Sproutling
A wearable baby monitor that turned heart rate, movement and nursery conditions into simple, reassuring insight for anxious new parents. Acquired by Mattel and launched under Fisher-Price.
Design Manager · New Deal Design
New Deal Design · Worrell · Independent
Hardware Development: Bringing new technology to market through the craft of industrial design.
Over my career, I’ve brought new products to market across consumer tech, IoT and medical devices. Most began with emerging technology and no precedent for how it should look or work, so the job was distilling it into something people could understand at a glance. Research informs the work without deciding it, because design should reach past what people can already imagine.
I particularly love the front end of making things: positioning a product, generating concepts and consolidating ideas from across the team into a strong direction. I design products from the inside out, with component layout, form and interface resolved together. Then I collaborate with teams to carry that direction through mockups and prototypes evaluated in context, refining it through CMF and the production details within real engineering and manufacturing constraints. And the work shipped: products people love, numerous design awards, and acquisitions by companies like Samsung, Mattel and Google.
Beep
A dial that brought wireless streaming to the speakers people already owned, with a tactile control and lights that made it as easy to use by hand as from the app.
Design Manager · New Deal Design
Structure Sensor
A clip-on sensor that turned an iPad into a 3D scanner, packing complex infrared hardware into a compact attachment that replaced bulky dedicated equipment.
Design Manager · New Deal Design