Product Design

This is where things get real — shipped, used, and lived with by actual humans.

The work here spans the full product design spectrum: from defining the visual language of a beauty-tech brand to leading UX for Bose's first smart speaker; from helping a hardware-focused company take its first serious steps into software to designing a note-sharing economy for college students. The contexts are wildly different. The underlying questions tend to rhyme: What does this product feel like to use? What does it say about the people who made it? And does it actually serve the person on the other end?

A few highlights: the Bose AR Design Guidelines project involved codifying a whole new interaction paradigm — technical specs, design patterns, and brand voice for an audio AR platform. The SoundTouch Mobile App was a pivotal organizational moment, not just a design project. And on the other end of the scale, Annotorious and Karma Notes are sharp reminders that great UX problems don't require a Fortune 500 budget — just a real user need and someone willing to think it through.

If the Concept Design section is about asking "what if," this section is about answering "okay, but how."

Visual Language Analysis and Recommendations

This project was a collaboration with an in-house team to explore visual languages for a innovative Beauty and Tech product.

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A digital coffee maker control panel with options for coffee style, strength, temperature, shots, and froth type. It features icons of various coffee drinks such as espresso, latte, cappuccino, and others, with a prominent orange start button at the bottom center.

Coffee Maker UX

Designing and prototyping UX/UI for a new coffee product.

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Illustration of two people demonstrating head gestures for audio interaction, one seated and looking down, the other standing and facing sideways with dark hair pulled back and wearing glasses.

Bose AR Guidelines

Documentation of technical specifications, interactive design patterns, and branding for the Bose Audio Augment Reality platform.

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Collage of various tech devices and a man shouting or singing with a beard, including a smartphone, a smartwatch, a remote control, and a speaker, with music and digital content elements.

Multi-modal System Design Guidelines

A recommended framework for designing a multi-modal product ecosystem.

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Three Bose smart speakers with sleek, black design against a dark background.

Smart Speaker Design

Lead UX for Bose’s first VPA-enabled smart speaker

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A lineup of different speaker models on the left side with connection indicators, and a grid of various music and media interface screens on the right side.

Bose Soundtouch Mobile App

Steering a historically-hardware-focused organization into an investment in user-facing software.

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Screenshots of an e-reader displaying pages from the book "Alice in Wonderland" with highlighted text and annotation tools visible.

Annotorious

A mobile design for a socially collaborative annotation app for the MIT Hyperstudio.

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A cluttered table with magazines, papers, a green cutting mat, a ruler, pens, a mug, glue sticks, a brochure, and various office supplies.

Design Squad Nation

A social collaboration platform for kids to share and evolve their design and engineering ideas, under the brand of Peabody-winning show, Design Squad Nation.

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