A phone OS concept with an interface shared across apps.Every messaging app in one inbox, which helps you remember what someone cares about.Feeds like TikTok open inside a frame you control: a time budget, and styles like a slow fade to grayscale.One interface, shared across every app.AI as the phone’s main interface: say what needs doing.
Design, product direction, and building it with AI coding tools
State
Working public pilot / October 2026
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My first software design project: a redesign of JLab’s mobile app, for our newer earbuds.
My work
Entire mobile app design
Platform
Android + iOS
The original JLab Sound app
The problem
Most bad reviews came from people who couldn’t connect at all, not people who disliked the app.
★★★★★
“most all your earbuds say anc but noooo only the “epic” ones you can use for [the app]”
JLab Sound · App Store review, Sep 2022 ↗This user is confused, and believes ANC has some meaning besides active noise canceling. The feature has nothing to do with the app.
Process
From diagnosis to three steps
First try: diagnose it with questions→ Then mapping every path in FigJam→
What shipped: three steps, then it just connects
Try it
The current JLab app.
Already connected to JBuds Sport ANC 4 and a Pop Party speaker.
The old Sound app was rated about 1.7★. The new app reached 4.2★ on Google Play while I was there, and it has 1M+ downloads.
I designed JLab’s three gaming lines, then one desktop app for them and our work products.
My work
Industrial design / entire desktop app design
Collaboration
JLab product team, supplier engineering, specification and testing help from our PM Chris Jenkins
Two people open the same app. A serious player wants every setting. An office worker wants to remap three keys and never come back.
In process
Screen and flow explorationsControl explorationsReferences and structureImplementation notes. I try to give engineers everything they need to understand what’s going on and implement it well.
The design
Simple where it can be, deep where it needs to be
BeforeThe app mine replaced. Every product that had ever been connected, whether it’s plugged in now or not.AfterOnly what’s connected to your computer right now. Some of these have simple settings and some go deep, but you don’t need to know that while you’re choosing one.
BeforeChanging one key: every command in one long list, then OK, then Apply.AfterFive groups of commands. Drag one onto the key. For someone with a work keyboard, that’s the whole app.
WorkA work mouseFour DPI steps and a refresh rate. Plenty for most people.GamingA gaming mouseSame tab, same layout, much deeper. DPI stages, a shift button and polling rate.
WorkA work keyboardFive groups of commands and two tabs. Drag one onto a key and you’re done.GamingA gaming keyboardSame layout, much deeper. Dynamic Keystroke gives one key four actions, at partial press, full press and both releases.
The desktop app
A UI that feels the same for all products
Try the working demo
By the way: open the Daybreak keyboard and press a letter on your own keyboard.
One feature didn’t ship, so I built it myself:Fontshift ↗
These were team projects, mostly led by my boss, Mark Kurth. In most, the images and the parts of the process I highlight are more mine, while the final ideas came from across the team; the ant baits’ final design is an exception.
My idea for a station that blends into a baseboard became the final design and a US design patent (US D1028165).
Spectrum Brands ant baits
The client’s preferred concept, Pond, was mine; a more manufacturable design became the final product.
Sport Court tile
I worked on a shared pump body and maintenance details, and imagined separate branding to keep the two brands recognizable.
Warren Rupp pump family
Mark Kurth led the project; Peter Muller’s design was chosen as the final one rendered here. The sketches, CAD and renderings shown are mine.
Alleviate vape pen
I contributed sketches and built the full-size physical prototypes; the sheath-lift control was my idea.
Cannon picking cart controls
I contributed design ideation and prototype assembly; Design Integrity did the engineering, and MNML the industrial design.
Inventables X-Carve Pro
I did sketching and industrial design support; the final design isn’t mine.
My first job was at a small design firmDesign Integrity, 2018–2021. Client work spanning warehouse equipment, industrial pumps, outdoor sport surfaces, home pest control, and commercial kitchen equipment.See earlier work ↑, where we used fast sketchingFor Spectrum Brands’ ant bait pipeline, pages of quick sketches working through details and variants across thirteen concept areas.Ant baits ↑ and physical prototypingA mock-up of a handle for a semi-automated industrial picking cart. I spent a while on explorations like this one.Cart controls ↑ to help clients decide what to develop nextOne of these started as my sketch: an ant bait station that blends into a baseboard. It became a US design patent.US D1028165 ↗The project ↑. Then I spent four years in-houseAt JLab I was the primary designer on 17 products, more than a dozen of which have gone into mass production so far.JLab Mobile ↑The Lab App ↑, staying with hardwareAs an example, I designed JLab’s gaming line: ten headsets, keyboards, and mice across three tiers. Gaming Trend called the Daybreak headset “one of the most comfortable wireless headsets I’ve put on.”Gaming Trend ↗Techaeris ↗The line ↑ and softwareIn addition to my primary work designing headphones, I designed JLab’s mobile app, then the desktop app, as side projects. The mobile app has millions of downloads, and people seem to like it. The desktop app came out this past year, and it’s nearly as complete as apps other companies have spent years building.Mobile app ↑Desktop app ↑ projects until they actually shipped.
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For Spectrum Brands’ ant bait pipeline, pages of quick sketches working through details and variants across thirteen concept areas.Ant baits ↑ and physical prototyping
A mock-up of a handle for a semi-automated industrial picking cart. I spent a while on explorations like this one.Cart controls ↑ to help clients decide what to develop next
One of these started as my sketch: an ant bait station that blends into a baseboard. It became a US design patent.US D1028165 ↗The project ↑. Then I spent four years in-houseAt JLab I was the primary designer on 17 products, more than a dozen of which have gone into mass production so far.JLab Mobile ↑The Lab App ↑, staying with hardware
As an example, I designed JLab’s gaming line: ten headsets, keyboards, and mice across three tiers. Gaming Trend called the Daybreak headset “one of the most comfortable wireless headsets I’ve put on.”Gaming Trend ↗Techaeris ↗The line ↑ and software
In addition to my primary work designing headphones, I designed JLab’s mobile app, then the desktop app, as side projects. The mobile app has millions of downloads, and people seem to like it. The desktop app came out this past year, and it’s nearly as complete as apps other companies have spent years building.Mobile app ↑Desktop app ↑ projects until they actually shipped.