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Pete Hawkes builds prototypes not to predict the future, but to better understand the present. His work sits at the boundary of interface, intelligence, and the human body—where gestures, sensors, and systems converge to ask: What is it like to interact with a machine that listens? That adapts? That learns?
Trained in both design and development, Pete creates tools that translate ambiguity into experience. He has shaped AI-integrated workflows, spatial computing environments, and large-scale interactive systems for organizations like IBM Watson, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, Twitter, and McKinsey—not to demonstrate what technology can do, but to explore how it might better align with human needs.
He believes that thoughtful design is less about solving problems and more about framing them well. Through iterative prototyping, cross-disciplinary thinking, and close attention to detail, Pete crafts moments that let us briefly glimpse how technology might feel—before it fully arrives.