Over 20+ years, I’ve collaborated on hundreds of projects in many industries.

Many are confidential — but it’s likely that you carry digital experiences I invented in your pocket every day. You might be one of the 90,000+ students for whom I helped reinvent online education. Or you might have benefitted from one of the wellness or medical products I helped create.

The following are a sampling of projects from my time at Daylight and IDEO. The links will take you to relevant Daylight or IDEO case studies, as well as press releases, Wikipedia articles, etc.

Pearson Q-Interactive Clinical assessments traditionally involve lugging cumbersome bundles of test kits around, and tedious paper-based scoring. I designed the web platform for their new all-digital offering, Q-interactive. Learn more — **Pearson Q-Interactive**
Clinical assessments traditionally involve lugging cumbersome bundles of test kits around, and tedious paper-based scoring. I designed the web platform for their new all-digital offering, Q-interactive. Learn more

UNICEF Kid Power I led the team that helped UNICEF motivate kids across the United States to increase their physical activity, while teaching them what it means to be a global citizen. Learn more — **UNICEF Kid Power**
I led the team that helped UNICEF motivate kids across the United States to increase their physical activity, while teaching them what it means to be a global citizen. Learn more

Belkin Conserve Gateway How do you enable smart choices about energy use? I helped Belkin to design a suite of offerings that does just that. We also worked on some other cool stuff that unfortunately I can’t talk about! Read press release — **Belkin Conserve Gateway**
How do you enable smart choices about energy use? I helped Belkin to design a suite of offerings that does just that. We also worked on some other cool stuff that unfortunately I can’t talk about! Read press release

HopeLab Zamzee Before activity monitors were ubiquitous, Daylight worked with HopeLab to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity, and in doing so, created what I believe to be the first game-mechanics powered activity monitor. I led the user exper… — **HopeLab Zamzee**
Before activity monitors were ubiquitous, Daylight worked with HopeLab to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity, and in doing so, created what I believe to be the first game-mechanics powered activity monitor. I led the user experience design and software prototyping effort. Learn more

Logitech Broadcaster Logitech wanted to create a wireless webcam offering targeted at professional and semi-professional bloggers who had more sophisticated video needs than your average user. I led the research and early ideation work and the user … — **Logitech Broadcaster**
Logitech wanted to create a wireless webcam offering targeted at professional and semi-professional bloggers who had more sophisticated video needs than your average user. I led the research and early ideation work and the user experience design. Learn more

Technology commercialization for Immersion I have a long history of helping Immersion find innovative applications for their groundbreaking haptic feedback technology, and some of it has been widely commercialized. The specifics of much of the Dayli… — **Technology commercialization for Immersion**
I have a long history of helping Immersion find innovative applications for their groundbreaking haptic feedback technology, and some of it has been widely commercialized. The specifics of much of the Daylight work are confidential, but several inventions have been patented, and those can be viewed here.

City of Santa Monica Wellbeing Index The City formed a partnership with RAND to create a framework for measuring community wellbeing. They asked Daylight to help design it. My primary role on the project was communication design, the lead UX designe… — **City of Santa Monica Wellbeing Index**
The City formed a partnership with RAND to create a framework for measuring community wellbeing. They asked Daylight to help design it. My primary role on the project was communication design, the lead UX designer was my colleague Henry Liu. Learn more here and here.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthcare Futures I lead the team that helped RWJF visualize nine potential healthcare futures and showcased the key interactions through video-based "narrative prototypes". Learn more — **Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthcare Futures**
I lead the team that helped RWJF visualize nine potential healthcare futures and showcased the key interactions through video-based "narrative prototypes". Learn more

Google Aardvark Social Search Aardvark was a social search engine that finds the perfect person to answer any question in minutes. While a partner at Daylight, I consulted with them to define their design process. They were soon acquired by Google. … — **Google Aardvark Social Search**
Aardvark was a social search engine that finds the perfect person to answer any question in minutes. While a partner at Daylight, I consulted with them to define their design process. They were soon acquired by Google. Google eventually closed down the service in an effort to reduce the number of different offerings. You can read all about Aardvark here.

I’ve been involved in a number ‘firsts’…

Eyemodule Twenty years ago there were no UX precedents for capturing, managing or sharing photos on phones. My very first project at IDEO was helping to design the UX of the “eyemodule” series of accessories. They added camera functionality to the H… — **Eyemodule**
Twenty years ago there were no UX precedents for capturing, managing or sharing photos on phones. My very first project at IDEO was helping to design the UX of the “eyemodule” series of accessories. They added camera functionality to the Handspring PDA, creating the first camera-enabled handheld device.
It was especially cool to get to do some design sessions with Rob Haitani, designer of the Palm OS. A few articles about it are here and here.

IDEO Photobase Before Flickr, Picasa or Instagram took over the world, I invented and developed an internal photo sharing site called IDEO Photobase with colleague Graham Hicks.It’s quite amazing to see how many of the elements of this site are pres… — **IDEO Photobase**
Before Flickr, Picasa or Instagram took over the world, I invented and developed an internal photo sharing site called IDEO Photobase with colleague Graham Hicks.
It’s quite amazing to see how many of the elements of this site are present in the commercial offerings that came later on.

IDEO Netbox Way before Digg and Reddit, I created a social web content sharing website called IDEO Netbox along with my colleague Mark Chance. It was inspired by my mentor Dennis Boyle’s collection of interesting engineering and manufacturing artifa… — **IDEO Netbox**
Way before Digg and Reddit, I created a social web content sharing website called IDEO Netbox along with my colleague Mark Chance. It was inspired by my mentor Dennis Boyle’s collection of interesting engineering and manufacturing artifacts known as the Tech Box.
Mark and I wanted to enable designers to digitally share and discuss examples of interesting web design. The most recent posts and discussion threads could be accessed via the front page, and you could browse threads based on topic. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Learning from Bill Moggridge, the first “interaction designer” I was fortunate to get to spend some time with Bill. He was a co-founder of IDEO, a visionary, and he literally coined the term “interaction design”. During the last couple of years, Bil… — **Learning from** **Bill Moggridge, the first “interaction designer”**
I was fortunate to get to spend some time with Bill. He was a co-founder of IDEO, a visionary, and he literally coined the term “interaction design”. During the last couple of years, Bill was working on his definitive book on that topic. I didn’t play any kind of key role, but sometimes Bill sought feedback on his drafts from colleagues. Like many others, I was happy to respond. Bill’s thoughtful and human approach was a big influence on my development as a designer.

Lastly, here are a couple fun things from the early days.

Back in 2001, the web felt small. There was no Google. The first browser war was raging. And there was a feeling of community among designers and developers. One manifestation of this was a good-natured contest called the 5k competition, organized by Stewart Butterfield, a great guy who went on to co-found Flickr and Slack. The idea was to make a useful “app” not more than 5k in size.

IDEO ASCII Typesetter Type in a word or phrase, choose an ASCII character, and this will typeset it using that character as a “pixel’. Made in collaboration with Mark Chance, Meghan McDowell and Danny Stillion along with Matt Desmond and Joe Kral, t… — **IDEO ASCII Typesetter**
Type in a word or phrase, choose an ASCII character, and this will typeset it using that character as a “pixel’. Made in collaboration with Mark Chance, Meghan McDowell and Danny Stillion along with Matt Desmond and Joe Kral, the founders of Test Pilot Collective, who we had hired at IDEO at the time. The code is almost 20 years old, but it still works! Try it out here.

IDEO Color Visualizer In 2001, there wasn’t a way to rapidly preview color palette choices for web pages. You had to edit code. Mark Chance and I made this simple visualization tool, and at the time it was called the “single most useful web page for… — **IDEO Color Visualizer**
In 2001, there wasn’t a way to rapidly preview color palette choices for web pages. You had to edit code. Mark Chance and I made this simple visualization tool, and at the time it was called the “single most useful web page for designers” by ID Magazine. The code is 20 years old and still functions, despite a couple of layout glitches. Try it out here.