Hi, my name is Garrett Weinberg.

I’ve been designing and building digital products for over 25 years. While I have particular expertise in voice/AI assistants and multimodal UIs — including for cars — I have worked on a variety of products and devices. Have a quick look below, or email me to arrange a walkthrough in greater detail.

Get in touch and we’ll talk about making your user interfaces more compelling, fluid and fun. I’m available for projects of any size, on a contract or retainer basis.

  • Still from a video mockup of flexible listening behavior

    Multimodal Platform Design

    Created specs and mockups showing more forgiving, adaptive listening behavior for Siri in Apple Intelligence.

    Created rules and guidelines for Siri response behaviors (e.g., when to speak, which GUI pattern to use).

  • Siri near a Safari window on Apple Vision Pro

    Siri & Dictation on Apple Vision Pro

    Designed and prototyped Siri position, state, feedback, and persistence in mixed reality, and support for contextual references via gaze tracking.

    Prototyped and influenced look-to-speak dictation feature in Safari.

  • Car navigation system showing CarPlay and Siri.

    Automotive User Interfaces

    In addition to leading the design of Siri in CarPlay from 2013–2017, I worked on production or concept-car voice or multimodal systems whose end-customers included Jaguar, Ford, Volvo, Mercedes, Chrysler, and Hyundai.

    I take governmental standards and human factors research into account when creating low-distraction UIs / HMIs, whether they’re for information, entertainment, or vehicle automation.

  • Ad showing an easier way to wake up Siri

    Siri Activation

    Designed a simpler, single-state listening and persistence model for Siri in iOS 17 (2023). This involved coordinated changes to visual, auditory and tactile cues.

    Collaborated on machine learning models that exclude speech not intended for the assistant.

  • Composite showing input and result for the Safari Voice Search feature

    Safari Voice Search

    Led interaction design for Safari Voice Search feature for iOS 15 (2021). Devised and illustrated three classes of behavior: direct-navigate, search-in-engine, and direct-answer (shown above).

  • Screenshot of Driving Focus enrollment notification

    Driving Focus

    Let policy and settings design for Do Not Disturb While Driving in iOS 13 (2019), which was absorbed into the Focus feature in iOS 15 (2021).

  • Screenshot of Siri translating a sentence into German

    Siri Domain Design

    Conversational input and output designs for text messaging, destination search, mapping/navigation, Apple Music, translations, etc.

Patents & Publications

I’m listed as an inventor on 30 patent filings, and as an author on 12 academic publications.

Etc.

I speak nearly fluent German, conversational French, and a bit of Spanish and Japanese.

I once appeared on the TV game show Jeopardy!.