 Wickens was a founding partner of DreamSurface, a mobile application design company best known for the product TimeTuner.He has been a guest speaker on NPR, contributing editor at EYE magazine, teacher at the California Institute of the Arts, and speaker at many symposia, including the RGD Design Thinkers Conference 2008 in Toronto, and the Creative Review Click Conference 2010 in San Francisco.Wickens was awarded in 2016 the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award.