Before I focused on software, my work spanned products, visual communications, and interactions. I studied industrial design and worked in communications, but the side projects I made with friends are what moved me from one to the next.
Interactions
Corus
Assisting co-sleeping via mixed reality
Holographic candles that flicker when bedtime is near and burn out once the conversation stops, sitting at a colour halfway between both partners' schedules.
Fall 2016 · Sponsored by Phillips Healthcare
Moment
Supporting conversations via mixed reality
A mixed reality system that listens while two people talk and surfaces the photos their conversation is about, helping aging adults recall memories together.
Spring 2017 · research, interface design, video prototyping
Critical Design Sprint
The rules of the cold-reading
A card game that hands designers the techniques fortune tellers use to persuade, then asks them to find where they have already used them.
Fall 2017
Carbon Health Internship
Personalized in-clinic experience
A clinic visit redesigned end to end, from the check-in kiosk to the exam room display that shows patients what the nurse just recorded.
Summer 2017
Products
Spotea
Improving the Turkish tea experience
A tea set for Esse whose body glows the colour of the brewing temperature, readable from across a dark kitchen.
Spring 2012
Yapp!
Solving the laptop overheating with a twist
A plywood laptop stand cut so nothing is left over. The legs are the offcuts, and what remains snaps together into other objects.
Fall 2012
Trail
Providing power everywhere for smartphones
A wireless charging case for Trexta, with a battery jacket and a kickstand that slide on only when they are needed.
Spring 2013 · Sponsored by Trexta TR Leather Co
dingdong
Waking up users with engaging interactions
An alarm clock whose face pops off its base and wags until it is picked up, and putting it back is the only way to silence it.
Fall 2013
