Austin S Lee — CEO
Austin specializes in immersive communication and has spent over ten years primarily focusing on AR/VR design in academic and industry settings. Austin is the Head of XR UX and Corporate Vice President at Samsung Electronics. Before joining Samsung Electronics, Austin focused on designing XR input at Reality Labs-Research Design at Meta, a team dedicated to developing design solutions for the future of wearables and immersive experiences in AR/VR. Before joining Meta, he was the Design DRI for Multimodal voice interactions and controller input in Mixed Reality experiences at Microsoft's HoloLens team. As a former patent lead, Austin oversaw communications-related inventions by Skype and Teams during his time at Skype Design, Microsoft. Since 2013, he has successfully launched multiple Mixed Reality and hardware products as a design lead, such as Skype for HoloLens, Skype for Windows Mixed Reality, and Skype for Amazon Echo. Before returning to the industry, Austin held a tenure-track position as a professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). At CMU, he also assumed the Interaction Design Topic Chair role for the Master's program and was a founding faculty member of the undergraduate Environments Track. Additionally, Austin held an affiliate faculty position in the School of Architecture's Master of Tangible Interaction Design program at CMU. Austin has received international design awards from the Red Dot and Adobe. He showed his work internationally at CHI, UIST, SIGGRAPH Asia, TEI, and IDSA Conference. As the lead coordinator and interaction designer in a team representing South Korea, he presented an interactive design installation piece at the London Design Biennale 2016 at the Somerset House in London. Austin holds two Master's degrees from the MIT Media Lab and Art Center College of Design for his work in Human-Computer Interaction and Media Design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in immersive technology and user experience design.
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Experience: 15 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- User Experience
- Design Strategy
- Immersive Environments
- Product Design
- Communication
- Creative Strategy
- Visual Design
- Storytelling
Career Highlights
- Over ten years in AR/VR design.
- Led design for multiple mixed reality products.
- Award-winning designer with international recognition.
Work Experience
Samsung Electronics
Corporate Vice President (2 yrs 5 mos)
Meta
Principal Research Designer | Reality Labs-Research Design (2 yrs 2 mos)
Microsoft
Senior Designer | Mixed Reality Design & UXR (1 yr 4 mos)
Senior Designer | Open Studio, M365 Core (1 yr 8 mos)
Senior Design Lead | Skype Mixed Reality and Hardware (1 yr 2 mos)
Carnegie Mellon University
Design Consultant at NAVER Corp (1 mo)
Advisor at Graviky Labs (1 yr)
Assistant Professor, School of Design (2 yrs 4 mos)
The Art Institutes
Adjunct Faculty Instructor (8 mos)
Skype, Microsoft
UX Designer II (2 yrs)
MIT Media Lab
Instructor (2 mos)
Research Assistant (2 yrs 5 mos)
Aeolab LLC
Freelance Designer (4 mos)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Space Grant Recipient (3 mos)
MOTO Development Group
User Experience Co-op (3 mos)
Continuum
Design Intern (0 mo)
Hanssem
Design Intern (1 mo)
Education
M.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.F.A at ArtCenter College of Design
B.F.A at Kookmin University
