# David Bingham

> By David Bingham · https://studiobing.com/davidbingham/
> Work by David Bingham.

**Sanding down the welds of human-computer interactions.**

Always working in the space between. A people-person by nature and endlessly interested in computing's ability to make life authentically better. This starts with finding problems worth solving through human-centric research and understanding of the world, and only then seeing where technology can be applied in support. My career bridges hardware, software, systems, and services across the world working with numerous fascinating people. Within that, a recurring theme arises around complex decision making, knowledge management, and collaboration between people and computing systems. Below is that history broken into eras with connections to the projects, patents, and papers that I have generated.

- **Studio Bing.** A design studio, a research lab, and a place to explore the intersection of people and technology.
- **Vans & Houses.** You can take the designer out of the shop, but you... NO! I must build and tinker and make things.
- **Outdoors.** Default-mode. If it can be outside, let's go. My motivator and reason for place.

## 2004 – present · Studio Bing — Always be building

Studio Bing is my front door since 2004: Along with my graphic designer wife, we consult on print, interactive, and physical products with self-publishing of personal passion projects. Sometimes busy and sometimes quiet. Loadout: An outdoor logistics application, built with Google services, integrated backlog management, custom skills, and a design system inspired by a WW2 survival manual. Shellface: A native iOS game taking advantage of the full Apple ecosystem to match silly faces with your friends. Occasional commissions, inquire within.

[Recreational Living](/davidbingham/work/recreational-living/) · [Doodle People](/davidbingham/work/doodle-people/)

Positions:
- Design Partner, founded in Atlanta in 2004; a constant alongside every era since, now in Boulder, Studio Bing, Boulder, CO · 2004 – present

## 2023 – present · Schneider Electric — Energy Intelligence™

Hired to lead experience design for the industrial side of energy management: Remote monitoring of assets, power & buildings, and the commissioning experiences system integrators use to bring an electrical system to life. The team grew from 7 to 36 across a dozen offices. From 2024, head of design for Digital Energy; in 2026, defining AI "energy intelligence" across 5 strategic domains.

Positions:
- Director Experience Design & Head of Design, Digital Energy, Schneider Electric, Boulder, CO · 2024 – present
- Director Experience Design, industrial applications and energy management, Schneider Electric, Boulder, CO · 2023 – 2024

Press and talks:
- 2023 · [Invisible Machines, S2E16](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-bingham-director-of-user-experience-at/id1022990588?i=1000631094480) · UX Magazine, interview

## 2021 – 2022 · Beyond.ai — Explainable AI

VP of Product Design at an industrial AI company built on Caltech & JPL technology. I led design globally, hired 6 designers across APAC, EMEA and the Americas, and owned the internal design system. The design problem was making machine advice legible to expert operators in high-stakes settings, so knowledge management and decision explainability was a requirement.

[KBOps](/davidbingham/work/kb-ops/)

Positions:
- Consulting engagement, Recreational Living, GE Appliances · 2022 · concurrent
- VP, Product Design, Beyond.ai, Glendale, CA · 2021 – 2022

## 2019 – 2021 · Workday — Unified entry

A deliberate step out of industrial software, into an individual-contributor principal role. I redesigned the Workday Assistant conversational agent, helped build the authoring tool behind it, and crafted a design argument that Assistant be the entry point to everything in Workday, years before agent-based systems. This included rethinking the task inbox and the experience architecture behind omni-channel notifications. A big life change from The Bay to Boulder came with it.

[Inbox & Notifications](/davidbingham/work/inbox-and-notifications/)

Positions:
- Principal User Experience Designer, Workday, Boulder, CO · 2019 – 2021

## 2018 – 2019 · GE Digital — Co-innovation

Senior Director of a team of product managers, interaction designers, and research specialists engaging customers alongside GE's strategic partners. We structured a system of design thinking & prototyping techniques to align partners, understand customer needs, and formulate offerings. In the practice's final year the large consultancies came in as co-deliverers, with design, product and engagement management all reporting to me.

[Operations Co-Creation](/davidbingham/work/operations-co-creation/)

Positions:
- Senior Director, Co-Innovation, GE Digital, San Ramon, CA · 2018 – 2019

## 2016 – 2018 · GE Digital — Problem architects

Director Experience Design, driving industrial internet engagements with strategic customers in green-field accounts: automotive, heavy equipment, resource management, manufacturing. Design-thinking workshops with C-level leaders, then co-design of the future business with operational experts, at their sites rather than ours. 60+ workshops across 15+ countries, over $100M in influenced bookings. We called ourselves "problem architects" as a complement to the commercial team "solution architects" with whom we worked.

[Operations Co-Creation](/davidbingham/work/operations-co-creation/)

Positions:
- Director Experience Design, GE Digital, San Ramon, CA · 2016 – 2018

Press and talks:
- 2016 · [GE Minds & Machines; GE Predix Transform; GE Digital Day Japan, Tokyo](/davidbingham/work/operations-co-creation/#presentations)

## 2015 – 2016 · GE Digital — Emerging Verticals

One of 4 founding leads of Emerging Verticals: a general manager, engineering, product, and me on experience design & research. I grew the team from 2 to 7, helped establish relationships with 36 customers, and led design on the first application to ship on Predix, Pitney Bowes Clarity. I presented GE's engagement practices with over 500 executives in Tokyo, at Predix Transform, and at GE's Minds & Machines trade conference.

[Operations Co-Creation](/davidbingham/work/operations-co-creation/)

Positions:
- Senior Design Manager, GE Digital, San Ramon, CA · 2015 – 2016

Press and talks:
- 2015 · [IDSA 50th National Conference and district conferences](/davidbingham/work/operations-co-creation/#presentations)

## 2013 – 2015 · GE Digital — Big dreams in The Bay

Transferred to San Ramon, California to curate GE's Industrial Internet Design System across all business vertical software. Consultative critiques and on-site research with GE businesses seeded Asset Performance Management, where the patterns and the patents were established; I ran the research, synthesis, storyboarding, personas and prototyping myself. As part of GE's corporate Design Council, I designed the interaction & feedback language of the Cooper Hewitt Museum's Pen.

[Asset Performance Management](/davidbingham/work/asset-performance-management/) · [Cooper Hewitt Pen](/davidbingham/work/cooper-hewitt-pen/) · [Well Insight](/davidbingham/work/well-insight/) · [GE Design System](/davidbingham/work/ge-design-system/)

Positions:
- Senior Staff Interaction Designer, GE Digital, San Ramon, CA · 2013 – 2015

Press and talks:
- 2015 · [The Atlantic](/davidbingham/work/cooper-hewitt-pen/#press), the Cooper Hewitt Pen
- 2014 · [Sound in Product Design](/davidbingham/work/audio-language/) · California College of the Arts, guest lecture with Hugh Dubberly
- 2014 · GE Software & Design Conference
- 2014 · Internet of Things · General Assembly, guest lecture

## 2011 – 2013 · GE Appliances — Concept & Brand

Extending the connected product experience beyond energy through 2 flagship efforts: A common control strategy across every appliance product line with prototyped electronics, displays, and software interactions, validated on a high-resolution physical simulator. Also, a branded appliance sound language built with Georgia Tech's Sonification Lab and covered by Fast Company and the Wall Street Journal.

[Audio Language](/davidbingham/work/audio-language/) · [Design Dichotomies](/davidbingham/work/design-dichotomies/)

Positions:
- Interaction Design Manager, Concept & Brand, GE Appliances, Louisville, KY · 2011 – 2013

Press and talks:
- 2012 · [Wall Street Journal; FastCoDesign](/davidbingham/work/audio-language/#coverage), appliance sound design

## 2008 – 2011 · GE Appliances — Home Energy

The most productive period of my career, seeding a deep interest in energy and water systems. As the "smart grid" emerged I led product design across progressive generations: The touchscreen Home Energy Manager, the Nucleus home hub, and the thermostats, displays and radio enclosures around them. I defined a design language across form, material, color, lighting, audio, & graphics. The work went to utility pilots and to CES in January 2011, with 23 of my 26 inventions filed during this era.

[Home Energy](/davidbingham/work/home-energy/) · [Patents](/davidbingham/patents/)

Positions:
- Home Energy Design Manager, GE Appliances, Louisville, KY · 2008 – 2011

Recognition:
- 2011 · GE CEO Imagination Award · GE, for the home energy management work

Press and talks:
- 2011 · [CES; public utilities; TV news](/davidbingham/work/home-energy/#ces), the home energy work shown

## 2006 – 2008 · GE Appliances — The first interaction designer

Hired into GE Appliance's Industrial Design Operations team as the first interaction designer, responsible for control strategy across every product line and brand. The signature move: 3 simultaneous cooking products on common hardware, navigation and graphics, cutting redundant engineering while making the brands more coherent. I established the embedded-controls design process and began hiring interaction and service designers. The earliest patent priority date happens here.

Positions:
- Interaction Design Manager, GE Appliances, Louisville, KY · 2006 – 2008

## 2004 – 2007 · Georgia Tech — HCI with an ID core

A Master of Industrial Design self-directed toward human-computer interaction and management, with coursework across 4 departments. I taught Introductory Industrial Design for 4 terms, rebuilt the entire syllabus and project structure with the program's director, and advised a senior on HTML & Flash. I founded Studio Bing here, and from 2006 Lenovo's Innovation Design Center retained me to curate design & technology intelligence for their growth into the US market.

Positions:
- Design & Technology Correspondent, Lenovo Innovation Design Center, Beijing · 2006 – 2007 · concurrent

Degree: Master of Industrial Design, Georgia Institute of Technology · GPA 4.0 · 2004 – 2006
Thesis: [Correlating Convergence in Product Design](/davidbingham/writing/correlating-convergence/), advised by Wayne Chung

Coursework:
- Intro to ID Grad Studies, Wayne Chung
- Human-Computer Interaction, Bruce Walker
- Human Centered Design, Randy Bernard → [Disability Research Paper](/davidbingham/writing/colour-blindness/)
- Graduate Studio II, Chandan Gokhale → [Ubiquitous computing](/davidbingham/writing/ubiquitous-computing/)
- Introduction to Human-Centered Computing, Elizabeth Mynatt → [Human Centered Computing](/davidbingham/writing/introduction-to-hcc/), [The History Browser](/davidbingham/writing/history-browser/), [Seeing the Invisible](/davidbingham/writing/seeing-the-invisible/), [Telemedicine Model for Use in Rural Haiti](/davidbingham/writing/telemedicine-haiti/)
- Special Topics: Information Technology, Chandan Gokhale
- Special Problems: graduate teaching mentor, Abir Mullick

Teaching:
- Special Problems: Research · Advisor · Spring 2006 · 1 student
- Introductory Design II · Instructor, with Walter Hargrove · Spring 2006 · 40 students
- Introductory Design I · Graduate Teaching Assistant, with Christopher Chudek · Fall 2005 · 41 students
- Introductory Design II · Graduate Teaching Assistant, with Mark McJunkin and Christopher Chudek · Spring 2005 · 39 students
- Introductory Design I · Graduate Teaching Assistant, with Mark McJunkin and Christopher Chudek · Fall 2004 · 44 students

Recognition:
- 2007 · [Notable D-School Alumni](https://web.archive.org/web/20071224142517/http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/10/1005_dschools/source/18.htm) · BusinessWeek
- 2006 · Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant · College of Architecture, Georgia Tech, the Introductory Design classes, with Walter Hargrove
- 2004 · Full Teaching Assistantship · Georgia Tech

Press and talks:
- 2006 · [IDSA Southern District Conference, Atlanta](/davidbingham/writing/correlating-convergence/), presented the master's thesis
- 2005 · SIGCHI, presented my group's personal financial manager

## 2001 – 2004 · Interactive Media Lab — All digital design and distribution

Senior Designer at a Louisville multimedia studio, leading graphic designers, video engineers, and database programmers on large web sites and software for Lexmark, Intel, Yum! Brands and Six Flags. The era's biggest program was Good Days Ahead, a computer-assisted cognitive behavioral therapy application published in 2003 and still distributed. The earliest software in my record is a therapeutic tool for people who are not technologists.

Positions:
- Senior Designer, Interactive Media Lab, Louisville, KY · 2001 – 2004

## 1995 – 2001 · Illinois — Bending the curriculum

Accepted as an electrical engineering student (my father taught electronics), switched to mechanical, then found industrial design. Enamored with the computer interfaces, I bent the program toward interaction design, sensors and the web, in Director, Alias, and Maya 1.0, before the discipline had a name. After graduating I stayed a year as a Technical Specialist teaching software & professional practices, the first appearance of a thread.

Positions:
- Vice President, IDSA Student Chapter, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL · 1998 – 1999
- Treasurer, IDSA Student Chapter, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL · 1997 – 1998
- Technical Specialist, teaching software and professional practice, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL · 2000 – 2001

Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · GPA 3.5 · 1995 – 2000

Program:
- Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering · Fall 1995 – Spring 1996
- Art, general, College of Fine & Applied Arts · Fall 1996 – Spring 1997
- Art, industrial design, College of Fine & Applied Arts · Fall 1997 – Spring 2000

Coursework:
- Design Methods I, Fall 1997
- Experimental Visual Techniques I, Fall 1998
- Computer Applications in Design I, Fall 1998
- Experimental Visual Techniques II, Spring 1999
- Computer Design II, Spring 1999
- Professional Practice, Fall 1999
- Independent Study, Curriculum & Instruction, Fall 1999

Recognition:
- 1999 · International Design Conference Aspen Award
- 1999 · Dean's List · College of Fine & Applied Arts, 4 terms, Fall 1997 to Spring 1999

## Practice

**Capabilities.** Design leadership across commercial, partner, platform and product oorganizations. Discovery research and repeatable playbooks. Ideation through iterative demonstration. Storytelling to C-level, influencing over $100M in SaaS bookings. Hardware & software crossover.

**Working skills.** Facilitation, sketching, journey mapping, concept diagramming, storyboarding, persona development, lightweight prototyping, AI-augmentation, and writing, writing, writing, writing.

**Current tools.** Whiteboarding first. VS Code managing Claude and a skill library deployable across projects and models. GitHub hold most design records. Figma kept for design-system components and tokens, but fading in the rearview mirrow. FigJam facilitation but prefer breathing the same air.