Tobias Toft
Sr. Lead, Hardware UX at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolTobias Toft is a multidisciplinary design leader and educator with 11+ years blending engineering rigor and rapid prototyping to shape hardware and UX for products at scale. Currently a Sr. Lead for Hardware UX at Google and an assistant professor at ArtCenter, he has helmed visual and experiential design across Google’s Assistant, AR/VR and AI efforts and previously led applied creative technology at Pinterest and design practices at IDEO. His background spans product validation and prototyping at Nokia to principal design roles in startups and consultancies, giving him a rare fluency across hardware, software, and brand. Tobias frequently brings teaching and research into practice—mentoring through CIID and academia while shipping commercial products—so his work often surfaces novel interactions informed by physical computing and rapid iteration. He is equally comfortable translating complex technical constraints into compelling user narratives as he is sketching and building early-stage prototypes that steer product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Interaction Design and Physical Computing, Interaction Design and Physical Computing at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsMA Equivalent, Pilot Year, Interaction Design, MA Equivalent, Pilot Year, Interaction Design at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction DesignTechnical University of DenmarkGlobal Challenges, Global Challenges at INDEX:CIID Summer Camp
English, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Danish, German
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Github Skills (10)
zengge6
responsive3
controller3
home-assistant2
tiger2
vue2
mesh2
svg-files1
svg1
home-automation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tobiastoft/ArduinoEasing
Jul 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 2 issues in 2 years 9 months
tobiastoft/barebones
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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