CURRENT post

• Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (User Experience Design) at Kingston University London, UK
  • What does a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Dr Makayla Lewis do? in New Scientist Jobs, 2023.

VOLUNTARY POST

• Design Associate at Design Council, UK

PAST posts

• Lecturer in Computer Science (User Experience Design) at Kingston University London, UK
• Voluntary Post Academic/Student Liaison Officer at the UK Chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA)
• Hourly Paid Lecturer in User Experience Design at Kingston University London, UK
• Lecturer in Technology Innovation at Birmingham City University, Centre for Digital Transformation, UK
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow on artificial intelligence futures in next-generation professional services project at the University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martin’s, UK
• Research Fellow on Smart Money: Precision Data Management for Distributed Ledger enabled Central Bank issued Digital Currencies project at Brunel University London, UK
• Senior Research Associate: Research into Cyber Security Body of Knowledge at Security Lancaster (InfoLab21) Research Centre and School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK
• Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on Cyber Security Cartographies (CySeCa) project (Art and Design) in Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
• Research Assistant in Usability. Project: Smart Research Framework (SRF): Cloud-based Collaborative Notebook system, University of Southampton, UK

Education

• Fellowship of the Advance HE (FHEA). 2022. Kingston University London
• Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction. 2012. Cerebral palsy, online social networks, and change. City University London http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/3011/
• MSc by Research and Dissertation. 2008. The evaluation of different online design technologies that demonstrate within-website or web application advertising: the case study of an academic integrity quiz. Kingston University London http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20764/
• First, 1.0, BSc Hons. 2006. Computer Information Systems Design (Multimedia Information Systems. Kingston University London

Academic PAPERS, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND JOURNALS

• Coming soon – Makayla Lewis, Denise Lengyel, Miriam Sturdee, Mauro Toselli, John Miers, Violet Owen, Josh Urban Davis, Swen Gaudl, Lanxi Xiao, Anna Troisi, Ernesto Priego, Raksanda Mehnaz Huq, Kim Snooks, Laia Turmo Vidal, Eli Blevis, Nicola Privato, Patricia Piedade, Caroline Claisse, Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Ana Henriques, Beatriz Severes, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Ar Grek, Gareth McMurchy, RAY LC, Sara Nabil, Jacinta Jardine, Robert Collins, Andrey V. Vlasov, Yana Knight, Michele Cremaschi, Silvia Carderelli-Gronau, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, and Jean-Philippe Rivière. 2024. Travelling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636266
• Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Mafalda Gamboa, and Denise Lengyel. 2023. Doodle Away: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Doodling as a Strategy for Self-Control Strength in Online Spaces. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (AltCHI), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3582747
• Honorable Mention Award – Makayla Lewis, Mauro Toselli, Ruth M Baker, Julia Rédei, Claire Elisabeth Ohlenschlager. 2022. Portraying What’s in Front of You: Virtual Tours and Online Whiteboards to Facilitate Art Practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527927.3531455
• Miriam Sturdee, Makayla Lewis, and John Miers. 2022. Do Humans Dream of Digital Devices? Subconscious User Experiences and Narratives. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527927.3531449 
• Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, John Miers, Josh Urban Davis, and Thuong Hoang. 2022. Exploring AltNarrative in HCI Imagery and Comics. AltChi Paper to 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 164. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3516394 and Presentation Video
• Makayla Lewis and Sturdee, Miriam. 2022. Curricula Design & Pedagogy for Sketching within HCI & UX Education. Frontiers in Computer Science: 35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2022.826445 
  • Chapter in Frontiers eBook: Teaching and Learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): Current and Emerging Practices.
• Best Pictorial Award – Miriam Sturdee, Makayla Lewis, Angelika Strohmayer, Katta Spiel, Nantia Koulidou, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, and Josh Urban Davis. 2021. A Plurality of Practices: Artistic Narratives in HCI Research. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 35, 1. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3450741.3466771
• Jensen, R., Coles-Kemp, L., Wendt, N., and Makayla Lewis. 2020. Liminalities: Understanding Isolated Communities on the Edge. In Proceedings of the CHI’20 conference, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3313831.3376137
• Lewis, M.,  Perry, M. 2019. Follow the Money: Managing Personal Finance Digitally. In Proceedings of the CHI’19 conference, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3300620
• Sturdee, M., Lewis, M., Marquardt, N., 2018. Feeling SketCHI?: the lasting appeal of the drawn image in HCI.  Interactions 25.6 (2018): 64-69. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3274562
• Rashid, A., Danezis, G., Chivers, H., Lupu, E.,  Martin, A.,  Lewis, M., and Peersman, C. 2018. Scoping the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge. IEEE Security & Privacy 16.3 (2018): 96-102. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8395134/
• Coles-Kemp, L., Zugenmaier, A., and Lewis. M., 2014. Watching You Watching Me: The Art of Playing the Panopticon. Digital Enlightenment Yearbook 2014. pp. 147 – 162 http://ebooks.iospress.nl/publication/38139
• Lewis. M, Coles-Kemp, L., 2014. A Tactile Visual Library To Support User Experience Storytelling. NordDesign2014 https://www.designsociety.org/publication/36283/A+Tactile+Visual+Library+To+Support+User+Experience+Storytelling
• Lewis. M, Coles-Kemp, L., 2014. Are You Feeling It? The Use Of Comic Strips To Encourage Empathy in Design. Extended Abstract for Workshop on Enabling Empathy in Health and Care: Design Methods and Challenges at CHI’14 Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada https://www.riscs.org.uk/are-you-feeling-it-the-use-of-comic-strips-to-encourage-empathy-in-designlewis-m-coles-kemp-l/
• Lewis. M, Coles-Kemp, L., 2014. Who Says Personas Can’t Dance? The Use Of Comic Strips To Design Information Security Personas. Extended Abstract at CHI’14 Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada  https://www.riscs.org.uk/who-says-personas-cant-dance-the-use-of-comic-strips-to-design-information-security-personaslewis-m-coles-kemp-l/
• Lewis. M, G. Buchanan, S.Wilson., 2012. A five-stage process for online social network change. Proceedings in ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’12), Newcastle, UK.
• Lewis. M., 2010. Cerebral palsy and online social networks. The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Orlando, USA  http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1878852
• Colbert. M, Lewis. M, Chattratichart. J, Edwards. N., 2008. Persuading users to perform follow-on tasks – an initial case study. ECCE 2008 Annual Conference of European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics, Madeira, Portugal. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1473056

Academic BOOK publications

• Makayla Lewis and Miriam Sturdee. 2024. Sketching in Human-Computer Interaction – A Practical Guide to Sketching Theory and Application. Springer UK. Preorder Now.

• Lucy Kimbell, Ezri Carlebach, Hilary Smyth-Allen, Cristian Gherhes, Makayla Lewis, and Tim Vorley. 2021. AI Readiness: A collaborative design toolkit for professional service firms. Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Practice Management International LLP, Little Berkhamsted. https://www.nextgenpsf.co.uk/ngs-toolkit

BOOK EDITOR publications

• Sturdee, Miriam; Lewis, Makayla; Gamboa, Mafalda; Hoang, Thuong; Miers, John; Šmorgun, Ilja; et al. (2023). The State of the (CHI)ART. figshare. Book. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23921814.v1

Academic workshop position papers, PICTORIALS, and POSTERS

• Makayla Lewis. 2023. AIxArtist: A First-Person Tale of Interacting with Artificial Intelligence to Escape Creative Block. In the 1st International Workshop on Explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts), ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C) 2023. Online, 6 pages. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11424
• Makayla Lewis. 2023. Exploration of Inclusive Design in Design Thinking Education using Autophotography and a Design Sprint in proceedings for Kingston University London Festival of Learning. London, UK
• Makayla Lewis. 2022. Mozilla Hubs vs Gather Town to showcase in-class Design Thinking projects in proceedings for Kingston University London Festival of Learning. London, UK
• Makayla Lewis. 2022. Doodling and Drawing to Support Self-Control Strength at Online Conferences – First-Person Research from CHI’ 2022. In Venetian Drawing Conversations A speculative drawing workshop at Creativity and Cognition (C&C ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://drawing-conversations-2022.com/Participants
• Makayla Lewis. 2022. UX-Design Tools Mindfulness: ‘One-Stop Shop’ for Learning and Practice” in Proceedings of the ICHI ’22 Workshop InContext: Futuring User-Experience Design Tools. April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. https://hcibook.net/incontext/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/04/UX-Design-Tools-Mindfulness-One-Stop-Shop-for-Learning-and-Practice-1.pdf 
• Makayla Lewis. 2022. Miro: An Online Collaborative Whiteboard to Support Design Thinking and Portfolios in proceedings for Kingston University London Festival of Learning. London, UK
• Makayla Lewis. 2021. Mozilla Spoke and Hubs to showcase student teamwork: A case study of Kingston University London MSc user experience design student in-class collaborative projects in proceedings for Kingston University London Festival of Learning. London, UK
• Makayla Lewis,  Perry, M., and Louvieris, P., 2018. Designing Smart Money on a Digital Ledger: Central Bank issued Digital Currencies. In Proceedings of the HCI for Blockchain: A CHI 2018 workshop on Studying, Critiquing, Designing and Envisioning Distributed Ledger Technologies workshop at CHI’18, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada https://www.hciforblockchain.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2018/04/Lewis.pdf
• First Prize Trespass Visualisation Award. 2015. Cyberstalking: It’s about control, not only privacy! Border Sessions The Hague. http://www.trespass-project.eu/node/230 winning entry can be viewed: https://twitter.com/trespassproject/status/665136142480769024
• Lewis. M, Coles-Kemp, L. (2014) I’ve Got Something To Say: The Use Of Animation To Create A Meta-Story About Professional Identity. Extended Abstract for Workshop StoryStorm: A Collaborative Exchange of Methods for Storytelling at DIS’14 Designing Interactive Systems, Vancouver, Canada https://www.riscs.org.uk/ive-got-something-to-say-the-use-of-animation-to-create-a-meta-story-about-professional-identitylewis-m-coles-kemp-l/
• Lewis. M, Coles-Kemp, L. Siganto, J., 2014. Picture This: Tools To Help Community Storytelling. Extended Abstract for Workshop Tactile User Experience Evaluation Methods Extended Abstract at CHI’14 Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada https://www.riscs.org.uk/picture-this-tools-to-help-community-storytellinglewis-m-coles-kemp-l-siganto-j/

Academic workshops, courses, PANELS, and special interest groups PAPERS

• Coming soon – Miriam Sturdee and Makayla Lewis. 2024. To Sketching, And Beyond! A Course of Discovery with Pen and Paper. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages
• Coming soon – Denise Lengyel, Jenny Liddle, Kirsikka Kaipainen, Michael Heron, Miriam Sturdee, and Makayla Lewis. 2024. Talking ‘bout Your Generation: Lessons Learned from Exploring Tabletop Role-Playing and Visual Arts-based Methods to Promote Reflection on the Diversity of ‘Older Adults’ in HCI. British Society of Gerontology 53rd Annual Conference. Newcastle, UK.
• Coming soon – Nick Bryan-Kinns, Corey Ford, Shuoyang Zheng, Helen Kennedy, Alan Chamberlain, Makayla Lewis, Drew Hemment, Zijin Li, Qiong Wu, Lanxi Xiao, Gus Xia, Jeba Rezwana, Michael Clemens and Gabriel Vigliensoni. 2024. 2nd International Workshop on Explainable AI for the Arts #XAIxArts at ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference, Chicago, USA. 5 Pages.
• Denise Lengyel; Kirsikka Kaipainen; Miriam Sturdee; Michael Heron; Makayla Lewis; Jennifer Liddle. 2023. Hands-on workshop on tabletop role-playing for inclusive design: imagining sustainable futures for ‘older adults’. Academic Mindtrek 2023 conference.
• Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Thuong Hoang, Mafalda Gamboa, and Pranjal Jain. 2023. SketCHI 5.0 Diversity & Accessibility at the core of Sketching in HCI. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’23 Extended Abstracts), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583182
• Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Josh Urban Davis, Mafalda Gamboa, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Claire Elisabeth Ohlenschlager, William Gaver, Eli Blevis, and Lian Loke. 2023. Is it Art, is it HCI? Exploring the tensions between practice and research. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’23 Extended Abstracts), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3583744
• Makayla Lewis and Miriam Sturdee. 2023. The Joy of Sketch: A Hands-on Introductory Course on Sketching in HCI and UX within Research, Practice, and Education. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’23 Extended Abstracts), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3574187
• Makayla Lewis, Miriam Sturdee, Thuong Hoang, Sarah Fdili alaoui, Angelika Strohmayer, and Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa. 2023. Futuring (CHI)Art: Building a Collective Common Future. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI ’23 Extended Abstracts), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573791
• Makayla Lewis and Sturdee, M. 2022. Take a line for a walk! A Hands-on Introductory Course on Sketching in HCI. Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 164, 1–4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3503747
• Miriam Sturdee, Makayla Lewis, Mafalda Gamboa, Thuong Hoang, John Miers, Ilja Šmorgun, Pranjal Jain, Angelika Strohmayer, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and Christina R Wodtke. 2022. The State of the (CHI)Art – Workshop. Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 164, 1–4. Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3503722 Website: https://stateofchiart.wordpress.com/
• Makayla Lewis and Sturdee, M. 2021. Sketching in HCI. HCI International 2020 conference 2021. In Proceedings of the HCII’21 Extended Abstracts
• Miriam Sturdee, Makayla Lewis, Katta Spiel, Ernesto Priego, Marina Fernández Camporro, and Thuong Hoang. 2021. SketCHI 4.0: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Remote Sketching in HCI. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 164, 1–4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411763.3450401
• Makayla Lewis and Miriam Sturdee. 2021. Let’s Sketch! A Hands-on Introductory Course on Sketching in HCI. Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 145, 1–4. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411763.3445001
• Cat Drew, Phillippa Rose, and Makayla Lewis. 2020. ‘Design, AI and the changing nature of services’ masterclass. Service Design Days 2020, virtual.
• Makayla Lewis and Sturdee, M. 2020. A Hands-on Introductory Course on Sketching in HCI: Research Practice and Publication in HCI. NordiCHI 2020
• Makayla Lewis and Sturdee, M. 2020. Sketching in HCI. HCI International 2020 conference. July 19–24, 2020, Denmark. http://2020.hci.international/t07
• Koch, J., Mackay, W., Makayla Lewis, Pearson, J., Lucero, A., Robinson, S., and Sturdee, M. 2020. Where Art Meets Technology: Integrating Tangible and Intelligent Tools in Creative Processes. In Proceedings of the CHI’20 Extended Abstracts, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3375172
• Sturdee, M., Makayla Lewis, Méndez, G., Phoa, J., Hoang, T., and Carpendale, S.  SketCHI 3.0: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Sketching Education in HCI. In Proceedings of the CHI’20 Extended Abstracts, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3381059
• Makayla Lewis and Sturdee, M. 2020. So You Think You Can’t Draw? A Hands-on Introductory Course on Sketching in HCI Techniques. In Proceedings of the CHI’20 Extended Abstracts, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3375046
• Sturdee, M., and Makayla Lewis. 2020. Sketching in HCI: Research Practice & Publication (Advanced). In Proceedings of the CHI’20 Extended Abstracts, April 25–30, 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3375047
• Lewis, M.,  Sturdee, M., Marquardt, N., Walny, J., Foster, J., Hoang. T., and Carpendale., S. 2019. SketCHI 2.0: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Sketching in HCI. In Proceedings of the CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3311753
• Lewis, M.,  Sturdee, M., Marquardt, N., 2019. Sketching in HCI: Hands-on Course of Sketching Techniques. In Proceedings of the CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3290607.3298805
• Lewis, M.,  Sturdee, M., Marquardt, N., 2018. Applied Sketching in HCI: Hands-on Course of Sketching Techniques. In Proceedings of the CHI’18 Extended Abstracts, May 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3170427.3170649
• Lewis, M.,  Sturdee, Marquardt, N., and Hoang, T., 2018. SketCHI: Hands-On Special Interest Group on Sketching in HCI. In Proceedings of the CHI’18 Extended Abstracts, April 21–26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3170427.3185366
• Lewis, M.,  Sturdee, M. Alexander, J, Dijk, J.V., Kirkegaard Rasmussen, M., and Hoang, T. 2017. SketchingDIS: Hand-drawn Sketching in HCI. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’17), June 10-14, 2017, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ACM https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3064857.3064863
• Lewis, M.,  Sturdee, M. 2016. Using sketching to emphasize and elaborate on HCI research. In Proceedings of the NordiCHI’16 is the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. https://sketchinghci.wordpress.com/.
• Lewis. M. 2016. Doodling and comics as an innovative approach to visualizing the security risks of the internet of things. TresSPASS Summer School 2016, Egham, UK

RESEARCH FUNDING

• Makayla Lewis (Kingston University) and Miriam Sturdee (St Andrews University). 2023. Creativity in Remote and Hybrid STEM Workplaces. Kingston University WISH Funding 2023.
• Makayla Lewis (Kingston University). 2022. Digital Pound Kingston: Speculative Design Art to Explore Future Scenarios in 2033. Participatory Research Funding 2023.
• Makayla Lewis (Kingston University). 2022. Hearing All Voices: A Preliminary Investigation of Artificial Intelligence Futures for People with Cerebral Palsy using Design Thinking. Kingston University First Grant.
• Miriam Sturdee (Lancaster University) and Makayla Lewis (Kingston University London). 2022. Re-visualizing CyBOK: next phase imagery. Funding was awarded for small projects to develop further resources around CyBOK v1.1. Cyber Security Body of Knowledge Funding for Small Projects.
• Makayla Lewis (Kingston University). 2021. Inclusive Teaching and Learning in Design Thinking Education. Kingston University Festival for Learning Funding for Small Projects.

Interviews and blogs

• What does a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Dr Makayla Lewis do? in New Scientist Jobs, 2023.
• Sturdee, M., Lewis, M., Marquardt, N., 2018. SketchBlog #1: the rise and rise of the sketchnote. Interactions 25.6 (2018): 6-8. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3281661 
• Adobe Blog. 2018. Makayla Lewis on The Power of Sketchnoting in UX Design https://xd.adobe.com/ideas/perspectives/interviews/makayla-lewis-power-sketchnoting-ux-design/
• UX Bristol. 2016. Visual note-taking, short interview.

Industry tutorials and workshops

• UXPA-UK, Online (23 September). 2021. Sketching UX: hands-on workshop with Miriam Sturdee Ernesto Priego and Makayla Lewis.
• Design Exchange, Nottingham England (13 August). 2019. Sketching and Sketchnotes 101
• Nationwide Building Society (Mobile & Digital Experience). 2019. Sketching and Sketchnotes 101.
• Agile in the city: London (3-5 April). 2019. Enriching agile sketches using established visual note-taking techniques
• QuantumBlack. 2018. Sketching and Sketchnotes 101.
• UX Cambridge. 2018. Sketchnotes in UX Design
• POKE. 2018. Sketching and Sketchnotes 101
• UX in the city: Manchester. 2018. Sketchnoting UX
• AfroTech Fest. 2018. Sketchnotes 101
• UX Oxford. 2017. Sketchnotes 101
• UX Scotland. 2017. Sketchnotes 101: Sketchnoter’s are the better thinkers.
• UX In The City: Oxford. 2017. “Sketchnoters are the better thinkers workshop
• UX Bristol. 2016. Visual note-taking
• UX Camp Leeds. 2016. Sketchnoting: to support free and open exchange of complex thoughts, content and user experiences workshop http://2016.nuxcamp.uk/
• Webcredible Sketchnote Skillswap #2. 2016. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sketchnote-skillswap-tickets-9629436905?aff=eioscfrmshretwtr&ref=eioscfrmshretwtr
• User-Centred Design Conference. 2015. Sketching to Support Free and Open Exchange of Complex Thoughts, Content and User Experiences. http://2015.ucduk.org/
• 4th International Visual Methods Conference (IVM ’15). 2015. Seeing What You See: Collecting and Analysing Participatory Design Data.
• Webcredibe. 2015. Sketchnote Skillswap #1 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sketchnote-skillswap-tickets-16202289484?ref=ebtnebregn
• Technical Communication UK 2014 Conference. 2014. Listen, look, imagine, doodle: visual note-taking to support free and open exchange of complex thoughts, opinions, and content.

Event organizer:

• Ongoing: Chair, ACM SIGCHI Chapter for Arts in Human-Computer Interaction
• Co-Workshop Chair, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2022 https://chi2022.acm.org/
• Ongoing: Founder and organizer Sketchnote Hangout, a monthly online event covering all things visual thinking and sketchnotes
• Ongoing: Founder and organizer SketchnoteLDN, monthly in-person event covering all things visual thinking and sketchnotes
• 2010 to 2011: Founder and organizer: Web Accessibility London (a11yLDN)

Freelance sketch artist and illustrator:

I have been a sketch artist (incl. sketchnotes, graphic recording, and graphic facilitation) for multiple organizations, agencies, conferences, and events since 2014, some of this cannot be published, however, the following can be identified:

• Illustration. 2020. Chartered Society of Physiotherapy South West Regional Network, UK
• Conference Program Sketch Artist. 2019. Agile Scotland. Edinburgh, UK.
• Sketch Artist. 2019. CHI 2019 Workshop on Mid-Air Haptics Interfaces for Interactive Digital Signage and Kiosks. Glasgow, UK.
• Illustration. 2018. Research Methods, Jaguar Cars via Design, Brunel University London
• Sketch Artist. 2018. Justis Legal Design Sprint, City University London
• Sketch Artist. 2018. The Future of Computing & Food, Satellite Event of ACM-FCA International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces. Grosseto, Italy
• Sketch Artist. 2018. ACM CHI workshop on MidAir Haptics for Control Interfaces. Montreal Canada
• Sketch Artist. 2018. LiveNation. UK, London
• Sketch Artist. 2018. Cyber Essentials. UK, London
• Illustration. 2018. The Creative Planner Magazine (Spring Issue) Self Care Challenge Adult Colouring Page https://tcpmag.wordpress.com
• Sketch artist and Facilitator. 2017. Natural History Museum October Lates.
• Sketch Artist. 2017. C’M’S’ Tax and Law. UK, London
• Sketch Artist. 2017.  ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces conference. UK, Brighton.
• Sketch artist. 2017. UNDERstanding West African culture to pRevent cybercrimEs workshop, WMG University of Warwick https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/csc/research/underware_project/workshop/presentations/‬
• Heath, C., Coles-Kemp, L., Hall, P., Lane, G., Sturdee, M and Lewis, M (2016)
  TresSPASS Toolkit. Royal Holloway, University of London Publications.
• Sketch Artist. 2016.  ACM CHI workshop on MidAir Haptics. San Jose, USA
• Sketch Artist. 2017. Harvard Publishings. UK, London
• Comic Illustration. 2015. First Prize Trespass Visualisation Award. 2015. Cyberstalking: It’s about control, not only privacy! Border Sessions The Hague
• Illustration. 2015. Blue Star Colouring’s Holiday Parade: A Christmas Adult Colouring Book
• Illustration. 2014. Mike Rohde’s  The Sketchnote Workbook: Advanced Techniques for Taking Visual Notes You Can Use Anywhere
• Illustration. 2014. Scott Torrance’s 143 Visuals to Inspire You to Take Action

Additionally, I have a co-sketch artist for the following on-going projects:

• Founder, organiser, and co-sketch artist. 2017. SketchnoteHangout.com Visual Dictionary (2 issues).
• Co-founder, co-organiser, and co-sketch artist. 2016 – 2018. 365 Icon and sketchnote challenge printables www.gumroad.com/snchallenge

Other talks and presentations:

• Kingston University London Festival of Learning. 2023. Let’s Sketchnote: A powerful tool for enhancing student learning and engagement in the classroom
• ACM SIGCHI Chapter for India. 2022. Sketching in HCI.
• Kingston University London Festival of Learning. 2022. Curricula Design & Pedagogy for Sketching within #HCI & #UX Education.
• Design Council Black Creatives. 2021. Participatory Design: We Are Not Our Users, Online Event.
• Lernos Sketchnoting Guide (English Version) Release Party. 2020. the importance of building a visual community, Germany, Online
• International Sketchnote Camp. 2018. Letter to my 2012 self, Lisbon Portugal
• Trespass Visualisation Award (First Prize) “Cyberstalking: it’s about control, not only privacy!” at Border Sessions The Hague, 2015 http://www.trespass-project.eu/node/230 winning entry can be viewed: https://twitter.com/trespassproject/status/665136142480769024
• The 27th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN’12), San Diego, USA. Authors: M. Lewis “aOSN-cp model to assist social media change”
• Technical Communication UK 2012 Conference (TCUK’12), Newcastle, UK “A five-stage process for social media change”
• E-Access’12 Technology for All Conference, London, UK Closing plenary “Cloud, mobile and consumerisation: a problem explodes”
• The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’12), Newcastle, UK “A five-stage process for online social network change”
• HCID’12 “The unforeseen effects of changing your website on people with disabilities”- https://www.eventbrite.com/event/2882809561?nomo=1
• CSUN’12 – “aOSN-cp model to assist social media change”
• Web Accessibility Meetup – “Developing a 5-stage process for online social network change, focus on users with cerebral palsy” – http://a11yldnmeetup2.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C
• London Web Standards – “Mapping #NewTwitter change approach”
• E-Access’11 Conference – Technology for All – “The unforeseen effects of changing your website on people with disabilities”
• Accessibility Hack Days – “How people with cerebral palsy use online social networks”
• London Lightning UX – “Enhancing the general inductive approach using personas”
• City University London (Centre for HCI Design) Open Day – “The affects of changing social networks on people with disabilities”
• The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Orlando, USA.Author: M Lewis “cerebral palsy and online social networks” poster session – https://makaylalewis.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/experiencing-online-social-networks-with-cerebralpalsy-at-assets10/
• Web Accessibility London 2010 – a11yLDN – “online communication and users with motor impairments” – http://a11yldn.org.uk/2010/09/presentation-and-workshop-blurbs.html
• E-Access’10 Conference – Technology for All – Chair of round table session “Are online social networks accessible to users with motor disabilities?”. URL: Version: http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=468
• Research² PhD Forum – Research Methods in Information Science, Loughborough University – co-workshop presenter “approaches to dealing with data overload”
• City University London Centre for HCI Design MPhil/PhD transfer seminar “Technology use in the CP community”
• Women in Computing Research 2010 London Hopper Colloquium “Cerebral palsy and online social networks”
• City University London ‘inclusive design’ guest lecture “Cerebral palsy and online social networks”
• University of Sussex 11^th Human-Centred Technology Postgraduate Workshop “The analysis of online social network services to include users with cerebral palsy”
• British Computing Society 1^st Annual Doctoral Consortium on Computer Science and Informatics “The relationship between physically disabled individuals and online social networks”
• City University London Centre for HCI Design Seminar “Computer-mediated communication (non) usage within the cerebral palsy community”
• Kensington and Chelsea Disability Youth Forum “Examination of online social network services to further include users with physical disabilities: cerebral palsy?”
• Oxford Internet Institute Information and Web Science Doctoral Workshop “How can physically disabled on-line communication users, especially those with cerebral palsy, be further included in social network services?”
• Kensington and Chelsea Action Disability Youth Project “The analyses of online social network services to further include users with physical disabilities: cerebral palsy.”
• Accessibility 2.0 –Million Flowers Bloom Conference “Makayla Lewis on Social Networking for people with Cerebral Palsy – Better inclusion for users with Cerebral Palsy in Social Networks, is this necessary?” URL: http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2/2009/09/17/makayla-lewis-on-social-networking-for-people-with-cerebal-palsy/

Achievements and awards:

• Kingston University London, IC Bursary Award for “Inclusive and Representative Design Thinking Curriculum”, 2021
• ACM SIGACCESS, Development Fund “Sketching Futures”, 2020
• Trespass Visualisation Award (First Prize) “Cyberstalking: it’s about control, not only privacy!” at Border Sessions, The Hague, 2015
• Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People (CACDP) in British Sign Language for Level 1 and Level 2 certification
• ACM SIGACCESS Scholarship to attend ASSETS’10 Conference on Computers and Accessibility
• Women in Computing Research London Hopper Colloquium, 2^nd prize for poster session, 2010
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Apollo Awards, runner up prize for volunteer individual award (17 to 25 years), 2009
• London Development Agency Innovation Placement Certificate, 2008
• Kingston University London Faculty Prize for best information systems student, 2006
• London Borough of Camden Good Citizen of the Year Award, 2003
• UK Millennium Volunteers Award 600 Hours, 2003
• UK Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award, 2002