Hi I’m Austin!
I love to adventures and have a passion for the outdoors. Some of my favorite things are: escaping to the mountains for swimming, fishing, hiking, camping and photography and offroading.
When I’m not outside I’m inside designing. I have a deep appreciation for how the human mind extrapolates and implements data to solve big problems. Form and function, I believe if done in parallel during a design process should be married and complement each other thus creating a harmonious blend of attributes that generate more evolved designs overtime.
Industrial Designer w/ focus in Product Design
When starting a project sketching is a primary skill which I’ve enjoyed ever since I was young and has always been a way for me to wrap my head around a project to communicate the form and function. I tend to use old school techniques combined with state of the art tools to help transfer knowledge and make it real for clients and colleagues to critique and contribute to the design process. In turn, this collaborative effort leads to a design that all parties can be confident that it meets all requirements to function in the real world while also being appealing to the end user. Beauty is the hybridization of form and function, without one you cannot have the other. Finding the balance can always be difficult when juggling cost, use-case, material choice, packaging, over head and how the product is disposed of or material salvaged for future product lineages. These are the important things that need to be figured out early in the development of a great product and is a prime reason to have an Industrial Designer on your team.
Empathetic designer
10 years SolidWorks, Eye for aesthetics, CMF, Keyshot expert
Expert with product lineages, Design language
Integrates design concepts well with team goals
Creative critical thinker
Experience w/ overseas manufacturing, First Article Reports, Production Prototyping
Here's the links to my previous jobs just to give you an idea of my roots. Most recent is the top.
DT Engineering Associates, Inc.- Industrial Designer / Mechanical Designer
JDID - Product Development
Schmitt Design LLC - Industrial Designer and Fabricator