A major bed manufacturer came to D2M in 2008 with interest in creating a new sleeping project. I was asked to help them visualize a new product that they were considering. Rather than creating a product sketch, I focused on properly framing the problem graphically. Considerations I came up with were time, temperature, position pressure and sound.

Although the project never got off the ground, the customer really liked this big picture approach.

 

As part of business development with the customer, I drilled down a little deeper in this story board illustrating perception problems and potential solutions.

 

After I left D2M, the CMO of a major consumer medical company approached me to work on a wearable drug delivery system.

The problem to overcome was a device that was easy to put on and take off. I coupled their proprietary misting system with an ergonomic headset design. The mister was designed on a 360 degree pivot head and an adjustable boom. The two worked in tandem to deliver the medicine to the nose and mouth to any head size.

 

It was important that the device worked well in a home environment and coupled seamlessly with the control unit.

The sketch to the left was the favorite of the client.

 

In my role as lead industrial designer at HP corporate, I was asked to lead the ID on a few projects that highlighted the technology coming out of HP labs.

DJammer was the worlds first digital wireless device that allowed a DJ to "scratch" music completely free from the turntable.

The focus was to take a pile of technology and turn it into an instrument that synched like a fine instrument with the artist.

Every major surface on this device was an actuated button relating to the 3 controls on the turntable that allowed traditional scratching. On the inside were accelerometers that tracked the back and forth movements mimicking the moving of the record.

I also produced a promotional video
that can be seen here