I was the first IC to join the Echo Frames team, leading interaction design and user research in the earliest phases of product R&D. I developed concepts for speech, gesture, and spatial-audio interfaces. I built the software for the first interactive prototypes, ran user studies to validate product concepts and evaluate interaction methods, and presented demos and findings to senior leadership at Amazon. Through this work, I helped define robust, discoverable gesture interactions and transparent cues that ensured users always knew when the device was listening.
Beyond exploring and developing early concepts and prototypes, I helped grow and structure the team to ensure that product design, user research, and ergonomics received as much attention as technical considerations. As the first design technologist on the team, I established our prototyping and concept-testing approach and worked closely with the founding product and engineering leads to influence design and technical decisions that shaped the final product.
