DC163 Interview: John Leavitt On Industrial Design

John Leavitt, Senior Industrial Designer at Intelligent
Product Solutions, joins Timothy Keirnan for a conversation about
industrial design, using two firefighting products as a starting
point. Besides the two case studies, we talk about general design
process and philosophies, methods, education recommendations, and
our ambitions for a world in which UX includes respect for users'
privacy and security as a selling point.


00:00 Introduction
03:30 Design Process
08:06 Self Contained Breathing Apparatus case study
19:45 Fire Truck Inventory Feature case study
36:45 How does John recommend people learn industrial design and
nurture their careers
40:30 Our dream of UX for any product having a main feature of
protecting the user's/customer's privacy and security by
default
48:50 John's favorite design resources


Purism is one company that is making privacy and security of both
software and hardware a primary selling point of their product
designs.


John's employer is at https://intelligentproduct.solutions/


John's contact info is https://www.linkedin.com/in/jleavit/