I am responsible for hiring and growing a diversely talented design team to define the user experience for a new wearable software and hardware platform, including its operating system and design system.

Key challenges

Build a vision and narrative for a pre-launch hardware product, and work across the Reality Labs portfolio of products (including Quest, Ray-Ban Stories, and other hardware products) to articulate the long-term vision of how it fits into the Metaverse as a way to stay connected to those that matter most.

Lead a team to create scalable and flexible frameworks that support multiple generations of new hardware products, elevating the quality, coherence of our product while identifying ways to differentiate them.

In addition to supporting a solid design team, contribute to building a growing design culture at Reality Labs, investing in people and processes at the product and org level to create a positive, collaborative and inspired workplace for design and cross-functional teams.

* Detailed work is confidential and actual product design work not shown.

What’s next in the Metaverse

The new product I lead (confidential) is a new hardware product that connects with other Meta devices to offer a novel ecosystem for how to stay connected to family and friends when on the go.

Determining the “what”

Much of the team’s early work has been to understand what types of scenarios and use cases today’s digital platforms underserve and how we can create products that fill those gaps.

Designing and iterating in stealth

Perhaps the biggest challenge of a pre-launch product is working in stealth. My team is responsible for every flow and pixel of the core operating system and design system. We test and validate our ideas by building out robust working prototypes (on real hardware) that we release to hundreds of internal employees and their trusted partners to give us feedback iterate on the product optimizing for both usability and performance, considering the technical constraints of the product.

Details not shown due to confidentiality.