David

Field notes, on the move.

One of Leica's 100 Photographers.

A humbling place to land for someone who mostly likes to walk slowly and look. The frames below are the ones that stayed with me — where the light was doing something I couldn't have planned.

At Electrolux I led interaction design across the connected portfolio — setting the Smart Home UX direction and building universal interaction models that held across product categories and brands. The principle was “learn one, know all”: consistent mental models and interactions everywhere, so a new product never meant relearning how to use it — and hardware and software components could be reused across the range instead of rebuilt each time.

Patents were an adjacent result — several filed so far, with more on the way as they roll out across markets. Four are public: a proximity-aware adaptive display, user recognition with personalised preferences, a safety mode that flags unauthorised users, and a swipe-to-set control for choosing a time or range in a single gesture. But the urge to make things never left.

Every photograph and its sonic double — on the biggest screen in your home.

The Apple TV app pairs each photo with the track that resonates with it, and projects the two together on your television. It's a separate app that shows the Echoes you sync from your phone, so it needs the iPhone beta first. Join the iPhone 2.0 beta ↗, sign into iCloud and save a few Echoes, then install the Apple TV beta ↗ on the same account — they appear on your TV automatically.