Solving problems,
that don’t have instructions.

I founded Applied Design as a place to work the way I think: hands-on, curious, and deeply focused on how people interact with the things we build.

I’m an industrial designer by training and a human-factors engineer by practice, but what really drives my work is understanding how materials, mechanics, and perception come together to shape human experience.

Over the past decade, I’ve built everything from ergonomic tools to wearable tactile systems to dynamic compliance surfaces informed by psychophysics. I love projects with ambiguity, where the space isn’t defined yet and the job is to explore, invent, and give form to ideas that don’t exist.

My goal is to produce products that matter, that respect the people who use them, and bring clarity to complicated problems. I tend to work early, finding the opportunity in the problem, shaping the concept, and building the prototypes that make a viable path visible for teams. This mix of ID, HF, and commercialization experience has put me in a position to help teams not just invent things, but move them toward products that solve problems.

— Jason

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