Values

• Mutualism. Are our efforts beneficial to all parts of the system as well as ourselves?
• Contact. Are we speaking and connecting with the people who we are building for?
• Output. Are we releasing our bets as soon as we've done the right amount of diligence?

Here — A Weather Vibe Camera

• how might we make digital photography a bit more magical and truly encapsulate the moment without additional effort?
• The photographer's current location is used to pull in the weather conditions across temperature, wind, clouds, precipitation. each condition automatically applies a relevant effect to the final image.
• The photographer could travel to other locations beyond her/his current location and influence her/his photo based on the traveled location's condition.

Instruments: Xcode, Firebase, Swift, Core Image, Weather API

Roles: Designer & iOS Engineer

App Store

Squarespace Point of Sale

How might we increase the channels our customers transact in?

Instruments: Design Sprint, User Research, Prototyping

Roles: Product Manager & Designer & Researcher

EveryDayFeels App

• how might I begin designing and building augmented reality experiences?
• a simple journal app where you could define your top two daily priorities. in the example "craft" and "health" are used. you could rate each day for each priority from 1-5. if you wish to add more detail for each day, you could tap on the day and write.
• you could look around the scene in order to see how the rest of your days in that week have gone to help you adjust your daily flow for improvement.

Instruments: Xcode, Figma, ARKit, CoreData, Swift

Roles: Designer & iOS Engineer

App Store

Touchy Feely App

How might coding my own iOS app help me be a better collaborator with engineering partners?

Instruments: Xcode

Woodworking Sabbatical

How might I apply my product design process to wood-based objects? Throughout several months I designed, prototyped, and made a range of objects which are still in use today.

Instruments: Bandsaw, Mitre Saw, Router, Mortiser, Chisel, Mallet, Ryoba, etc.

Squarespace VR

How might Squarespace translate its success with websites into virtual reality environments?

Instruments: Unity, HTC Vive

Squarespace Service Audit

What is the weakest point in our service and how might we go about strengthening it?

Instruments: Service Audit, Stakeholder Management, Chunking

Spotify Daily Mix

How might we help "lean back" listeners have better listening sessions?

Instruments: User Research, Prototyping

Mighty Tiny Win

How might I go about developing my first paid project and launch it with the financial support of others?

Instruments: User Research, Physical Prototyping, Storyboarding, Crowdfunding, Networking, Rapid Skill Acquisition

Facebook After Party

How might we provide helpful contextual guidance to business owners after posting on their page?

Instruments: User Research, Prototyping, Stakeholder Management

Facebook Flash Insights

How might we help businesses understand how their ads are performing?

Instruments: User Research, Prototyping, Stakeholder Management

InsideTip App

How might I improve my understanding of engineering concepts and build a simple app while I'm at it? The app was a tip calculator with support for the top travel countries as well as bill splitting. Live on the AppStore for several years.

Instruments: Xcode, AppStore, AppAnnie

SumAll WebApp & iOS App

How might we gather the key metrics of all the services you're using in one place in order to support better decision making?

Instruments: User Research, Prototyping, Stakeholder Management

Thank You

Bejay Breton, Wilfredo Peña, Andrej Radisic, Michael Heilemann, Luca De Rosso, David Gomez, Davin Chew, Paul Yu, Raphy Martinez, Dane Atkinson, Ayush Saraswat, and Bernhard Mehl for the lessons shared.