Role: Founding Designer
As a founding member of an early-stage hardware start-up PAL (Portable Air Labs), my role involved developing a wearable device to monitor indoor air quality at construction sites. To ensure the product met real user needs, I conducted research with 15 construction industry professionals. Through interviews and prototyping sessions, I sought to understand how the device might fit into participants' daily workflows. From this, I derived key user personas and created paper prototypes to identify usability issues before advancing to digital design. The goal of this user research was to help PAL envision an air monitoring solution that could deliver meaningful, actionable insights for construction professionals in the field.