![Personal project (2021–2022): Device for quietly communicating the status of my home.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3cbb27cec1659c637e4fa0ab274ade83d437276825a734feb4c608632056c9bd/Render-post-translucent.png)
Multidisciplinary designer, educator, and design leader with an engineering background.
Currently at Google Labs in California, originally from the Danish countryside.
Below are a few public things I’ve worked on.
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Currently at Google Labs in California, originally from the Danish countryside.
Below are a few public things I’ve worked on.
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Assistant UX
Google2019—2022
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcace2b6bd21eb27fc3e8830d0458671dc17075fa46310d8c8818979a0a42e9b/tablet-assistant.gif)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8cdde07fed4b016608ab7aaa43c9bd2eac5ca7a0ae4d75d21a33063c0187107/Pixel-watch-assistant.gif)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ebb6de38dc6e05302c9bcddaf0dce37d95a6f490190c7bdb1e01c75a3750d8a/assistant-pixel-widened.gif)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3fae0acab6fea56835401c17580ce73bcb739b45eb28ff105655c2075247a63/nesthub2-cropped.png)
Creative Direction for all Google Assistant surfaces, developing an emerging design language for ambient intelligence and multimodal conversational interfaces.
Worked on Google Pixel 6 & 7, Pixel Watch, Pixel Tablet, Nest Hub Max, Nest Hub 2, Google TV, and Android Auto.
ROLE
Creative Director & Sr. Manager, Google
Worked on Google Pixel 6 & 7, Pixel Watch, Pixel Tablet, Nest Hub Max, Nest Hub 2, Google TV, and Android Auto.
ROLE
Creative Director & Sr. Manager, Google
Generative Brand
Pinterest2018—2019
![Image credit: Pinterest](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ceb09531cc5466cb1b07451790f630a88a58758b6dc77bd20d7cfb80617c6a84/pasted-image.jpg)
![Internal tool for generating organically laid out collages based on a user's pins](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8711cf8d2c5fead50634de49b54e2a2539686987ed6316a04a2a627664e17957/Screenshot-2.png)
![Image credit: Pinterest](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/825539dbc6a9fce0e5f950eb595b72a6a8494e3822df1c677c0933e2256199c8/pasted-image-2.jpg)
My team and I worked with the Pinterest Brand team, Susan Kare, and MadeThought to explore expressing the Pinterest brand through the lens of the user’s interests. We built several generations of generative tools using dynamic color extraction, custom GLSL shaders, and Three.js, eventually leading to a major rebrand of Pinterest.
Read more about the final outcome over at Pinterest Design’s Medium blog.
ROLE
Manager, Pinterest ACT
Read more about the final outcome over at Pinterest Design’s Medium blog.
ROLE
Manager, Pinterest ACT
Ren
Side Project2018–2019
![For the second iteration I'm exploring translucent materials to reveal the contents.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b8d371ee761c35c4fffd8318a6eea1121c43d5fb45e2eeb72380726b28955505/ren-1080p.png)
![SImplified exploded view](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e38fc0f937f9f8d7d95cfe1e0fb9e9d96b5b4c8d4be8446735675611122f5bc1/exploded----color-corrected.png)
![Nora's very first bench test](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4067848181d7a2f97f89ffadb51365abd1cc4000698b558b555d755ff78fceaf/R0001277.jpg)
![First version of 'Ren' was a solid RAL 1003 Signal Yellow.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7e2d2e9053b8be67dbebcaa4642334ba7f1f2f11af2f629fb998f33785700a5/yellow-on-yellow---color-corrected.png)
![Credit: Svetlana Gumerova, via Unsplash](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f34c2f95c871fa334b079525589da0661159acd71edad7f1741fc2523d64f4a5/svetlana-gumerova-rcqR29zJ_CI-unsplash.jpg)
![Credit: Sophie Louisnard, via Unsplash](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dff596a96e4932c88a0157b5bbada4b50aa13ce31423172e97ed80746514a79b/sophie-louisnard-ep2j0G_iVqY-unsplash.jpg)
![Credit: Bruno Garcia, via Unsplash](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3960eefc65fb2aa4d9ea74ff326f69ccf5180d591a4c09ba544f5fc0de740e4/bruno-garcia-RDJEYavSQZM-unsplash.jpg)
Exploring what a smart speaker for my toddler daughter Nora might look like. Designed hardware and software and built a fully functional prototype. I’m currently working on the second iteration for Nora’s little sister.
The design is a reference to Centre Pompidou in Paris, which exposes the infrastructure on the outside of the building (and which absolutely blew my mind the first time I saw it).
Based on a Raspberry Pi Zero accessing the Google Assistant API via Python, but with a middle layer that gives me control (as a parent) to moderate use and steer conversations. And most importantly, block all Baby Shark requests.
The design is a reference to Centre Pompidou in Paris, which exposes the infrastructure on the outside of the building (and which absolutely blew my mind the first time I saw it).
Based on a Raspberry Pi Zero accessing the Google Assistant API via Python, but with a middle layer that gives me control (as a parent) to moderate use and steer conversations. And most importantly, block all Baby Shark requests.