Boosted approached TM to help design an iOS app for their boards. Its number one priority was to give its riders the ability to update the board’s firmware directly from their smartphones as new features are released. Until now, users had to bring in their boards to Boosted workshops to receive them. Our task was to help transform Boosted Boards into an electric vehicle with a truly mobile operating system. Here's a view into the process. You can read more about our process in this Medium blog post. 

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My design firm, TM, is currently leading all design efforts for Product Hunt. 

TM launched Games and Books categories, redesigned the product detail page, global navigation and activity feed.  TM led the design of Collections, which gives users a simple way to collect, organize and share the products they love. 

TM led the design of Mesosphere's Data Center Operating system. 

The Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) is a new kind of operating system that spans all of the servers in a physical or cloud-based datacenter, and runs on top of any Linux distribution. DCOS allows users to organize the machines in their datacenter or cloud as if they were one big computer, saving time, money and improving speed. 

TM is leading a number of design initiatives with our partners at RadPad. 

Lead designer of the Airbnb discovery and booking process. Work contributed to the dramatic increase in the number of instantly bookable properties and improving conversion rate. 

Last minute travel is a major business. (A trip booked less than ~48 hours in advance) Most of these trips are booked on a mobile device. 

The average reservation on Airbnb is made a month in advance, and completing a booking can take up to eight days. I

I lead the design of a mobile last minute booking experience. Users could discover affordable places nearby in their city and weekend getaways. 

Lead UX & interaction designer of the navigation for Airbnb's iOS7 app. Travel and host left navigation "spaces" provide users with clear environments to engage with the core Airbnb product experiences: traveling and hosting. Background gradient pulls from last page viewed.

Biggest challenge was to keep the Airbnb experience unified, rather than make two distinct guest and host apps. This drives more downloads and converts more guests to hosts - a business goal. Our vision is one Airbnb community. 

Also led UX of search filters. 

Lead UX designer to relaunch Airbnb's iPhone app.

ew design enables playful interactions, richer browsing, social discovery, sharing, improved navigation and Facebook open graph integration. For the first time users could browse interactive photos of popular listings, explore curated wish lists, and see where their friends want to travel.

Airbnb’s iPhone app was voted by Apple as “App of the Year” in several European markets and recognized as the “Most Disruptive App” of the year in the US. 

www.airbnb.com/wishlists

Lead designer and product manager of Airbnb's Wish Lists. 

Wish Lists were transformative for Airbnb. The new feature moved the platform from one that simply enabled search and booking to one that empowers its members to explore an array of remarkable spaces, discover their friends' favorite listings, and plan their own dream trips. Wish Lists made Airbnb more visual, more beautiful, and more shareable. 

Over 15 million properties have been saved to Wish Lists and over 2 million Wish Lists have been created. 77% of Wish Lists are public and shared. 

Wish List stories on Facebook's News Feed are one of the most engaging in terms of click through rate. 

Lead UX designer. Meetups is a social product currently in beta. It enables Airbnb travelers and locals who are in the same city to connect in the real world and attend unique local activities.

​Users can join a variety of meetups hosted by the community or easily create their own from local's recommendations integrated into the app. It is a 'social travel guide' designed to spark meaningful connections amongst the Airbnb community. 

Lead UX designer. Meetups is a social product currently in beta. It enables Airbnb travelers and locals who are in the same city to connect in the real world and attend unique local activities.

sers can join a variety of meetups hosted by the community, or easily create their own from local's recommendations integrated into the app. It is a 'social travel guide' designed to spark meaningful connections amongst the Airbnb community. 

Designed from 2005-2006. 

oncept leverages multi-touch technology, with haptic buttons in the palm for customizable gestures. The device can be worn in a variety of ways: on the hand, wrist, or around the neck. 

Lead designer of Google+.

plus.google.com

Responsible for the circle editor, a novel drag and drop UI to control what you share. Contributed to the design of user profiles, site-wide navigation, and news feed. Helped shape vision and user experience of the product and worked closely with the product team, designers, engineering, managing executives, and founders. 

Lead designer of Airbnb Support pages. 

airbnb.com/support

Customer support efficiency is one of the biggest challenges and opportunities to improve the Airbnb experience. 

Navigation is dramatically improved, search is more prominent, and the design incorporates custom info cards that attempt to predict what state the user is in. When you have a trip, we'll have a card displaying all the relevant details. If you're a host and your guest just checked out, we'll display options that are relevant to you at that moment. There are dozens of predictive states that we've designed to make being a member of the Airbnb community simple, even when things don't always work out perfectly. 

Lead designer on Airbnb's growth team. 

Data inspired design to convert more guests into being hosts. Dynamic social, economic, and story telling experiences are built and tested to help multiply the likelihood of a user listing his/her space on Airbnb.  

Co-inventor of SUPER. A visual search engine an fun way to express bold opinions. 

Social Q&A search engine app I designed and prototyped. People ask questions with definitive statements. The community responds with opinions and votes responses up/down. 

Designer and co-founder of DailyModi, an iPhone app that provides daily visual inspiration in your pocket.

he app prompts users to rate new collections of products, art, fashion, or photography every day. At the end you can view the most popular to least popular images, and see which items you and your friends liked the most. 

ith a simple gesture of flicking "up" you can like something and by flicking "down" you skip it. Everyday, there was at least one collection of items that you could purchase. This pillars of the product were about simplicity, recommendations, data, and fun. By collecting users likes over time, we could predict what they may like in the future. 

Future Perfect is an ad-hoc mobile event planning & photo sharing app for iPhone and Android.

Future Local is an app for discovering and sharing unique local products in your city. It also functions as a discovery platform for local retailers. 

​To address with quality control, users can rate recently added products up/down to provide collaboratively filtered recommendations for the network. This UI insight informed work on DailyModi. 

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Designs for augmented 3-D street view and social maps. 

Early design concept for the Google Chrome tablet. Morning alarm clock wake up flow pictured. 

Wireframe concepts for a chat based social search engine. 

Provided both strategic vision and tactical product development support for Motorola’s Enterprise Mobility Business.

​Responsible for user research, UI, and industrial design. 

Social e-commerce prototype for discovering shoes. Like shoes up/down and see what you have in common with your friends. Receive better recommendations the more you rate.

Look at products through the lens of your friends: See how your style matches up, pick looks for them, and discover interesting trends. Built on Zappos API. 

Launched PlayModi.com, a tool for publishers to make inspirational sets of images to be rated by their friends & followers. Makes content more sticky and interactive. Designed integrations with Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Flickr, and Foursqaure. Forged partnerships with several companies (Aiirbnb, Refinery29) and blogs. Saw a fast growing user response, at times clocking 50 ratings / second. 

​Social annotation tool for the web. Original product vision by Larry Page and Sergey Brin before they invented search. 

Project sponsored by the NASA Institute of Advanced concepts.

Worked on an interdisciplinary team to design a mobile lunar base. The fleet of vehicles leveraged composite inflatables to create lightweight habitats. Designed to travel from the north lunar pole to the south lunar pole. 

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Designed vehicles and habitats for NASA’s return to the Moon by 2020. Worked on a team designing the lunar outpost, lunar ascent vehicle, and lunar lander mobility system. Concepts were evaluated by end-user astronauts. Designed and built a refreshed mock-up of the International Space Station’s crew quarters and conducted ergonomic evaluations of the new crew exploration vehicle. Work was rooted in design research human factors. 

Sponsored by Wacom Technology. ​

Teleportraiture provides a collaborative drawing and painting experience between to people at different locations. 

​The interface is a  digital application of a classic painting mediums. Custom paintbrushes were fabricated. The user encounters a live video feed of someone at another installation site. A dial adjusts the opacity of the video feed. 

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​New York City landmark inspired dishware. Manufactured by Mikasa, sold at Nordstroms. 

​Designed and fabricated office workstation. 

Who doesn't love a bouncy chair? 

Customizable pre-fab housing concept. 

Designed and fabricated a playful take on the classic card table. 

Designed and built this RTA wood table.