About

“Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.” - Willy Wonka

Scott Petill

I’m a product design contractor, formally on Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Design team, from early HoloLens incubation to shipping the first HoloLens and subsequent releases of the Mixed Reality platform (AR/VR); a paradigm shift that has deeply influenced the spatial computing industry, including interaction models, UX, and high-value use cases.

Leveraging a background in the fine arts, and particularly conceptual art and interactive installations, I’m interested in the ‘what?’ and ‘why?’, in addition to the ‘how?’.

My predisposition to see alternative design approaches and in finding brilliance at the periphery has lead to role of inspiring and guiding product teams to “innovation and invention over the tried and true”.

scottpetill[at]hotmail.com