I joined Hive AI in 2014 as the third employee, and have been an engineer and manager of multiple teams over my time there. I helped Hive grow to over 200 employees and to a $2B valuation. I was always most excited when I had the opportunity to lead product teams and sit between designers, engineers, testers, and executives. My strength was in communicating with these disparate parties, and making sure that the most important priorities were turned into clear action items for each. I most enjoyed the work of taking executive goals, distilling them to clear information architectures, then working creatively with designers to help us think outside the box about how we can satisfy the underlying goals of the architecture in potentially new and innovative ways.
Over the last two years, I have begun working on side projects to explore my own passion for spatial interfaces. I took a GIS class at Columbia GSAPP last year, and I built two apps called MIX and Wu Wei that were released this past January. MIX is a platform for augmented reality public art experiences, and explores how augmented reality can help us rethink our experience of public spaces. Wu Wei is an experiment on how to make AI most useful in spatial interfaces. MIX is available on iOS, tvOS, and visionOS, and Wu Wei is available for visionOS. I have built these projects largely myself, but I also manage a freelance designer and engineer.
I write public notes on interface and system design, and I publish them on my website. A couple examples here: