OpenSourceEmpathy — Design for Humans, Not Just Users.

A multidisciplinary studio spanning concept, product, visual and installation design — built on the conviction that the best design starts by understanding the person it's for.

Past Projects

Concept Development

This is where ideas get to be ideas before the world has decided what they are yet. Work that earns its existence by asking the question before the industry knew to ask it.

Screenshots of a mobile app interface for customizing a trigger-based sound scene, showing options to select content, set world volume, and choose a location on a map.
Screenshots of a mobile app interface for customizing a trigger-based sound scene, showing options to select content, set world volume, and choose a location on a map.

Patterns
Personalized Audio for your diverse life
Bose

A split-screen showing a digital device tutorial on the left with dark background and instructional text about capturing moments with Bose, and a mobile app interface on the right with a photo of central park and details about a yoga scene, devices, location, and playlist tracks.
A split-screen showing a digital device tutorial on the left with dark background and instructional text about capturing moments with Bose, and a mobile app interface on the right with a photo of central park and details about a yoga scene, devices, location, and playlist tracks.

Alfred
A 4-month co-working project to imagine a fully connected audio product ecosystem
Bose

Three smartphone screens showing a travel app. The first screen displays options for 'Snooze All' and 'Map View' with categories for nearby attractions, events, and concerts. The second screen shows a similar interface with a black 'Un-snooze All' button and the same categories. The third screen presents a map with nearby pins and a list of three nearby locations: Oberon, Drink, and Trillium Brewery, with distances listed.
Three smartphone screens showing a travel app. The first screen displays options for 'Snooze All' and 'Map View' with categories for nearby attractions, events, and concerts. The second screen shows a similar interface with a black 'Un-snooze All' button and the same categories. The third screen presents a map with nearby pins and a list of three nearby locations: Oberon, Drink, and Trillium Brewery, with distances listed.

AR Content Discovery On-boarding
An onboarding experience designed around discovery over instruction, and wonder over walkthroughs
Bose

A man in glasses in a checkered shirt sitting at a desk, writing on a tablet with a stylus. In the background, whiteboards with handwritten notes, diagrams, and sketches of earphones are visible.

Gemini
Gestural & voice UI for wearables
Bose

A black and white comic-style sketch featuring people, with notes about fitness and focus. Included are a woman with short hair working out, another woman with headphones, and some sketches of people using gym equipment with annotations about workout modes and noise cancellation.

Headphones 2.0
Concepts & animatics for future wearables
Bose

The image is a visual quiz titled "Visualizing Faces" with a handwritten style. It features a dark gray background with colorful hexagon icons representing different music genres: "Chill 70's Funk," "Energetic 80's Metal," "Paranoid 90's Grunge," and others. Each hexagon has an icon related to the genre, such as sunglasses, a guitar, and a guitar amp.

Music Taste Profiling
Identification and visualization, and productization of music taste
Bose

A minimalist sketch of a table with a glass, a candle, and a plate, with orange circular lines around the glass, all drawn with black lines on a white background.

Beside Sleep Product Intervention
Concept video for a product day in the life
Bose

A drawing of a carnival or amusement park scene with a large Ferris wheel in the background, a crowd of smiling people, and a performer in costume. The scene is lively and colorful with a blue sky and clouds.

Disney + Bose AR
A storybook detailing Augmented Reality experiences within Disney parks
Bose / Disney

AR Workshop Design & Facilitation
This is where the room becomes the medium — structured enough to create safety, loose enough to let surprise in
Bose

Product Design

This is where things get real — shipped, used, and lived with by actual humans. If the Concept Design section is about asking "what if," this section is about answering "okay, but how." Hardware, software, and the space between — work shipped for Bose, Philips, and Microsoft.

Screenshot of the Bose app interface displaying settings for Bose QC Ultra Earbuds, including mode options such as Quiet, Aware, and Immersion, with additional features like Noise Control, ActiveSense, Immersive Audio, EQ, Shortcut, Tips, and energy level indicators for left and right earbuds.
Screenshot of the Bose app interface displaying settings for Bose QC Ultra Earbuds, including mode options such as Quiet, Aware, and Immersion, with additional features like Noise Control, ActiveSense, Immersive Audio, EQ, Shortcut, Tips, and energy level indicators for left and right earbuds.

Audio Wearable Modes & ActiveSense
An onboarding experience designed around discovery over instruction, and wonder over walkthroughs
Bose

Comparison chart of Sonos speaker models showing connection status and design features, with a collage of various music streaming app interfaces.
Comparison chart of Sonos speaker models showing connection status and design features, with a collage of various music streaming app interfaces.

SoundTouch Mobile App
Steering a historically-hardware-focused organization into an investment in user-facing software
Bose

A screenshot of a digital reading app displaying a passage from "Alice in Wonderland", with highlighted text and annotation options visible at the bottom of the app.
A screenshot of a digital reading app displaying a passage from "Alice in Wonderland", with highlighted text and annotation options visible at the bottom of the app.

Annotorious
A mobile design for a socially collaborative annotation app for the MIT Hyperstudio
MIT

Kansas City Chiefs Games
Digital/Physical interactive games to help promote physical and mental wellness
Kansas City Chiefs / WGBH

Three black Bose smart speakers with rounded edges on a black background, one with a handle.

Smart Speaker
Lead UX and IxD for an ecosystem VPA-enabled (Amazon and Google) speaker
Bose

Martha Speaks Games
Interactive educational games to build oral vocabulary for kids age 4-6 years old
WGBH / PBS

Design Squad Nation
A social collaboration platform for kids to share and evolve their design and engineering ideas
WGBH

Black silhouettes of two women wearing glasses, one seen from above and the other in profile with a blue background

Augmented Reality Wearable Guidelines
Documentation of tech specs, interactive design patterns, and branding for the Bose Audio Augment Reality platform
Bose

A collage of various electronic devices and a close-up of a man yelling or angry, with some music and content interfaces displayed.

Multi-modal System Design System Guidelines
A researched and documented framework for designing multi-modal product ecosystems
Bose

Close-up of a person with dark hair with light highlights, lying down with eyes closed, wearing a white hearing aid in their right ear.

Sleepbuds
UX and interaction design for a connected sleep wearable and mobile app
Bose

Coffee brewing machine interface with options for coffee type, strength, temperature, shots, froth type, milk type, fill level, and activation button.

Home Barista UX
Designing and prototyping UX/UI for a new coffee/espresso product
Shark / Ninja

Visual Design

Visual design is where form learns to speak — through shape, color, movement, and the quiet authority of a well-chosen typeface. This section holds the work that lives on the surface but operates underneath it: graphic design, brand identity, and motion that gives ideas a face worth remembering.

The Clark Economic Impact
A video and set of infographics to promote the local economic impact of investments at the museum
The Clark Art Institute

St. Lucia Festival Visual Branding
A motion and graphic branding exercise for the jazz and arts festival
St. Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival

Bowling Alley Photo Essay
A personal reflection on a local Massachusetts bowling alley through B&W photography
OpenSourceEmpathy

Glow Power Live Visuals
Visuals to support my buddy Jeff Bartell’s solo music project during live performances
Glow Power

A collage of skincare and beauty products with close-up shots of a woman applying cream and a woman with clear skin, along with images of skincare ingredients and product packaging.

Beauty/Tech Product Visual Language
A collaboration with an in-house team to explore visual languages for a innovative Beauty and Tech product
Shark / Ninja

Revolt 45
A Graphic Design exploration series inspired by my distaste for our 45th president
OpenSourceEmpathy

Live Motion for DJ’s
Designing motion for the floor means building visuals that breathe with the music — reactive, looping, and alive.
OpenSourceEmpathy

Brands Supported

Black text reading 'BOSE' in a stylized font on a gray background.
Logo with a stylized building and the word "UNESCO" beneath it.
Black and white graphic with the words "THE CLARK" in bold uppercase letters, stacked with "THE" on top and "CLARK" below.
The text 'Shark' in bold black font on the left, divided by a vertical line from the word 'NINJA' in stylized black font on the right.
Black and white PBS logo with a skull icon and the letters 'PBS'.
Bar graph with multiple vertical bars in burgundy and one in gray, representing different data values.
Black and white New Balance logo with stylized letter B and the words 'new balance' underneath.
The Spotify logo, a green circle with three curved white lines inside, next to the green text 'Spotify' with a registered trademark symbol.
Microsoft logo with a four-colored square and the word 'Microsoft' in gray text.
A white background with the word 'PHILIPS' written in large blue letters at the bottom.
The image features the purple and white logo of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Black Disney logo on a white background.