Complete Smart Home Experience

Industry

Consumer Electronics

Client

Tabs

Gaps

Ownership

The tech worked. The experience didn't exist.

The tech worked. The experience didn't exist.

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