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Crown One is Garrett Weinberg’s user interface design practice. We staff up and partner up as projects require.

While we excel in designing all kinds of experiences for all kinds of devices, our particular specialties are conversational AI and automotive UI.

Please also feel free to get in touch regarding panel participation and workshop facilitation.

  • In the years since then, the dictation paradigm was joined by voice search and — now more than ever, in the GenAI era — by voice-enabled assistants or agents. Sometimes an agent talks back when you talk to it, and sometimes it might show rather than tell. Have you ever wondered why? Get in touch and we can shed some light on that.

    We’ve also thought a lot about how conversational interfaces can be made less stilted, more natural and fluid, and how voice input and output are best combined with other modalities like gaze, touch, graphics, sound and gesture.

    Our competencies in this area include:

    • Multimodal, natural engagement and disengagement

    • Voice and multimodal design patterns

    • Data design and crowd collection

    • Policy design and prompt engineering

Conversational AI

  • Besides having worked on production and prototype car navigation systems for brands like Mercedes, Volvo, Hyundai, Denso, and Apple CarPlay, our founder has been involved in the conception and creation of novel interfaces and UX design patterns for new categories of consumer device, such as Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod and Apple Vision Pro.

    Like navigation systems in cars, these specialty systems come with significant constraints, but also with new classes of sensing, input and output that unlock new opportunities for interaction.

    This breadth of experience across various device form factors — with variously sized displays, or none at all — and across various modalities of input and output, make Crown One an excellent match for your bespoke device UI project. Consider us for the projects in any of the following areas:

    • Multimodal Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) for cars, including standards-compliant advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)

    • HMI design for embedded and specialty systems (e.g., medical and industrial devices, event monitoring systems, etc.)

    • Virtual and mixed reality design

    • Human-robot interaction (HRI) design

    • Human Factors engineering and design for access

Automotive and Specialty UI

  • In a workshop with your enterprise or institutional team, we can explore AI’s strengths and limitations, and discuss which tools are best for which purposes.

    In these workshops, we frame AI as an efficiency-booster and force-multiplier, not a threat to existing people or processes. Rather than remaining in the domain of toy examples and fake data, we prefer to coach and empower the group to develop their own tools, automations — even whole sites or apps — right on the spot, in a “hackathon”-style format.

AI Workshops