Complete Smart Home Experience

Industry

Consumer Electronics

Client

Tabs

Gaps

Ownership

A refined customer experience—built from the ground up and launched just in time for CES.

A refined customer experience—built from the ground up and launched just in time for CES.

THE GAPS

For Tabs to succeed, every interaction — from brand naming to mobile alerts to retail packaging — needed to work as one system. The challenge wasn't technical feasibility. It was designing a system families would actually trust and use.

THE ENGAGEMENT

I embedded with TrackNet's founders as fractional design director for one year — owning brand, product design, and go-to-market from concept through CES launch.

WHAT I DELIVERED

A complete brand and product experience — from naming to CES launch.

It started with mission planning — discovery work to understand customer needs, competitive positioning, and business objectives. That framework guided every decision across brand, product, UX, engineering, and vendor relationships. From there, I designed the complete product experience: iOS and Android apps for device pairing, onboarding, alerts, and monitoring — all built to feel effortless for families. I led design and development of the marketing website and eCommerce experience, unifying product discovery, evaluation, and purchase into one seamless flow. Across every surface — brand identity, physical packaging, digital interfaces, customer support — I focused on the connective tissue that builds trust and reduces friction. Naming conventions, error messages, unboxing, onboarding — nothing was treated as an afterthought.

"Dedication and talent were exceptional."

Hardy Schmidbauer - CEO of Tracknet

The Impact

  • Brand, hardware, mobile experience, and eCommerce unified into one coherent customer journey

  • Friction reduced across discovery, purchase, onboarding, device setup, and daily use — in a market where poor UX kills products

  • Tabs positioned as a differentiated, family-friendly solution through clarity and consistency

  • A scalable design foundation built to support future device expansion

  • A market-ready product that launched at CES and positioned TrackNet for eventual acquisition

THE WORK

Design leadership for technical teams

Launch-ready customer experience worthy of your engineering—in less than 3 months

THE WORK

Design leadership for technical teams

Launch-ready customer experience worthy of your engineering—in less than 3 months

CONTACT

Let's work together.

David Crawford

Founder & Design Director

Remote in Pittsburgh, PA

OPENINGS NOW

What's your gap?

© 2026 United Experience LLC
Embedded design leadership for funded startups. I work with technical founders and engineering teams to align brand, product, and go-to-market into one unified customer experience. Fractional design lead for hardware, IoT, and SaaS teams preparing to launch, raise, or scale.

✦ EXPERIENCE ✦ UNITED

CONTACT

Let's work together.

David Crawford

Founder & Design Director

Remote in Pittsburgh, PA

Openings NOW

What's your gap?

© 2026 United Experience LLC
Embedded design leadership for funded startups. I work with technical founders and engineering teams to align brand, product, and go-to-market into one unified customer experience. Fractional design lead for hardware, IoT, and SaaS teams preparing to launch, raise, or scale.

✦ EXPERIENCE ✦ UNITED

CONTACT

Let's work together.

David Crawford

Founder & Design Director

Remote in Pittsburgh, PA

What's your gap?

© 2026 United Experience LLC
Embedded design leadership for funded startups. I work with technical founders and engineering teams to align brand, product, and go-to-market into one unified customer experience. Fractional design lead for hardware, IoT, and SaaS teams preparing to launch, raise, or scale.

✦ EXPERIENCE ✦ UNITED