Industrial Design

I took some industrial design and furniture design classes while seeking my degree, and have used these skills a little bit. If you need someone who can understand how digital integrates with hardware, who understands the hardware layer of technology and networking, and can read and interpret communication protocols, I may be your man.

A brief summary of some of what I have done:

  • Coordinate with mobile telecom SEBU (subscriber equipment), provide graphics and coordinate on colors, functions of softkeys, etc

  • Created style guides for vendors to modify their hardware (such as key functions, labelling) to comply with carrier requirements

  • e reader prototyping and design, multiple versions, including creating shop samples from wood

  • wearable overall design assistance to coordinate with

  • Created or consulted on packaging design and instructions for several different products including electronics, construction supplies, and benefits documentation.

  • incited the mini device… found and connected engineers to the right org to start selling a simpler, wireless-only device of 1/10th the volume of the previous models, and 1/4 the cost

  • stickers for devices, improvements that helped identify the device in

  • Created designs for overlays, and determined button/light placement – with tradeoffs to meet existing BOM – on electrical system control panels including generators and transfer switches.

  • Selected colors that coordinated well for different physical materials. For example, on-screen, ink, paint, and molded plastic are in four different color spaces; there’s no such thing as a color that looks the same in all four of those so had to create a scheme that used specifically different but complimentary colors for each instead.

  • Created color conversions from SAE lighting standards, set up for transparency, to printed inks and on-screen display.

Steven Hoober