# Stephen Garland > Product Design Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephengarland ## Work Experience ### Director of Product Design @ Parsley AI Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Human centered design for AI. ### Principal Designer, Founder @ ATOM Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States My personal product design shop for Bay Area clients. My focus is on human centered design for AI companies and holistic user experience design for connected devices. ### Director, Product & Design @ lululemon Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California ### VP, Product Design @ lululemon Studio (MIRROR) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California Our team creates user centered fitness experiences across the lululemon Studio ecosystem. We define product requirements, design the experiences, and collaborate with engineering and business teams to ship new features to members. ### Head of Product Design @ lululemon Studio (MIRROR) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California ### Design Director @ Brava Home Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area At Brava I combine UX with product design, to make our connected oven and mobile app feel like one cohesive, easy to use product. ### Design Lead, User Experience @ Brava Home Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Experience Designer @ EchoUser Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California Senior designer on client accounts ranging from early tech startups to Fortune 15 and Fortune 50 Bay Area companies including Apple. Responsible for initial concepts, storyboards, wireframes, high fidelity mockups, working prototypes, and final asset delivery. In the projects I had the opportunity to be part of, I collaborated closely with client side engineering teams to realize scalable designs for global user audiences. ### Contract Designer @ Owl Labs Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Contract position developing out of box experience for novel camera hardware. ### Senior Designer @ 3D Robotics Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, California Solo was the first consumer level drone sold in Best Buy, and was featured in SF MoMA’s Designed in California exhibit. Lead UI/UX designer on Solo Controller (Screen experience and hardware interaction.) Out of box experience lead: Original design spec production and contractor management. ### Designer @ Sifteo Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, California My focus was twofold: creating mockups of product concepts and conducting user research to better understand what real people wanted from these ideas and concepts in their lives. Design role: Concept sketching and rendering, SolidWorks modeling, model making. User research role: Documentation of user research process and goals, and evaluation of research outcomes with team to better understand concept improvement. As much as possible, I push myself to see concepts as the user sees them, not as the designer. -And I love the process of finding what works for people. ### Intern @ Sifteo Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, California ### Graduate Student at the Entertainment Technology Center @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ETC client project experience: (For Korea 2012 world expo committee, and NEC Japan.) I was a designer and team lead on a large scale crowd LED-ceiling interaction and an animated Twitter feed display for the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu Korea. Team role: Project lead and interaction designer. Collaborated with NEC C&C Innovation Research Lab in Nara Japan to create a future city simulation using Unity. Team role: concept design and interaction design. ### Product Development Intern @ Namco Bandai Holdings Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Tokyo Japan Interned as a product developer in the core toy development department at Bandai, Tokyo. My role included product ideation, design review, and attending weekly user testing of concepts to gauge their value. A dream internship in the heart of Tokyo. ## Education ### MET in Masters in Entertainment Technology Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 ### BFA in Industrial Design Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ### 1 Year Immersion Program in Japanese Language Japan Center for Michigan Universities Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stephengarland - Portfolio: http://www.stephen-garland.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephengarland JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephengarland/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25