About
I've spent most of my career working on things that didn't exist yet.
I started in industrial design at a San Francisco consultancy, building hardware and experiences for Google, Apple, Panasonic, and Ricoh. Then Cisco, as a UX designer on Webex Teams, where I moved into AR/VR/MR interaction design. Now I'm a Senior Designer at Woven by Toyota in the Special Projects Group, working on connected multi-platform experiences with AI at their core. Most of it has never been done before.
Somewhere along the way I stopped being one kind of designer. Hardware, software, and the space between them. That's where I'm most useful. I think in systems and ship in pixels: in the same week I'll map how a vehicle, home, and phone hand off context to each other, then sweat the micro-interactions inside a single screen of it.
A lot of how I think about machines comes from using them at the edge. I'm happiest on two wheels, drawn to anything that puts a person and a machine in motion together. Spend enough time there and you stop thinking about interfaces and start designing from instinct: the cumulative learning that tells you where a product or experience needs to go before you can fully explain why.
I love that this is rarely a solo act. The best work I've been part of came out of rooms where designers, engineers, and PMs built on each other's ideas, each contributing their own instincts to the same problem. That's where the real work happens, and where I'm at my best.
Patents
More on the way, additional patent applications are currently in progress and will be added as they're published.
Industrial Design
Medical Cart — Ricoh A mobile cart designed for clinical environments, protecting the distinctive physical form of the product.
US D714,454 S · Filed 2012, granted 2014
US D722,172 S · Filed 2012, granted 2015 (companion design)
Mobile Card Reader — PayPal The physical design of a compact card reader that attaches to a phone, allowing businesses to accept credit card payments anywhere.
US D740,287 S · Filed 2013, granted 2015
Personal Wireless Media Station — Pinn A wireless earbud paired with a base station. Audio plays through the base's speaker while the earbud is docked, then seamlessly transfers to the earbud when removed and worn, bridging the gap between shared listening and personal listening.
US 2018/0131793 A1 · Filed 2016 (home base station)
US 2019/0124193 A1 · Filed 2017 (wearable base station variant)
Augmented Reality & Computer Vision
Enhanced Contrast AR Tags — Toyota Research Institute — Next-generation visual markers, similar in concept to QR codes that AR systems and cameras can detect reliably even in challenging lighting conditions like a vehicle interior. Uses a translucent base layered with a pattern for improved visibility.
US 2022/0019086 A1 · Filed 2020
Vehicle Interaction & Intelligence
Context-Based Searching in Vehicles — Toyota — An occupant gestures at something from inside the car, and the vehicle interprets the context to surface relevant information, for example, pointing toward a building to learn more about it.
US 12,450,275 B2 · Filed 2024, granted 2025
Exterior Gesture Recognition — Toyota — The vehicle recognizes hand gestures performed from outside (like signaling to open the trunk when your hands are full), anticipates obstacles to completing the task, and resolves them automatically.
US 2026/0016820 A1 · Filed 2024
Contextually Adapted Access — Toyota — Vehicle access permissions adapt in real time based on the situation unfolding around the car, rather than relying on fixed rules, allowing or restricting entry based on context.
US 2026/0103167 A1 · Filed 2024
Autonomous Systems & Simulation
Templatized Road Segments — Toyota — A method for taking sensor data captured from real-world roads and using it as a template to generate realistic virtual road segments useful for simulation, testing, and training of autonomous driving systems.
US 2026/0087733 A1 · Filed 2024
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