An AR wearable hardware company had created early-stage prototypes of a golf experience for their smart glasses, and needed a production-ready product that could demonstrate the platform's full potential to third-party developers.

As Lead Product Designer, the challenge was taking those prototypes through a rigorous design process and building something that held up under real-world conditions — outdoors, mid-round, with gloved hands and variable data quality. The experience lived across two surfaces: the AR heads-up display in the glasses (handling real-time, glanceable on-course information) and a companion mobile app (handling setup, stats, and anything requiring more complex input).

A core part of the work was defining precisely where each surface took responsibility, so the two felt like one coherent product. A fully modular component library was built to handle the unpredictable data from third-party course APIs, with clear fallback states for every possible data scenario. The visual design had to meet the particular demands of an AR context — legibility in bright sunlight, high contrast against the real world, and a minimal footprint in the user's field of view.