Lenovo
Industrial Designer • Leadership, Managing Design Programs, Ideation, Communication
I most recently worked as an Industrial Designer on the ThinkSmart team at Lenovo. My role included managing and leading multiple projects for the ThinkSmart group, and acting as liason between our team and the product/engineering and exec team. I also took on a role mentoring junior designers and interns on my team.
Duration
3 years
Role responsibilities
Leadership
Ideation & design
Design quality control
Facilitate collaboration with cross functionals
Collaborators
Engineering
PM team
Exec team
Design leadership
Ideation and conceptual work
I honed my ideation skills in my role at Lenovo. I have a passion for rapid idea generation, working with trademark speed visualizing these concepts to share with my team and various stakeholders.
ThinkReality VRX
I delved into the unique ways we could showcase our VR technology with a sophisticated and mature aesthetic fitting into the Lenovo design language.
Seamless pane
Our final production design was more refined than some of the concepualt ideas but borrowed heavily from the general themes explored in the ideation phase.
Our team wanted to create the feeling of the user peering through a thin pane of seamless glass, taking great inspiration from even my earliest sketches.
Collaboration and Leadership
My main responsibility as a designer at Lenovo was communicating with the various cross-functionals including our product management, development, and executive teams. I was in charge of managing and tracking important product requirements and goals and coordinating to make sure all teams were aligned at each product gate.
ThinkSmart Family
Thinksmart is an mature product category for an iconic product created primarily for a B2B environment. I led design efforts on ThinkSmart products including ThinkSmart Hub and the Core kit.
Identifying my product team, development, and executive teams needs and coordinating communication and work between these groups was core to my responsibilities while working with this team.
ThinkSmart One
Thinksmart OneBar is an all-in-one video and audio conferencing solution for B2B customers. I collaborated closely with our engineering and product team to track design quality control deliverables.
ThinkSmart Core Kit
I led the design for the next generation Core Kit, an all-in-one conferencing solution including a speaker, compute box, controller and 3d camera design.
Core 3d camera
I managed a cobranding project with our partner, Jabra and helped define and communicatea the color, material and finish implementation on our partner product. My responsibilities included coordinating directly with our partners team.