Product Designer — XR & Spatial Interfaces
I design the systems that make spatial computing feel native — the interaction patterns, interface primitives, and experience frameworks that define how people inhabit new kinds of screens.
Most recently at Snap Inc., I led UX for core system features and interaction models on Spectacles — shaping the foundational patterns through which users navigate, interact with, and understand AR space. That work spanned system UI architecture, spatial affordance design, and first-party experiences that pushed the boundaries of what wearable computing can feel like.
My work is backed by 8 US patents in XR and spatial computing — not as a measure of novelty, but as evidence of a consistent investment in solving problems that don't have precedents yet.
Spectacles had no consistent spatial UI primitive — every moveable panel was solved ad hoc. I designed the Container: a frame that wraps UI elements and makes them moveable in AR space. It became the foundation for all system UI on Spectacles.
View case study →The original cursor rendered at a fixed depth and jumped abruptly when hitting UI — users couldn't build a mental model for how targeting worked. I redesigned the cursor, introduced a ray, and defined a depth constraint system. Validated with a controlled prototype study: 3x more successful hits.
View case study →
Image: Snap for Developers
Redesigned the system-level multiplayer UX on Spectacles — moving colocated session discovery from a per-experience feature to a platform capability. Users can now find and join active nearby sessions across all experiences from a dedicated Multiplayer tab in Lens Explorer, with a guided colocation flow to establish a shared coordinate space.
Designed the phone-to-glasses casting experience for Spectacles — spring-based soft-follow behavior, world and body anchoring, and a sticky FoV implementation that keeps cast content within the user's view.
Apple reached out to Snap ahead of the iPhone 12 launch. I led the design of the first LiDAR AR experience on Snapchat, solving a 3–5 second initialization constraint through interaction design. Featured on the Apple keynote — 61 million YouTube views.
View case study →Led design and production of the full slate of AR experiences for the Spectacles 2021 launch — coordinating prototyping, 3D, VFX, and engineering. Shipped every committed experience on schedule.
Designed AR experiences built on a depth map, stereo camera, and IMU pipeline — enabling surface-aware occlusion, motion-reactive characters, and a fully realized underwater world with caustics and procedural coral.
Ran the end-to-end production pipeline for Snapchat's 1st party face AR experiences — from stats-driven concept selection through 3D/VFX review, engineering handoff, QA, and ship.
Led visual design, UI direction, and animation across interactive game titles — serving as both team leader and the sole animator, from concept through delivery.
8 US patents, all issued or pending during my time at Snap Inc.