I’m a product designer, prototyper, and lifelong learner.
I was a Principal Designer at an a16z-funded startup called FiftyThree. Following its successful first hardware product, Pencil, we set out to create a new stylus called Pen.
I owned the scenarios in which you might use Pen’s pushbutton encoder alongside a screen. I prototyped use cases to identify hero moments that we’d want to enable, impacting the manufacturing stack: from industrial design to encoder spec to firmware spec.
In hardware, it’s important to get these things right from the start...we can’t update atoms as easily as we can bits.
My work also broadened Pen’s potential audience beyond users of 53’s iOS app, Paper.
︎ Hardware/Software UX Design
︎ Research
︎ Strategy
︎ Prototyping Arduino, p5, swift, bluetooth
I owned the scenarios in which you might use Pen’s pushbutton encoder alongside a screen. I prototyped use cases to identify hero moments that we’d want to enable, impacting the manufacturing stack: from industrial design to encoder spec to firmware spec.
In hardware, it’s important to get these things right from the start...we can’t update atoms as easily as we can bits.
My work also broadened Pen’s potential audience beyond users of 53’s iOS app, Paper.
︎ Hardware/Software UX Design
︎ Research
︎ Strategy
︎ Prototyping Arduino, p5, swift, bluetooth