Hamish Tennent
User Research Manager at PicCollage
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolHamish Tennent is a Taipei-based User Research Manager with nearly a decade of experience translating emerging hardware and software technologies—robots, autonomous vehicles, and smart home devices—into grounded, user-centered products. He has led cross-disciplinary teams from academic labs at Stanford and Cornell to industry roles at Meta, Audi/Volkswagen, and PicCollage, blending ethnographic qualitative methods with hands-on prototyping and industrial design. Hamish’s background in both furniture-scale robotics and in-vehicle HMI gives him a rare ability to bridge physical and digital UX, especially for inclusive mobility and safety-focused features. He’s adept at shepherding research insights into engineering and product strategy across global teams, and often pairs lab-driven studies with real-world community engagement to surface underreported user needs.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (MFA), Industrial and Interaction Design, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Industrial and Interaction Design at California College of the ArtsBachelor of Design, Industrial and Product Design, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Design, Industrial and Product Design, First Class Honours at Massey University
English
Github Skills (15)
slack-bot7
websocket6
slack6
python6
websocket-client6
aiohttp5
asyncio4
virtual-reality3
simulation3
particle2
aiohttp-client2
smartcard1
nfc1
beancount1
rfid1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
riglab/spyderbot
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:198 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
mynameishamish/r2-kiwix
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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