design
political economy
materials science
theatre
critical video game studies
architecture and community design
Harriet Fisher
development · design · management · strategy
Based
London, UK
Now
Founding team member - Product, Halcyon Technology
Studied
Creative computing, economics, computer science @ The University of Chicago
Named for
Harriet the Spy
Makes
Hardware, software, design, and the strategy that decides which one
Design, strategy, technology, humanities; I don't switch between them. I use one to solve what the others cannot.
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
Hint: try searching “about”, “facts”, or “hello”
Like Harriet, I want to know everything. More than that, I want to do something with what I know.
“Knowing everything won’t do you a bit of good unless you use it to put beauty in this world.”
Ole Golly
Harriet Fisher
Made with love
Making something out of nothing.
I know how to make something out of nothing. I see the whole picture and what a thing could become before it exists.
Finding purpose for ideas that don't have one yet.
Solutions and problems are one relationship, not two separate things.
Supporting our collective imagination, and the world we want to live in.
I champion human flourishing and believe in a more interesting, equitable, and functional world; I design for people, communities, and our shared experience.
Build from the ground up.
About — 01
I want to know everything
I'm named after
Harriet the Spy
who said it first and meant it literally. I have never found a good reason to want less.
I work with the connection and conversation between creativity and technology, and on what that makes possible: experiences that challenge people, hold their attention honestly, and connect them. Whether I'm designing an intuitive solution or an interaction that tells a story, I am asking the same two questions. Where are we now? Where could we be instead?
That curiosity is why my background is so broad, spanning economics, creative computing, and computer science at the University of Chicago.
Data-driven problem solving, technological thinking, design, and economics are different ways of knowing one world. I look forward to collecting more ways of knowing, but in the meantime, I've honed the grit of an economist, the curiosity of a philosopher, the ingenuity of a technologist, and the imagination of an artist.
The degrees — 02
The overlap, not the parts.
Where are we now, and where could we be instead? No single field asks the whole question or has the whole answer.
hover over a field - B.A. creative computing and economics, minor in computer science, University of Chicago, 2025
The premise — 03
Technology is never neutral.
Every tool makes a claim about how people should spend their attention, their time, and their trust. Most make their claim by accident. I would rather make mine deliberately, and be able to explain it and improve upon it as we learn more.
Good design and thoughtful technology do more than make life easier. They open possibilities, spark creativity, and give back the time to spend on what we love (more work, less labour!). To me, human-centered means keeping people at the centre of that argument, not at the end of it.
Like Harriet the spy, I want to know everything. More than that, I want to do something with what I know.
“Knowing everything won’t do you a bit of good unless you use it to put beauty in this world.”
Ole Golly
Harriet Fisher
Made with love