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- Developing interactive products using design, insight, and research
- MA Industrial Product Design
- PMP (Project Management Professional) Cert. #2051480
- Most current projects are listed on projects list
"Portfolio" items include things in which I was a core contributor from concept to launch.
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Nest Accessories for purchase on Google Store
Title: Nest Accessories Store
Roles: Project Manager
Project Type: E-commerce, online store, hardware sales (2018-08-28)
Description: This project enabled Nest (smart home) product owners to place orders for replacement component parts for their products. These items were not available separately before this project. Project required pitch to new projects approval board, as well as buy-in from Finance, Product, Logistics, and Support teams. Provided cost-benefit calculations, led project plan, all weekly meetings, and produced all required cross-functional assets for five products to go-live on the nest.com product store.
Partners: Nest.com store team, Nest supply chain + logistics teams
URL: http://www.nest.com | 3rd-generation-base | nest-cam-power-adapter |
nest-cam-usb-cable | nest-cam-wall-mounting-plate| nest-learning-thermostat-2nd-gen-backplate
John Markoff interviews Scott Forstall on June 20, 2017 at Computer History Museum
Title: iPhone 360 Project
Roles: Project Manager
Project Type: Event series, exhibits, research and publications project (2017)
Description: Event series, exhibits, and publications project investigating the origin and impact of iPhone at its decennial anniversary, including an invite-only reunion of the original iPhone team. Speakers included Tony Fadell (05-10), Scott Forstall, Hugo Fiennes, Nitin Ganatra, Scott Herz (06-20), Cindy Cohn, Jean-Louis Gassée, Judy Wajcman, Anthony Giddens, Steven Levy, Benedict Evans, Bertrand Schmitt (10-18).
Partners: Computer History Museum Exponential Center, Marguerite Gong Hancock, CHM curatorial team, CHM Live production team
URL: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/tag/iphone-360/
Human Computer Interaction and Informal Science Education HCI+ISE 2013
Title: Human Computer Interaction and Informal Science Education (HCI+ISE) 2013
Roles: Curator / co-organizer
Project Type: Professional conference and technology demos (2013)
Description: Conference brought together 60 museum and technology professionals to explore the coming impact of HCI technology in ISE settings.
Partners: Open Exhibits / Ideum / Independent Exhibitions
URL: http://www.openexhibits.org/hci-ise/
Computational materials – Resolution by Zigelbaum + Coelho / Photo: Elizabeth Gwinner
Title: Resolution (art installation)
Roles: Curator / project manager / exhibit design / interaction design / UX
Project Type: Interactive art installation (2012) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: This artwork’s fluid interface allows one to experience computational materials and harkens to the pre-digital images of cathode ray tubes and half-tone printing. Opened as a participating exhibion of Zero1 Biennial 2012.
Partners: Jamie Zigelbaum / Marcelo Coelho / Zero1 Biennial / MacArthur Foundation
URL: http://www.cmarcelo.com/#/resolution
Reactable
Title: Reactable (exhibit at Tech Museum)
Roles: Interaction testing and prototyping / exhibit design team / interaction design / UX
Project Type: Interactive science museum exhibit (2012)
Description: This custom installation of the well-known Reactable table was developed to play instruments from a variety of musical styles.
Partners: Dr. Geoffrey Thomas / Reactable staff / The Tech Museum
URL: https://www.thetech.org/plan-your-visit/exhibits/sv-innovation/
Stanford d.school Design for Science 2012
Title: Stanford d.school – Design for Science (course)
Roles: 2012 Teaching Team
Project Type: Hasso Plattner d.school at Stanford Univ. graduate level design course (2012)
Description: Part of teaching team for science visualization, data visualization, and museum interaction design sprints
Partners: Stamen Design / Dr. Geoffrey Thomas / Dr. Maryanna Rogers / Noah Zimmerman
URL: http://dschool.stanford.edu
https://dschool.stanford.edu/classes/dscience-design-for-science
https://designforscience.tumblr.com/
Resolution signage 2012
Title: Resolution (signage)
Roles: Graphic design
Project Type: Large format museum signage (2012)
Description: Signage graphic design for interactive tangible media art installation
Partners: The Tech Museum fabrication
URL: http://www.thetech.org/plan-your-visit/galleries/sv-innovation
Open Innovation and Open Source: A Guide for Content Developers
Title: Open Innovation and Open Source: A Guide for Content Developers
Roles: Analyst / Author / presenter
Project Type: Paper / grant results report (2012)
Description: This report covers methods for co-creation, collaboration, design, participation, rapid prototyping, and open source development of content.
Partners: Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn. / The Tech Museum / Museums and the Web
URL: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/mw2012/papers/open_innovation
MakerFaire@TheTech 2012
Title: MakerFaire@TheTech
Roles: Curator / interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / digital signage / interaction design / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibits (2012) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Twelve curated interactives developed in partnership with Maker Faire exhibitors.
Partners: LittleBits / Multiplo / Spinbots / others
URL: http://makerfaire.com/bay-area-2012/press-highlights-2012
Hextables – Hexagonal table design
Title: Hextable
Roles: Product design
Project Type: Configurable tables (2012) in use at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Designed table system for maximum interactivity with hexagonal shape, adjustable height, removable top border, and accompanying signage.
Partners: Chris Harding + Tech Museum fabrication / John Viera (rendering)
URL: https://www.thetech.org/plan-your-visit/exhibits/tech-studio
User research personas / The Tech Open Source 2011
Title: The Tech Open Source (redesign)
Roles: Web Product Manager / community manager / user research / interaction design / UX
Project Type: Community project-based website (2011)
Description: Revised design community website with user profiles, full portfolios, and project showcase.
Partners: Sam Menter
URL: https://open.thetech.org/
Smart Museum Proposal 2011
Title: Smart Museum Grant Proposal
Roles: Research / concept / proposal writing
Project Type: Grant proposal funded to $3M (2011)
Description: Contributed open source / open collaboration concepts and details to this proposal to develop responsive museum experiences.
Partners: Dr. Alana Conner / Google.org / Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn.
Tech Test Zone opening 2011-11-15
Title: Tech Test Zone (exhibition)
Roles: Curator / interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Emerging technology exhibition (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Six interactive stations where visitors directly encounter research-level emerging technology hands-in.
Partners: Andre Michelle / John MacDuffie Woodburn / Matt Miller / Flir / Dr. Ross Smith / Ideum / OpenExhibits / Intel / Ori Inbar
URL: http://www.cnet.com/pictures/future-tech-exhibit-plugs-museum-interactivity-photos/
Tech Test Zone Feedback Stations – on iPad / Photo: CNet
Title: Feedback Stations
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit kiosk (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Touch-screen stations allow users to send messages directly to researchers, while a database plots perceived impact of the technology on display.
Partners: Aaditya Bhatia / Emil So
URL: http://www.cnet.com/pictures/future-tech-exhibit-plugs-museum
Tangible interface – “Digital Foam” / Photo: CNet
Title: Digital Foam
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Interactive public display of recently patented deformable surface.
Partners: Dr. Ross Smith Univ. of S. Australia Adelaide
URL: http://www.google.com/patents/US20100225340
Eye Tracking – “Pixel” / Photo: CNet
Title: Pixel
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Eye-tracking experience in which observers can see where the current user is looking.
Partners: John MacDuffie Woodburn / Matt Miller / Eyewriter software
URL: http://mmworks.mattmillerart.com/work/pixel
Gestural interface – “Body Zoom” / Photo: CNet
Title: Body Zoom
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Open-source software and a Kinect motion sensor enable gigapixel image zoom.
Partners: Open Exhibits / Ideum
URL: http://openexhibits.org/download/gigapixel-viewer/
Tangible shape and sound – “Sound Circles” / Photo: CNet
Title: Sound Circles
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Interactive exhibit based on iOS app
Partners: Andre Michelle
URL: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/pulsate
Augmented reality – ‘Trace-A-Race” / Photo: CNet
Title: Trace-A-Race
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Interactive augmented reality driving game on iPad
Partners: Ori Inbar / Ogmento (later Flyby Media acquired by Apple)
URL: http://www.cnet.com/pictures/future-tech-exhibit-plugs-museum
Augmented vision – “Thermal Camera” / Photo: CNet
Title: Augmented Vision
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / project manager / UX
Project Type: Interactive exhibit (2011) at Tech Museum San Jose CA
Description: Experiential exhibit using thermal camera to view whole-body and groups.
Partners: FLIR Systems
URL: www.flir.com
Interfaces for the New Decade – Heist demo
Title: Interfaces for the New Decade
Roles: Concept / curator / project manager / speaker
Project Type: Professional conference and technology demos (2011)
Description: What might the museum sector learn and adopt from emerging interfaces in the coming decade?
Partners: Open Exhibits / Ideum / Intel / Simiosys / Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn.
URL: http://testzone2011.eventbrite.com/
Science of the City logo 2011
Title: Science of the City
Roles: Concept team / contest administration / web design / usability / UX
Project Type: International video contest (2011)
Description: This competition challenges filmmakers to create insightful two-minute vignettes revealing science found in everyday life.
Partners: Dr. Ramon Sanguesa / Irene LaPuente / Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn.
URL: http://www.scienceofthecity.net
Microchip Clips / Photo: Intel
Title: Microchip Clips
Roles: Concept / curator / contest administration / graphic design
Project Type: International video contest / science museum exhibit (2010)
Description: This competition challenged filmmakers to create insightful vignettes revealing the function and impact of microchips.
Partners: Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn. / Intel / Dr. Alana Conner / The Tech Museum
URL: https://www.thetech.org/plan-your-visit/exhibits/sv-innovation
Prototype an Interactive Exhibit in 90 Minutes Using Digital Tools
Title:Prototype an Interactive Exhibit in 90 Minutes Using Digital Tool
Roles: Author / presenter
Project Type: Paper / professional training (2010)
Description: Professional training on use of 3D prototyping in an online virtual world.
Partners: Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn. / The Tech Museum / Museums and the Web
URL: http://www.museumsandtheweb.com/biblio/prototype_an_interactive
Less is Moore
Title: Less is Moore
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / funding grant author / UX
Project Type: Interactive science museum exhibit (2010)
Description: This exhibit illustrates the speed of transistor switching inside microchips by displaying milliseconds elapsed in a hand wave.
Partners: Intel / Jodelle French / Dr. Peter Friess / Birgit Binner / The Tech Museum
URL: https://www.thetech.org/plan-your-visit/exhibits/sv-innovation
Silicon ON/OFF
Title: Silicon ON/OFF
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / funding grant author / UX
Project Type: Interactive science museum exhibit (2010)
Description: This exhibit illustrates the basic function of a microchip transistor gate as the basic unit inside a microchip.
Partners: Intel / Jodelle French / Dr. Peter Friess / Birgit Binner / The Tech Museum
URL: https://www.thetech.org/plan-your-visit/exhibits/sv-innovation
Places of Invention
Title: Places of Invention
Roles: Design exploration lead / mentor
Project Type: Museum exhibition (design stage) (2009)
Description: Lead exploratory design sprints with 20+ professional and pro bono designers on three themes related to upcoming Smithsonian exhibition.
Partners: Smithsonian Lemelson Center / Dr. Peter Friess / Dr. Arthur Molella
Buy and Cell
Title: Buy and Cell
Roles: Interaction design / exhibit design / UX
Project Type: Interactive science museum exhibit (2010)
Description: This exhibit simulates a flip phone based marketplace named CellBazaar (now ekhanei.com) founded by Kamal Quadir (Bangladesh).
Partners: Tina (Bean) Blaine / Dr. Peter Friess / Birgit Binner / The Tech Museum programming and fabrication
URL: https://www.thetech.org/tech-global-good/exhibit
Program for the Future
Title: Program for the Future
Roles: Curator / founding team / co-organizer / producer
Project Type: Technology conferences and demos (2008 and 2010)
Description: On the 40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s Mother of all Demos, Program for the Future formed to continue the vision of augmenting human intellect to continually “get better at getting better”, and followed in 2010 with “CoLaboration”, a focus on collaboration technologies.
Partners: Sam Hahn / Mei Lin Fung / Dr. Robert Stephenson / The Tech Museum
URL: http://grayarea.org/program-for-the-future-challenge-the-tech-virtual-museum-wkshp/
Tech Open Source website
Title: The Tech Open Source (website and design community)
Roles: Interaction design / web product manager / usability / community manager / design mentor / UX
Project Type: Design community website (2008-2014)
Description: This web community provided a venue for open innovation and open source in the museum sector.
Partners: Gordon and Betty Moore Fdn. / The Tech Museum
URL: https://open.thetech.org/
NASA Virtual Worlds – Augmented Exploration
Title: NASA Workshop on Virtual Worlds and Immersive Environments
Roles: Curator / organizer / presenter
Project Type: Professional workshop (2008)
Description: Workshop explored three scenarios about the evolution of virtual environments: “Remote exploration”, “We all get to go”, and “Become the data” visions of the future.
Partners: Dr. Bruce Damer / Dr. Stephanie R. Langhoff
URL: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20090036994
ATT Foundry Palo Alto
Title: Virtual World SIG / Digital Media SIG / Mobile Group
Roles: Founder / curator / producer
Project Type: Professional special interest group (SIG) (2006-2015)
Description: This professional group based in Silicon Valley hosted over 40 events and conferences over nine years.
Partners: SVForum / Joe Jasin / Peter Lam / Ashish Aggarwal / Pilsbury Law / Qualcomm / AT&T Foundry
URL: http://digitalmediasig.com (archive)
Club bebe
Title: Club bebe
Roles: Program design / interaction design / interface design / UX
Project Type: Online and point-of-sale based loyalty program (2005)
Description: Worked directly with CEO and e-commerce team to design and launch points-based loyalty program which enrolled five million members in its first year.
Partners: Developed while at bebe stores inc.
URL: http://www.bebe.com
Title: Perceiving the Digital Landscape
Roles: Researcher / author / presenter
Project Type: Graduate research (2001)
Description: Research of publicly available cell phone prototypes revealed future inevitability of a standardized interface (1st runner up CA State University research competition 2001).
Partners: California State University
URL: Report available by request
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