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– Product and UX Leader – From my beginnings at Apple, to a hit consumer Mac app and Apple Design Award, to a NY Times feature and O'Reilly Media Award for pioneering social/visual collaboration software, to top-tier startups funded by the likes of Benchmark and General Catalyst, I'm a product and experience leader who has built a career on consistently generating business value and inspiring excellence in those around me.– Startups Summary – ✦ Veriskope | B2B2C Video Commerce, B2B Streaming Media Server | Bootstrapped ✦ Laszlo Systems | B2B2C Messaging, Pioneering UI Animation | General Catalyst | Exit: Critical Path ✦ LucidEra | B2B SaaS Data Analytics | Benchmark | Exit: Pentaho✦ Karelia | Consumer Productivity | Apple Design Award for Innovation | Bootstrapped | Exit: Sun Microsystems ✦ UserCreations | Consumer Infinite Canvases | O'Reilly Media Award for Innovation, NY Times Feature | Bootstrapped– What's New –In 2024, I'm active in 2 spaces:/ AI in Visual Computing and Conversational SystemsBuilding off of intensive study from 2018+, including a computational interaction summer school, I'm actively exploring:1) Computational approaches for adapting, editing, generating, and evaluating images, UIs, data visualizations, videos, and 3D objects or scenes using the 2 primary computation paradigms: learning and optimization.2) Conversational systems that attend to both the social nature of the interaction and the content of a task. Researchers call these systems socio-conversational./ Displays × GraphicsWith a career-long passion for how advances in displays can catalyze advances in user experiences, I'm working at this vital intersection via Display-Adaptive which I founded. High Dynamic Range and Wide Color Gamuts are an active area, especially the use of HDR Quality/Difference Metrics/Models. Finally, my passion for advanced visualization has me prototyping a "Google Maps for Color and Light".
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Product Leader (Computer Graphics And Displays)Display-AdaptiveUnited States
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Product Leader (Computer Graphics And Displays)Display-Adaptive Jul 2022 - PresentDeveloped deep expertise in image and video quality/visibility metrics with applications in video streaming, display specification and design, visual comparison of results, and perceptually-guided quality optimization. These state-of-the-art metrics are chromatic spatiotemporal and explainable (e.g. through novel visualizations).Hands-on leader of a team on an applied research project at the intersection of graphics/gaming and displays:For the project, built a team consisting of Bjorn Ottosson (invented OKLab perceptual color space, veteran gaming engineer), Rafał Mantiuk (HDR Imaging pioneer, Cambridge University), Guido Bordanaro (gameplay expert), and myself. Starting with Rafal's HDR Quality/Difference metrics research, we extended that research through software improvements and additional metric calibration through pairwise comparison experimentation.Consequently, founded Display-Adaptive: specializing in applied research at the intersection of computer graphics and display technology, including in-house applied R&D on Google Maps for Color and Light. -
Product Leadership Consulting And Functional Education In Applied AiIndependent Mar 2017 - PresentConcurrent with my work on video products (Veriskope) and displays × graphics (Display-Adaptive), I'm actively exploring computational approaches for adapting, editing, generating, and evaluating images, UIs, data visualizations, videos, and 3D objects or scenes using the 2 primary computation paradigms: learning and optimization.The docs linked below offer summaries of my experience, research, thinking etc:Google Doc with Contemporary Thinkinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1ye21ebwh6XyAnf_Bi5TxXa3hLXCVSAafyMc_Pa_fM8g/edit?usp=sharingEmerging Experiences: 2019 Edition. A summary of my scouting the experience frontiers in 2018-19https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oFr39NpgW4gQd5dhAjY_X5fjO-zayaf8/viewResearchers that have influenced me here include Emily Bender (information access, Univ. of Washington), Antti Oulasvirta (computational interaction, Aalto Univ.), Jeffrey Heer (predictive interaction in data viz, Univ. of Washington), Michael J Black (human-scene interaction, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems), Daniel Sýkora (CG and Interaction, Czech Technical Univ. in Prague), Phillip Isola (computer vision, MIT), and Bret Victor (Dynamicland.org).To give back to my communities, I teach what I've learned through case studies and public presentations like these below:Real-World AI UI Design Challengeshttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/real-world-ai-ui-design-challenge-robb-beal/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/machine-learning-experience-design-challenge-innovative-robb-beal/2020 Talk on Computational Design in NYChttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/robbbeal_uxdata-computation-as-your-experience-design-activity-6629407359536029696-J5hY/2019 Talk on Computational Design in St. Louishttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6522156927768686592
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Video Products Leadership (Streaming, Conferencing)Veriskope Jan 2020 - Nov 2023Played a product leadership role with video innovations startup Veriskope across live streaming (all major use cases) and conferencing (live video shopping) where the technology bases were Adobe Media Server and Twilio Video, respectively.✦ Led a world-wide product team that coincidently developed 3 video products/services.✦ Led effort to provide additional life to 30+ Flash/Flex customer apps. Included considerable sales engineering responsibility.✦ Led a follow-on project to convert a 3-D Bible Visualization app from Flash to Unity targeting tablet devices. Led the touch interaction design and dev among many other aspects of the project.See my related work on video quality/difference metrics for streaming at Display-Adaptive.
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Product Leadership (Inc 5000 Edtech)The Booksource Mar 2016 - Mar 2017Hazelwood, Missouri, UsExec-level Product Management with a Strong UX Emphasis in EdTech and E Commerce✦ Led a team that rehabbed/reinvented the user experience of an extensive educator- and student-facing web app, in a market/domain I was new to, with a small team that had never worked together before, half of which were new to the company, in about 75 working days, with super-high quality. 30% YOY MAU growth from the redesign.✦ Authored and evangelized a comprehensive vision for a unified experience that brought together a large number of disparate apps and services. -
Product Leadership (Fortune 500 E-Commerce)Graybar Mar 2014 - Mar 2016St. Louis, Missouri, UsPlayed a Senior Director-level Product Leadership role across a variety of initiativesIn one initiative, led product strategy for a significant project to add B2B functionality (including regional product availability, complex fulfillment, and personalized pricing) to a B2C-only online store which formerly had 1-size-for-all availability, fulfillment, and pricing. Project also included a complete rethinking of the checkout experience. See the case study here: https://www.linkedin.com/ pulse/how-works-digital-design-background-case-study-robb-beal -
Product LeadershipLeading St. Louis Companies May 2011 - Dec 2013Product Management and Design on a consulting basis for leading companies, primarily St. Louis based.✦ Desktop Web App Design and Product Mgt with a strong emphasis on data viz (Evolve24)✦ Tablet/Touch Web App Design and Product Mgt with an emphasis on extreme interactivity through touch controls and gestures (Monsanto). See my screencast describing the prototyping I led and a screenshot of the final product in the attachments.✦ Smartphone/Touch Mobile Web App Design and Product Mgt with an emphasis on offline capability and animation. (Ungerboeck).During that same time frame:Game Day Chat Sports Startup Product and Company Dev (Founder, 2nd and Short)
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Global Product Leadership/Sales Engineering (Ux Product Startup, Exit To Critical Path)Laszlo Systems Nov 2006 - May 2011San Mateo, California, UsExecutive-level contributor to the Laszlo Sales organization—think of this as a Global, Director-level Field Product role. Product Management and Design for a highly-customizable Converged Communications Suite sold to Cable and Telecom customers. ✦ Evangelized the benefits of great user experience to C-level executives✦ Product managed the functional and design customizations for each customer ✦ Learned the principles of animated UX from pioneer designers in the field✦ Prototype design/development with partners and prospects -
Director, Product (Exit To Pentaho)Lucidera Sep 2005 - Oct 2006UsIn a year-long sprint to v1.0, as the sole designer, directed user experience for a web-based data analytics application with desktop app-like sophistication and interaction complexity. (The app was Tableau-like.)Pentaho describing the acquisition: "The acquired technology, developed originally by LucidEra and known as “Clearview,” provides intuitive, sexy, web-based interactive analytical reporting and analysis to let non-technical business users quickly understand business information." -
Senior Product Designer (Scottrade, Charter Communications)Perficient Aug 2004 - Aug 2005St Louis, Mo 63141, Mo, Us✦ Design Lead for Large-scale (millions of users) Web Application Redesign for Scottrade.com Consumer Trading App✦ Design Lead for Large-scale (millions of users) Webmail Redesign for Charter Communications -
Founder And Head Of ProductUsercreations May 2002 - Jul 2004"What Spring does is what we wish Apple had been bold enough to do with OS X, and make a really radical departure from the 2D file/folder office automation metaphor of the 1970s into a more loosely structured and spontaneous UI more appropriate to an always-connected world." —Andrew Orlowski, The RegisterFounder of this pioneering social infinite canvas start-up. Its primary product was Spring which I envisioned and designed. I hired a remote engineering team and collaborated with them to build it.✦ It was Social Software and Social Objects before these terms were coined.✦ It was minimalist, content-centric UI long before that trend even began.✦ It had a super-simple UI metaphor for providing personalization and sharing while respecting privacy. Contrast with Facebook's inscrutable privacy UI.✦ There was even a Social Object standard that would remind you of the Open Graph protocol.All of these things were super-instinctual to me as I designed it.Spring won an O'Reilly Mac OS X Innovators award and was featured in the New York Times.
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Product Leadership (Exit To Sun Microsystems)Karelia Jan 2002 - Jun 2002Member of 2 person team that made Watson one of the best-selling commercial consumer apps in its price range.✦ Led Product Management, Marketing, and UX.✦ Generated /hundreds of thousands of dollars revenue in 6 months/—this was breakthrough sales for an OS X app at the time.✦ Won both a Most Innovative Apple Design Award and Macworld Magazine Editors' Choice Award for Best Productivity Utility.✦ As UX lead, dramatically enhanced Watson's visual and functional user experience. Created UI consistency among the (then) 16 disparate tools.Apple chose to bundle a competitive product with OS X. It was announced in May 2002, so I chose to productize Spring and form UserCreations.
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Sales EngineerApple Computers May 2000 - Dec 2001Provided world-class technical pre-sales support to Apple Professional Services prospective customers. Achieved extremely high success rates closing those prospective customers.One significant project included conceiving, building, and managing a world-class demo app supporting a nationwide seminar series (10 cities) for a leading web application server product (WebObjects 5).
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