Otto Williams

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About Otto Williams

Accomplished creative leader with deep experience in product design and development including audio video devices, webcams, wearables, IoT devices and furniture for smart home and work spaces. Over 12 years crafting experiences at the convergence of hardware, software/UI, and user research / human factors. Inspired to create at the intersection of physical >< Humanity.+ Leading Industrial Design, UX, and Human Factors for $1B+, multi-million unit volume, product portfolio in the Collaboration Group at Cisco.+ Designed new product categories and led comprehensive product portfolio development effort, growing the new category biz to $30M in 18 months. More than 1M units sold to date.+ Led flagship room-scaled immersive video design, enhancing end to end experience while reducing end user costs by 50%. Innovation in the design led to three US Patents and Cisco’s first Red Dot Best-of-the-Best international design award.+ Built new cross-functional design team from ground up to 20+ ID, UX, UxR, Human Factors across San Jose, Dallas, and Shanghai. Grew new design culture to keep them inspired, engaged, developing, and connected across continents.+ Track record of novel intellectual property creation for Cisco and Steelcase as named inventor on 17 US patent awards. Key utility patent award for AI powered conference room devices.+ Designed well-loved, iconic, timeless, award winning designs for Coalesse / Steelcase that are still in the market today, 20+ years later. Bix Seating + Denizen Storage.+ Incorporated innovative environmentally sustainable design methodologies and materials at scale at both Cisco and Steelcase.