Product Designer
    Thoughtful Design for a Complex World 
  
  Projects
		
		
		
			
			
					 
					City of Big Data Visualizations
					
					 
				 
				
					 
 
					Product Design
					
					  
				 
				
				
					 
					Secret Shelf Sensor Bananza
					
					 
				 
				
					 
					Exploring Screen Size
					
					 
				 
				
				
					 
 
					Prototyping Interactions with Hardware and Software
					
					  
				 
				
					 
					Exploring Kinect and openFrameworks
					
					 
				 
				
				
			 
			
		 
		
User Experience
		
			
			
				
					 
					Case Study
Click! For a breakdown of one of my larger projects
					
				 
				
				
					 
					Ideation, Distillation, Execution
					I prefer the deep end, flailing around in unfamiliar data and eventually surfacing with new ideas to MAKE and test.
					
				 
				
					 
					Ideation
My creations start with sketching, sketching, sketching...
					
					
				 
				
					 
					Storyboards
					And eventually a story unfolds
					
				 
				
					 
					Wireframing
					And then actual screens and interactions need to be distilled
					
				 
				
					 
					Wireframes
					Sometimes they're simple, sometimes complex
					
				 
				
					 
					User Research
We validate our creations by understanding our users' motivations, sometimes it requires inventiveness...
				 
				
				
					 
					GoPro for Ethnography
					I designed a GoPro mount for us to wear during our field sessions. 3D printed goodness.
				 
					
					 
					Findings Presentation
Distilling video and transcripts to insights takes time, but the pay-offs are great.
				 
				
					 
					Pitching the Intel Tablet Wall
				 
					
					 
					The final Intel Wall
					 
				 
				
					 
					Sketching and wiring a Taxi App
				 
				
					 
					Executing on those sketches
				 
				
					 
					Sketches for a secret Shelf
				 
				
					 
					The Storyboards and final product
				 
				
					 
					from excel to idea
				 
				
					 
					and finally an app
				 	
				
					 
					did i mention i like data?
				 	
					
			 
			
		 
Prototyping
		
			
			
				
					 
					Claude/Figma AI Derivative App
					 
				 
				
					 
					Collection of AI coded projects
					 
				 
				
					 
					v0/ChatGPT/Figma Web3 AI App
					 
				 
				
					 
					The final prototype
					 
				 
				
					 
					Multi-device Surgery Dashboard
					 
				 
									
				
					 
					WebGL plus HTML layer
				 	
				
				
					 
					Prototyping In 3D
We needed to visualize data in 3D for the City of Big Data project, so I prototyped these in Cinema4D
				 	
				
			
				
					 
					Prototyping for ContreJour
					
				 				
				
					 
					Prototyping with Box2D
Click it and check it
				 	
				
				
					 
					An ambitious hardware and software prototype
					I wanted to build an HTML5 video game with a real-world controler, so I made a virtual thumbwrestling game.
					
				 
				
					 
					Hulk Hands plus Arduino hardware and embedded sensors, all mapped to traditional thumb-moves
					
				 
				
					 
					A friendly battle
				 
		 
	 
	Social Design
		
			
			
				
					 
					Design House
Design House matches designers with local manufacturers that have latent production capabilities.
				 
				
				 
					OpenIdeo
OpenIdeo is a fantastic forum for designers to give back
				 	
				
					 
					Sketches for a couple winning concepts
				 
				
					 
					Amnesty winning concept
				 
				
		 
	 
Diversions
		
			
			
				
					 
					Laser Navigation
				 
								
					 
					Hardware plus Software
				 
								
					 
					Peoples Garment Company
				 
								
					 
					I design and print vintage sports apparel
				 
								
					 
					All I wanted was a skinny wallet
				 
								
					 
					It blew up into a business
				 
								
					 
					that needed a folding machine
				 
								
					 
					these are closeups