october 2018 - march 2019
rivian key fob
3 designers, including myself, were asked to run a design sprint on a Rivian Key Fob.
I spent hours absorbing the forms and materiality of objects our CMF designer Sophia Park had curated to inspire the vehicle - including carabiners.
Standard fobs are bulky and need to be stuffed in your pocket. I wanted to design one that could be taken along without a second thought but stay easily accessible - just like a carabiner.
My theme won and I developed it through to production.
Role - industrial designer
ring-around-the…antennae
The carabiner-inspired ring around the key fob was integral to the design theme leadership chose. But, being metal, it also affected the key fob’s range dramatically.
Unwilling to change the theme or the material, teamwork resulted in the idea of coring out the metal ring to get the antennae as close to the surface as possible. This allowed us to keep the design intent, fit a larger battery and get the signal range we had originally targetted.
