Streaming Video
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
― Charles Eames
A lifelong movie enthusiast, I embraced the opportunity to shape the future of television in 2005 when I began designing for TV screens during a paradigm shift to 10ft UIs.
My focus was on crafting interfaces that seamlessly blended into the viewer's content environment and device ecosystem, offering intuitive and immersive exploration that enhanced the entertainment experience.
Google TV
At Google, I envisioned the future of streaming video, focusing on content discovery, access, and engagement across the multi-device, multi-application, multi-user, living room ecosystem. I was responsible for leading developer and consumer experiences for key cross organizational initiatives, partnerships, broadcast, streaming, and rental product integrations.
Google TV
YouTube Leanback
As streaming content exploded, so did the complexity of creating engaging user experiences. I led the charge in designing intuitive interfaces for this new era, balancing the needs of consumers and developers. I spearheaded the development of the flagship YouTube app while pushing the boundaries of innovation with emergent innovations like LG's Magic Remote, ensuring our platform remained at the forefront of the evolving living room ecosystem.
Google TV
Android
As a thought leader in a blossoming domain, I authored the first Android TV UI Design Guidelines, establishing best practices for visually striking and functionally seamless living room applications. My leadership defined the blueprint for developers and designers to create exceptional experiences for our industry defining platform.
Google TV
Companion App
The expansion into second screen devices presented a unique opportunity to reimagine the living room experience. I saw potential to create complementary, value added companions to TV content, challenging the status quo of mere big screen replications. By focusing on extended functionality and greater interaction vocabulary we could redefine how people interact with content across multiple devices.
Bringing ideas to life with prototypes helped me take ideas to stakeholders and users alike to align and validate.
Google TV
Fiber
As new business opportunities grew from what the Google TV team started. I was relied on to bootstrap and support the emerging products that broadened our reach to more markets and content opportunities.
Amazon Video
I was the lead designer through multiple phases of growth for Amazon’s industry leading video on demand streaming video subscription, sales, and rental services. It was my role to conceive, define, design, and oversee the implementation of a consistent content experience across emerging OEM/native platforms and devices including web, set top boxes, DVD players, smart TVs, tablet, and mobile.
As the opportunity for new platforms became a business priority, and as an expert in devices and streaming video contexts, I took the helm and defined Amazon’s first streaming video app for iPhone.
Amazon Video
Mobile
As one opportunity naturally leads to another, I was tasked to design our flagship Android version which would fully realize business goals of device based sales and rentals.
After breaking ground with the iPhone and Android mobile apps for our video products, I moved the company user focus forward by socializing ideas and collaborating on solutions for a unified approach to search, browse, purchase, and consumption with our sibling music service.
Those successes and influence put me in the company wide design roundtable as the streaming content knowledge leader for a collaboration that unified all digital customer content into a single experience on the kindle.
Hillcrest Labs
We’ve rewound back to where my TV journey began. As television based content proliferated and navigation became increasingly complex, we embarked on a mission to simplify the experience. With the innovation of a Freespace motion-sensing remote, we unlocked a new frontier of navigation possibilities, a "mouse for the television." Free from the constraints of the traditional D-pad, we developed a 3D graphical, zoomable user interface (ZUI) for navigating and consuming TV content, alongside a TV first internet browser.
