Amplified

I worked as a creative and technical generalist across many different projects at this Portland, Oregon based design consultancy.

Responsibilities

• Led technology based projects with both screen and physical/digital deliverables.
• Started a thought leadership article series for the design community centered around futurism in everyday life.
• Overhauled development practices with modern tooling and code libraries.
• Provided creative direction and strategy for client based workshops and ideation sessions.
• Developed an on-campus device registration, provisioning and tracking application for Intel.
• Built an autonomous driving simulation app using synchronized phones, tablets and PCs.

CallisonRTKL

The international architecture firm wanted to explore what a technolgy infused in-person shopping experience could be like in the near future.

We started with collaborative research sessions (the above sketches were done by the architects) and pooled my teamʼs screen design and technical expertise with the spacial design skills of CallisonRTKL to imagine different interactive shopping spaces.

We refined these ideas into aspirational, integrated digital/physical designs that would utilize various proximity sensors and anonymous shopper data collection to present dynamic in-person shopping experiences.

Design Week Portland

Amplified wanted to host an event for Design Week Portland and provide an interactive and engaging way for our guests to learn about the company.

Upon entering the Amplified office, guests came to a kiosk station which had the available phones next to it. Filling out a small form linked the user to a device and allowed them to share some content with other guests.

Rather than relying on people to download an app prior to arrival, we provided phones for guests to use with the native app already running. The app picked up the signals from the beacons which provided the approximate distance the phone was from the beacon. Using this information the app would switch between views, or trigger events to screens we had running around the office. The native application’s default state was an “icebreaker” interface that detected all of the beacons the Amplified employees were carrying on them, and sorted employee info cards by proximity.

As users walked around our space and passed close enough to a monitor, it would detect their presence and greet them, and then play a video about the company.