Stephen Frost
Stuck things, unstuck.
I work at the seam where people meet engineered systems — finding why a product, a process, or a machine isn’t going, and making it go.
The story
Design, systems, manufacturing, tech writing — it looks like four careers. It’s one disposition applied to different materials: diagnose the seam, trust the hands, make it go.
Selected work, sorted by problem, not by trade
Three phones, one deadline
$12M carrier launch, 3 vendors, tailored process, accepted and shipped on time. Read the case →
A new chip, made programmable
Visual development environment for a radically new processor, proposal to implementation. Read the case →
Digital money kids can hold
Connected piggy bank for a digital-only era, concept to production-ready design. Read the case →
There’s more. See the whole map: every problem, tagged with the trades it took →
Have a stuck thing? Tell me about it →