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Product Summary NVIDIA Surround immerses gamers in 3D content that spans multiple monitors.
My Role: Lead User Experience Designer
- Identify and overcome complex technical limitations in collaboration with the engineering teams
- Present product experience to NVIDIA Software VPs and other senior stakeholders, gather and respond to feedback
- Build pixel-perfect prototypes for user studies and internal feedback
- Annotate and observe usability studies, apply findings to improve product
- Serve as domain expert for interviews by technical writers on product features and functionality
- Drive consensus across marketing, engineering, and user experience teams
- Advocate for the end user with engineering teams so as to triage user experience bugs higher
- Author detailed software specifications for engineering teams
- Design and spec all user-facing software interfaces
- Learn and conform to Windows user interface standards
- Identify and drive bugs to the engineering teams
Achievements & Innovations
- Invent “bezel peeking” feature that allows users to see behind the display bezel without a mode set
- Strong positive reviews by HardOCP and other enthusiast sites (see review comments above)
- Design an industry-leading setup wizard (see review comments above)
- Designed instructive graphics to guide users through the complex process of hot-swapping monitors into Surround configurations
- Designed calibration images to elucidate and simplify end-user bezel correction