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1. 2019Calm’s standalone Apple Watch app for watchOS 6: sessions stored on the watch, background audio, and breathing paced by haptics. Apple used it in the WWDC 2019 Platforms State of the Union and the SwiftUI on watchOS session.
2. 2020Calm’s iPhone app on Apple silicon Macs. It led the Mac App Store’s “iPhone and iPad Apps, Now on Mac” feature.
3. 2021Calm’s App Clip.

• WWDC 2019 Platforms State of the Union, the Calm segment
• WWDC 2019, SwiftUI on watchOS

Reorder your usual with one tap from your wrist. I built it in Swift alongside the existing Objective-C app, with time in Cupertino working with Apple before launch, and it was in the store the day Apple Watch launched.

Apple engineers used it in the WWDC 2015 session “Apple Watch Design Tips and Tricks” as an example of touch target design.

• WWDC 2015, Apple Watch Design Tips and Tricks
• Mashable on the launch

Nearly 3,000 restaurants from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Barefoot Contessa and more, by city, chef or show, with road-trip planning. A universal app, and one of the first big brand apps built on Parse.

I led its development. It won the Webby Award for Best Lifestyle App, Apple featured it on the App Store, and I spoke about building it at the App Developers Conference.

• The Webby Award
• My ADC 2013 talk
• Adweek on the launch

Senstream’s ring records research-grade biosignals (PPG, ECG, EDA, motion and temperature) outside the lab. BIOPAC Systems distributes it worldwide and connects it to its AcqKnowledge software.

I built the whole software stack: apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro, live processing of high-frequency signals over Bluetooth, the web app, and the backend and database behind them.

• senstream.com
• The Research Ring at BIOPAC
• BIOPAC’s “Lab on a Finger” webinar
• Senstream on the App Store

Kids draw, animate and narrate their own cartoons. Launchpad Toys built it with research from Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, and I built the iPad app. Kids made more than 14 million cartoons in over 200 countries.

Apple showed it in a WWDC keynote and inducted it into the App Store Hall of Fame. Google later acquired Launchpad Toys and relaunched it as Toontastic 3D.

• 9to5Google on Google acquiring Launchpad Toys
• TechCrunch on Toontastic 3D

I led the architecture and development of the in-app storefront in Zinio’s iPad and iPhone apps, bringing recurring iTunes subscriptions to its magazines as the apps passed a million active iOS readers.

zulily’s first iOS app: daily deals for moms, babies and kids. I designed and built it, then kept working with zulily on the app and on training its in-house iOS developers as the company grew toward its IPO.

Prints of your square photos, ordered from your iPhone, from the team behind Hipstamatic. Apple featured it with a banner on the App Store.

A community for DIY crafts, with how-to videos, in-app video creation and real-time chat. I took it from first sketch to the App Store in under two months, then kept adding to it as it grew, and Apple featured it in New Apps We Love.

Darby Smart raised a $6.3M Series A and was later acquired by Grove Collaborative.

• TechCrunch on the Series A