Product × Technology × Experience
Nigel Clarke
Product & technology innovator for ambiguous 0→1 problem spaces.
I define new products at the intersection of design, engineering, and strategy. My favorite work lives in the creative space where technology meets user needs: prototypes that leap-frog hurdles to learn in days or weeks instead of months or years.
ToolkitPython · React · Node.js · Unity/C# · Embedded C++ · GPT-class models · FigmaAI-first workflows · Agentic coding · Sora · Nano-banana 🍌
Currently
Principal AI Prototyper, HP
AI New Form Factors · 2024–present
Previously
Staff Research Engineer, Samsung
Think Tank Team · 2018–2024
Highlights
- 9+ years at the frontier of product, UX & tech
- 19+ patents filed
- MS Stanford · BASc Waterloo
- Research at Caltech & Harvard
Principles I build by
Build to Inspire & Learn
Cross-disciplinary ideas and fast, tangible prototypes spark imagination, uncover opportunities, and align teams.
Decouple to Accelerate
Break big, ambiguous problems into targeted efforts that de-risk the most significant questions across desirability, feasibility, and viability.
Scale Fidelity
Be scrappy and only build high fidelity polish or functionality when necessary. Stay curious and agile.
Software, hardware, and product

Samsung
Galaxy XR & Input
Founded and led an 8-person team on year-long concept work for Samsung's Galaxy XR (Project Moohan), pivoting from a productivity-XR thesis to input as the day-one consumer unlock.
HP Inc.
Wearable AI for Frontline Workers
Defined in-ear & app experiences via rapid functional prototyping of complex, multi-output AI capabilities.
Side Project
Real-time Generative UI
Ideation canvas where the UI and features adapt to your ideas in realtime.
Samsung
Multi-view Display
A display where each viewer sees different content simultaneously.
Side Project
Generative Projection Mapping
Generative AI restyling of real-world objects via projector + camera optical alignment.
Harvard University
Optical Biosensors
Development and testing of optical biosensors for high-sensitivity protein detection.
Patents & publications
- Controller with selectable discrete and variable input modesUS App. 18/528,359 · 2023
- HID controller with a retractable stylus tipUS 12,056,295 · 2023
- Laterally offset parallax barriers in multi-view displayUS 11,474,372 · 2020
- Resilient 3D hierarchical architected metamaterialsPNAS · 2015
- Optimization of multiple-slot waveguides for biochemical sensingApplied Optics · 2014
- Scalable photonic crystal chips for high-sensitivity protein detectionOptics Express · 2013