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 means 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 including 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/

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