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Always drawing inspiration through a human-centered perspective, work includes near-term solutions and long-term strategic work across consumer, financial, medical, and mobility domains.
Awards and Recognition
Work and perspective have been featured in WIRED, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, The Atlantic, the IDEA Awards, the Webby Awards, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Various patents have been awarded. Below are some representative projects shaped through direct design, design direction, and client relationship stewardship. Roles related to each project are also listed.
Featured Project
Futureproof Series: Postcards From The Future
Futureproof is a series of provocations illustrating possible futures for technology and culture. Think postcards from the future. Concepting in this body of work represents the visual and storytelling aspects of future vision work created by designbivouac.
Client: designbivouac (self-published)
Role: Concept Lead, Story Lead, Concept Designer, AI Visualization
Featured Project
The Future of Automobility Series
This future vision work explores mobility opportunities set in the not-so-distant future. Comprised of four chapters, the work richly visualizes how we might move people, things, spaces, and together as we enter the age of automobility.
Client: IDEO
Role: Design Director, Concept Lead, Story Lead
Smartphone Concepts
A range of concepts was created for Samsung’s smartphone division. Features included multi-tasking across split screens, managing work and personal content, curved-edge displays, and accessory integration.
Client: Samsung
Role: Interaction Design Director
Online Banking Experience
Research indicates that customers manage finances across buckets of funds. The Chase modular interface concept helped users control funds intuitively while making it easy to see progress toward achieving goals.
Client: Chase
Role: Interaction Design Director
Fabric Digital Strategy
The Caterpillar digital strategy illustrates the power of knitting together the needs of the company’s internal stakeholders and customers. The project identified ways to apply human-centered design and a customer-first perspective to Caterpillar services.
Client: Caterpillar
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
Suspension Demo
ClearMotion requested support with shaping their active suspension demonstrator. A real-time visualization and control interface were developed to demonstrate a range of suspension modes. Brand expression and mobile touchpoints were also visualized.
Client: Clear Motion
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
Vehicle UI Explorations
This short sprint augmented Mercedes-Benz’s design team, exploring various visual user interface directions. The themes explored included luxury, purpose, restraint, personalization, dynamism, and feeling alive.
Client: Mercedes-Benz
Role: Interaction Design, Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
QUE ProReader E-Reader
The QUE proReader was recognized as one of the ten best products of the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Designed for enterprise users, it features an elegant industrial design and intuitive document management interface.
Client: PlasticLogic
Role: Interaction Design, Interaction Design Director
BLAID Visual Aid Device
Working with Toyota Robotics, user needs were carefully identified. Whether moving through a room or across town, the BLAID device helps users navigate by leveraging a variety of cameras, sensors, a speech interface, and AI.
Client: Toyota Robotics
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
iDrive Interface Redesign
This project applied familiar user interface patterns to refine BMW’s iDrive system controller. The work shaped the current version of the iDrive controller with its physical shortcut buttons and a simplified user interface menu.
Client: BMW
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
E-Commerce Website
This collaboration with SAP and Grainger explored new ways for users to find and purchase items as the company made its extensive product catalog available online. Sales representatives and users could manage collections collaboratively.
Client: SAP
Role: Interaction Design Director
Fleet Driver Safety Device
The industrial design, mechanical engineering, and user experience design were shaped for Nauto’s AI driver and fleet safety device. Over 400 brands around the globe have deployed and benefit from Nauto’s AI driver and fleet safety platform.
Client: Nauto
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
Technology Forecast Project
Looking a decade ahead for Businessweek, this technology forecasting project visualized potential consumer products. Concepts proved prescient, including a personal communication device with fingerprint detection, similar to today’s iPhone.
Client: Businessweek
Role: Interaction Design
Memory Product Website
Samsung’s memory website highlights the benefits of the company’s memory chips. It demonstrates longer battery life, increased reliability, and higher performance levels. Social media characters embody pain points associated with inferior memory chips.
Client: Samsung
Role: Interaction Design Director
Moving Goods Exploration
This project prototyped Mercedes-Benz Vans Future concept vehicles. Through applying design thinking, research, and tangible, experiential prototyping, the Mercedes-Benz Vans group was empowered to establish a new research and prototyping lab in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Client: Mercedes-Benz Vans
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
VOIP Enterprise Phone
The Cisco 7960 VOIP phone was the first major consumer product shipped by Cisco. Favored by many companies and Hollywood alike, the iconic 7960 series was a massive success for Cisco and proved to have quite a stage presence in a wide range of films and television program settings.
Client: Cisco
Role: Interaction Design, Interaction Design Director
Health & Mobility Exhibit
A physical demonstrator, day-in-the-life scenarios, and an immersive virtual reality experience combined as part of a powerful CES exhibit highlighting the benefits of integrating health sensing technologies within Hyundai vehicles to enhance the safety and well-being of drivers and passengers.
Client: Hyundai
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
Capsule Experience
Creating a design concept for Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule involved shaping aspects of future astronaut journeys. Onboarding, orientation, the zero gravity apogee experience, providing reassurance during capsule descent, and the post-journey experience were designed.
Client: Blue Origin
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
Featured Project
Neurosurgical Navigation Station
Orthopedists and neurosurgeons are increasingly looking to technology to provide them with higher precision and accuracy to minimize injury during spine surgery. Recognizing this need, Medtronic Navigation, a division of the world’s leading medical technology company, developed a surgical navigation solution for spine surgery that inspires surgeon and patient confidence, promotes efficiency, and minimizes exposure to harmful radiation.
Client: Medtronic
Role: Interaction Design Director
Featured Project
Vehicle Access Experience
This project explored what the Ferrari brand means to vehicle owners and potential buyers and how to enhance the overall Ferrari ownership experience by designing a new key and vehicle access experience. The project team brought Ferrari closer to its customers by spending time with various Ferrari owners. It visualized customer archetypes that Ferrari could use to build future branded experiences and informed the vehicle access experience for the Ferrari Roma.
Client: Ferrari
Role: Interaction Design Director, Client Relationship Lead
Projects completed at IDEO unless otherwise indicated.