NVIDIA Design Garage

Design Garage was a demo application designed to show off the power of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 400 series of graphic processors. Car enthusiasts and 3D designers can use this app to quickly set up and customize photo-realistic renderings of some of the most distinguished autos. We designed the interaction to be minimal, and the UI to be collapsible, so as to keep focus on the high quality models and scenes.

I was partnered one-on-one with a developer for this project and produced flows, specifications and final visual assets.

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Summary of my activities

  • Lead interaction design
  • Information architecture
  • Flows & wireframes
  • Visual design
  • Specs & guidelines

NVIDIA Optimus

NVIDIA Optimus technology maximizes the battery life on a notebook by automatically switching off the GPU (graphics processing unit) off when it is not needed and switching it on when needed again. The technology requires no user interaction, so all of these changes happen seamlessly without interrupting normal activities. Indicators and a settings panel are available for those who want an indication when the GPU is being turned on or off.

In addition to creating the control panel settings experience and the windows task bar flyout/notification icon experience, I designed the branding icon used in the NVIDIA Optimus badge.

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Summary of my activities

  • Icon design
  • Flow diagramming
  • Visual design
  • Specifications

Tegra Netbook OS Demo

I created the look and feel and behavioral style for a custom netbook OS demo. The goal was to showcase 3D UI features of a Tegra-driven netbook GUI.

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Summary of my activities

  • Interaction design
  • Visual design
  • Icon design
  • Specifications