I help startups, inventors, and product teams turn early ideas into distinctive physical products with a clear identity — products that feel intentional, memorable, and built to last beyond short-lived design trends.
My core focus is industrial design and product design. I create products around strong form, proportion, simplicity, detail, materials, and physical experience, with the goal of developing designs that can feel both iconic and timeless. I believe the best products have enough character to be immediately recognizable, but enough restraint to avoid feeling over-designed.
I have 12+ years of experience in industrial design and physical product development. I’ve led design and development work for Meta/Oculus, Tesla, Honeywell, Moen, and Cuisinart, and my work has received multiple international design awards, including Red Dot: Best of the Best.
What I can help with:
• Industrial design and product design
• Concept development and aesthetic direction
• Product form, proportions, and visual refinement
• Product identity and design language
• Product architecture and layout
• CMF: color, material, and finish development
• Ergonomics and physical user experience
• Consumer electronics and enclosure design
• Prototype design and development
• 3D CAD development in Rhino and SolidWorks
• Photorealistic KeyShot visualization
• Design refinement for manufacturing
• DFM and production handoff
Design that goes beyond styling - great industrial design is not decoration applied after the engineering is finished. The form, architecture, interface, materials, construction, and manufacturing strategy all influence one another.
My background is unusually technical for an industrial designer. I understand how components fit together, how products are assembled, how materials and manufacturing processes influence the design, and how decisions made during concept development carry through prototyping and production.
That technical depth supports the design rather than defining it. It allows me to explore ambitious aesthetic directions while understanding the real constraints behind the product and solving around them from the beginning.
My goal is to create products that feel inevitable when they are finished — where the proportions, details, function, materials, and construction come together so naturally that it is difficult to imagine the product looking any other way.
Kendall T. earns an estimated $5.7k/mo. That's 3.9× the typical freelancer and more than 99.61% of everyone we track.
For startups:
I can work as the industrial designer within an existing product-development team or take ownership of a larger portion of the design process.
I regularly collaborate with founders, engineers, prototype vendors, and manufacturers to move products from early concepts through industrial design, refinement, prototyping, and production preparation while protecting the original design intent along the way.
For inventors:
If you have an idea but are unsure how to turn it into a compelling physical product, I can help establish the design direction, identify important constraints, explore concepts, and develop the strongest direction into a tangible and manufacturable product.
Early projects can begin with a focused concept or feasibility phase to establish the product architecture and design direction before committing to full development.
How I work:
• Establish a strong design direction before over-investing in detail
• Explore form, proportion, architecture, and product character together
• High-quality iteration rather than endless low-value variations
• Resolve small details with the same care as the overall concept
• Design around real manufacturing constraints without letting them dictate the aesthetic
• Direct collaboration with founders and product teams
• Carry the original design intent through prototyping and production
Most full product-design engagements are structured as fixed-price milestones based on scope and deliverables. Smaller concept development, industrial design, CAD, prototype, and design-review phases are also available.
Best-fit projects are those where industrial design is a meaningful part of the product’s success — where appearance, physical experience, usability, detail, and product identity matter as much as simply making something function.
I am particularly well suited to products that need a strong, differentiated design language rather than a generic enclosure around a set of components. The goal is something distinctive enough to be remembered, simple enough to remain relevant, and technically resolved enough to become a real manufactured product.
When reaching out, please include:
• What the product is
• Who it is intended for
• Its current stage: idea, sketch, prototype, or production
• Any existing sketches, CAD, prototypes, or technical requirements
• Your approximate development budget
I’ll review the project and recommend the most practical next step.