Apple released Clips in 2016 to enable iPhone and iPad users to make multi-cut videos quickly and easily. I managed the UX team responsible for design and prototyping the beta version of the app over an 6 month period. Our mission was to create a light-weight relative of iMovie built from the ground up for mobile devices, not desktop computers. To pre-visualize the various contexts and time states for users making videos with the app, my team and I used Keynote, Sketch, Principal, iMovie and After Effects to build hundreds of variations of the App before production coding began. Dave Phelan of Forbes summarized the app this way: “Apple Clips is the coolest, most fun thing Apps has done in a while… Dazzling fun, but an exceptionally easy tool which will have more serious uses.”

My team at 1K developed an immersive ‘enhanced viewing experience’ for Warner Brothers. The feature is an evolved version of the popular director commentary, tailored to interactive viewing platforms. It became a key selling point in Warner Home Entertainment’s promotion strategy in the years after is was first launched – appearing on 15+ major home media releases.  Our production for Sherlock Holmes – Game of Shadows (2011) features exclusive footage that we shot with Robert Downey Jr. accessed via an app that synchs with the film. The app also features various interactive features such as a map that reveals where you’re at any point during the film. 1K also created trailers and digital promotional media to engage viewers in the concept.

At 1K, my team and I developed design and animation components for Apple software. We worked with Steve Jobs and and a number of his senior Engineering, Product and Design leaders. Over a period of 6 years, we contributed to various releases of Keynote, iMovie, iDVD, Motion, iPhoto and more.

1K created an enhanced reading app framework for Penguin Books.  It featured  Penguin-branded feature that we developed called “Sidenotes” that allows users to seamlessly access additional content via notes in the margin of the text while reading.  We designed and produced the first two book apps in the series, then helped Penguin launch it’s own in-house production team.

This feature allows viewers of the Ironman films to seamlessly isolate characters while watching. Details of the elaborate armor and weapons system for each character are revealed for closer inspection through series of 3D break down animations. 1K inherited 3D models and textures from ILM, then animated, lit and rendered the animations to match the look and feel of the film.

Developed the iTunes Extras and LP media format with Apple’s iTunes Group.  The framework allows content owners to create and sell primary content bundled with added-value features such as behind-the-scenes videos, photo galleries, liner notes and custom artwork.  We also developed, shot and produced an original content series called iTunes Originals Live. It featured music performance videos from bands such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lenny Kravitz and John Legend.

Product conception, UI and branding based on a business outline from a social media start-up called Spread. Spread is a fun, fast, and easy way to share what you love with your friends and others from around the world.

1K developed hundreds of products for children on behalf of companies such as Disney, Hasbro, Fox, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks and Warner Brothers. From 2010 through 2013, the focus of our work in this area was creating mobile apps. Our Happy Feet Two app created for Warner Brothers, is a good example. It featured a dancing 3D penguin and won Variety Magazine’s Move App of the Year Award in 2012.