About

I live in San Francisco and lead design on Unity's Labs Team, working on the future of virtual reality. My team explores and creates interfaces for new applications and tools: the practicalities of creating things for VR, in VR. Right now I'm heavily focused on moving key Unity functionality directly into VR, one step closer to real human-computer interactions.

If you're interested in virtual or augmented reality, or actively working in the space, I'd love to hear from you. Send me an email or just say hi on Twitter. I also mentor new VR startups at Rothenberg, Upload Collective, and Runway.

Talks

I like giving talks, particularly around UX, product design and virtual reality.

• UPCOMING: Virtual Reality Ecosystem, Grace Hopper, October 2016
• UPCOMING: Dent: Space, San Francisco, September 2016
• The Next Generation of VR, Stanford, May 19, 2016
• Let's Go Cyberspace: Virtual Reality UX, Designers and Geeks, May 23, 2016
• Eames Ranch Design and Innovation Summit, April 29th, 2016
• VR UX: Let’s Go Cyberspace (SVVR 2016), April 28th, 2016
• Designing for the Future: How to Design in VR/AR, WWC+AR/VR Women's Academy, April 20, 2016
• Unite Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai, April 7-15th, 2016
• Virtual Reality: In 2016, and in the future (video), Strata + Hadoop World, April 2016
• Bridge Fireside chat, Designer Fund, February 2016
• Intro to VR Design, AIGA, February 2016
• Keynote: Introduction to Unity's VR scene editing tools, February 2016
• The Path to Product, August 2014
• You May Be Right: Cognitive Bias & Product Design, IndustryConf, April 2014
• Designing for Ancillary Data, slides, Passion Projects, May 2013

Interviews & Press

• No Matter Which VR Headset You Buy, This Company Wins, Bloomberg.
• Unity’s VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God, Road to VR.
• Timoni West on nailing the virtual reality user experience, O'Reilly Radar Podcast.
• How Unity Is Approaching the Coming VR Explosion, PC Magazine.
• Unite 2016 show EditorVR challenge the heavyweights, Sina (Shanghai).
• Unity Will Soon Let Developers Build Games Inside of VR Itself, Road To VR.
• Unity demonstrates new way to develop games inside virtual reality, VentureBeat.
• Unity’s Answer to Unreal’s VR Editor, VR Scout.
• New VR Creation & Cinematic VR Tools Being Prototyped in Unity, Voices of VR.
• Interview, Story in a Bottle.
• Interview, How to Shape Human Behavior.
• Foursquare and Flickr veteran on how design can influence users, Netmag.
• New Trends in Mobile Design, Nothing Major.
• Interview, Form And Future.
• Interview, Offscreen Mag 04.
• Why ‘Intuitive’ Interface Is A Myth, Fast Company.

Writings

• UX Pointers for VR Design.
• The Near Future of Consumer VR.
• Why I wear the same thing every day, & what I wear.
• A practical boarding pass redesign.
• Don't be afraid to teach interactions.

Select client and employer list

• Airtime (2012)
• Airbnb (2010)
• Alphaworks (2014)
• Bitly (2012)
• Burner (2013)
• Causes (2012)
• Everlane (2011)
• Flickr (2009 - 2011)
• Foursquare (2013 - 2014)
• Hacker Dojo (2011)
• Institute for the Future (2011)
• Matter (2012)
• Scribd (2007-2009)
• Snapguide (2011)
• SF Incubator (2014)
• Telly (2012)
• Teem (2015)
• Wishbone (2013)