Hired on as a Sr Design Prototyper at D-Ford, I help ideate and create concepts with a very diverse and talented user experience team. We focus on a lot of ideas around vehicle experiences and services. Since D-Ford is part of Ford’s EPLM division, we also work and partner with other businesses to help them empathize with their customers and help them create better experiences.
Much of our work revolves around co-creating ideas in BlueScape/Figma/Miro, but we also try to build out our concepts digitally and physically to help us understand unforeseen issues and needs. I’ve helped train team members, create APIs, develop interactive web experiences, videos, animations, and augmented/virtual reality experiences for the team and for research. I create videos of all of our prototypes to help share experiences and how I setup the prototypes with other team members.
Web Based Prototyping
I also constantly learn new tools and share what I’ve learned with the team. The following sample was me showing my team the augmented reality workflow I was using to create some of my concepts, while we were asked to work from home. I primarily use Maya, and Unity for most of my AR and VR prototypes.
Augmented Reality Prototyping
We looked for all kinds of AR tools to help us with our workflow and we started playing around a bit with Enklu for quick concepting. I really enjoy making quick prototypes with AR and VR technologies! It allows you to quickly transform your home or any environment into a whole new location with infinite possibilities!
