• by Joe Mandese  @mp_joemandese, November 5, 2009

Dale Herigstad may be a digital media guru and design visionary, but he’s â€" surprisingly â€" not a techie. At least that’s what he says, though I have my own suspicions about his technological prowess, he claims that he’s really not a gearhead, and doesn’t know how most of the systems he designs actually works.

His preferred tool for designing futuristic media interfaces, he says, is actually Apple’s Keynote software, which is the Mac equivalent of Microsoft’s PowerPoint, albeit with some niftier animation and graphics capabilities.

“I’ve built entire TV navigation systems in that,” Herigstad confided. “Is it designed for that? No.”