Helen Armstrong views design from across the spectrum as a designer, educator, and researcher. She is an associate professor of graphic design at North Carolina State University. In addition to teaching, she wrote Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009) and Digital Design Theory: Readings from the Field (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) and co-wrote, with Zvezdana Stojmirovic, Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011).