Story-teller Studio — Seattle, WA
Senior industrial design expertise turning complex hardware ideas into product concepts, visualization, and launch-ready direction — dramatically faster.
Design experience across
Selected Work
Seven programs spanning retail, consumer, medical, and rugged hardware — from first concept to production-ready design.
Retail experience / Industrial design / Spatial systems
A modular O·P·I beauty retail system combining product discovery, nail-color testing, education, and assisted service across towers, carts, and in-store experience zones.
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Industrial design / Product architecture / DFM
A modular point-of-sale hardware system designed to adapt to diverse retail workflows and configurations — merchant-facing and customer-facing modes from one dock architecture.
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Industrial design / Wearables / Human factors
Head-mounted display and controller design balancing weight distribution, facial fit, venting, and long-session comfort for consumer virtual reality.
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Research / Concept development / Volumetric prototyping
Defining product vision for a pod-and-drip combo brewer — user research and volumetric foam prototypes driving the production K-Duo Plus 12-cup.
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Industrial design / Brand heritage / CAD
How do you convey brand heritage and quality through industrial design? A professional loudspeaker family — from portable powered column systems to the Live X series — built to earn trust.
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Industrial design / Healthcare / CMF
A virtual-care dock for phones and tablets with multi-layered users — patient, caregiver, and clinician — designed for intuitive and pleasant connection.
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Industrial design / OEM commercial / Customizability
Notification appliances and detectors for a leading North American OEM, engineered for backward compatibility and field customization — satisfying architects and contractors alike.
View case study→Featured engagement
See your product before you invest months in development.
Bring a sketch, a prototype, CAD, or a rough idea. In three days we explore the opportunity with senior industrial design judgment and AI-accelerated iteration, and return a focused set of credible product directions.
$495
Starting engagement
What you receive
For founders and teams validating a new hardware opportunity. Sprint work credits toward a larger engagement.
Services
From first sketch to launch-ready visualization, Story-teller Studio combines senior industrial design experience with AI-enabled workflows to help hardware teams move faster.
Define product opportunities, user needs, design direction, and product architecture.
Concept development, form development, CMF, ergonomics, and design language.
Rapidly explore multiple design directions, visual territories, materials, forms, and product experiences.
High-quality product renders, marketing imagery, launch visuals, investor presentations, and product storytelling.
Detailed CAD development, mechanical collaboration, DFM reviews, prototyping, and manufacturing support.
Fast, focused design engagements for startups that need a product concept, investor-ready visuals, or launch direction.
Process
Understand the product, users, market, constraints, and opportunity.
Rapidly generate and evaluate multiple design directions.
Select the strongest direction and develop the product language.
Refine form, ergonomics, CMF, CAD, and technical considerations.
Create high-quality product imagery and launch-ready storytelling.
Provide the assets needed for engineering, investors, marketing, or the next development stage.
About
Great product design lives between imagination and engineering.
Story-teller Studio pairs deep industrial design experience with modern AI-enabled tools to explore ideas faster without losing sight of ergonomics, manufacturing, materials, cost, and real-world use.
The studio works with founders, product teams, engineers, and emerging technology companies to transform complex technical ideas into products that feel intuitive, desirable, and ready for the next stage.
Principal Industrial Designer
Jongho Nho
18+ years designing consumer electronics, medical devices, wearables, robotics, and rugged hardware.
Why Story-teller
Senior expertise
Design leadership across consumer electronics, healthcare, rugged hardware, wearables, robotics, and emerging technology — with the manufacturing literacy to keep concepts real.
AI-accelerated
Modern AI-enabled workflows compress the early cycle: more territories explored, more variants visualized, decisions reached in days rather than months.
Built for startups
Every engagement ends in assets a team can act on — investor visuals, engineering-ready direction, and a product story that holds up in the room.
Hardware startups rarely need more meetings. They need clarity.
We help founders turn rough ideas, engineering prototypes, and technical requirements into compelling product concepts that can be shown to investors, engineers, customers, and manufacturing partners.
Talk About Your Product→Engagements
Scoped engagements with fixed starting points. Custom programs available.
For early ideas and product exploration.
From $495
Enquire →For products heading to investors, marketing, crowdfunding, or launch.
From $995
Enquire →For teams that need deeper industrial design support.
From $1,950
Enquire →Contact
Tell us what you're building. You'll hear back from the principal designer, not a sales queue.
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