Hardware Design

Below are some of the steps I take to research and design hardware solutions.

PROCTER & GAMBLE

Customizable, reusable tissue box

I invented and prepared for market launch a reusable and customizable Puffs Tissue box. I ideated hardware and instructional concepts, worked with an ID agency, Anza, to build SLAs, and collected feedback in focus groups that I moderated so I could iterate in SolidWorks during the groups.

Received my first patent for my “squiggle aperture”.

DIABETES MANAGEMENT APPLICATOR

Applicator UX Design

Working with business and product objectives, I created the experience objectives for Dexcom at the beginning of the project. I sought approval/buy-in from the development functions when "shiny new objects" show up later on in the project; I remind them that these are our agreed-to goals.

At one point, we needed to decide on color of the applicator. Here I scored the color options against our agreed-to UX goals.

Even though I preferred the green option, I could not endorse it as it did not meet our goals as well as the dark gray option.

We went with the dark gray and received numerous design awards.