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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
How I work

Principles I build by

01

Build to Inspire & Learn

Cross-disciplinary ideas and fast, tangible prototypes spark imagination, uncover opportunities, and align teams.

02

Decouple to Accelerate

Break big, ambiguous problems into targeted efforts that de-risk the most significant questions across desirability, feasibility, and viability.

03

Scale Fidelity

Be scrappy and only build high fidelity polish or functionality when necessary. Stay curious and agile.

Built at the intersections

Software, hardware, and product

Samsung Galaxy XR headset.

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.

Poly earbuds running in-ear AI.

HP Inc.

Wearable AI for Frontline Workers

Defined in-ear & app experiences via rapid functional prototyping of complex, multi-output AI capabilities.

Screenshot from the Real-time Generative UI side project.

Side Project

Real-time Generative UI

Ideation canvas where the UI and features adapt to your ideas in realtime.

Multi-view lenticular display patent imagery.

Samsung

Multi-view Display

A display where each viewer sees different content simultaneously.

Projected restyling via generative AI.

Side Project

Generative Projection Mapping

Generative AI restyling of real-world objects via projector + camera optical alignment.

Optical biosensor experimental setup imagery.

Harvard University

Optical Biosensors

Development and testing of optical biosensors for high-sensitivity protein detection.

Research

Patents & publications