Nicholas Barker

Creative Director, Industrial Designer

Orange County, CA

Senior level design or creative direction position at a company that values creative excellence and passionate, innovative design leadership.
Seeking an opportunity that will leverage a unique, broad mix of proven profitable skills including:

Design Management:
award winning product design
interaction design and innovation
user centered research and analysis
brand strategy and development for product, graphic and web
award winning graphic and identity design
interaction design and innovation
digital media design and planning

Leadership:
created multidisciplinary in-house design infrastructure
able to motivate and grow skills in both senior and entry level design staff
experience framing opportunities with senior management
long term collaborative relationships with "world experts" - outside firms and individuals
champion for design focused improvements to user experience
ability to envision and communicate long term brand strategies

Selected work

Medical Industrial Design

Root Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform
Provided all industrial design for Masimo's flagship monitor which is also a docking and charging station for the Radical-7 Masimo's legacy hand held / transport monitor. 2015 MDEA Gold award winner
Root Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform - side view
Root Patient Monitoring and Connectivity Platform - rear view
Radius-7 wearable wireless patient monitor
Shown with it's charging and storage cradle in the Root Monitor
Radius-7 wearable wireless patient monitor
Provided creative direction, design management and project oversight
Industrial design by Chad DeJong
Radius-7 wearable wireless patient monitor
Radius-7 wearable wireless patient monitor
Creative Direction - Mindray V Series Critical Care Patient Monitor (ID by James Wilson at Continuum and Peter Schon at Mindray)
V Series side view
V Series rear view
Patient connector detail
V Series
V Series
V Series reversable parameter module
Triple battery access
parameter modules
V Series front view of all touch UI
V Series clinical setting
Maquet Cardiosave intraaortic balloon pump launched Fall 2011 (Industrial Design by N. Barker and Aidan Hyde)
clinician interacting with touch screen controls
Close up of Cardiosave UI
Rear view showing patient connections, dual battery storage and retractable AC power cord
Close-up of balloon catheter and fiber optic connections
clinician removing transport unit
transport unit separated from ICU cart
clinician walking with transport unit
First Intra Aortic Balloon Pump designed by N. Barker - ID Magazine winner
Next Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (Industrial Design N. Barker)
Vascular Sealing Device
Telemetry Monitoring System with patented, removable SpO2 module
thrombectomy device
Blood Pressure Monitor
Vital Signs Monitor
Body worn alert monitor (ID by Mike Nelson at Stratos)
Body worn alert monitor
Body worn alert monitor
Monitor rolling stands
Monitor rolling stands
Resuscitation Device
Resuscitation Device
award winning exibit design
innovative catheter packaging

Interaction Design - Web & Medical Devices

Maquet Intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) UI design
IABP all touch controls (all menus closed)
(IABP) - primary menus open
(IABP) - assist/standby controls close up
(IABP) scroll adjustment controls
Mindray (formerly Datascope) V12 ICU Patient Monitor UI
V12 - menu tabs
V12 - Arrhythmia Alarms - global settings
V12 - patient info menu- selection
V12 - patient info menu close-up
Creative Direction AI and UI - Datascope.com
Home page - Datascope.com
Home page - Datascope.com
Product Detail page - Datascope.com
UI Design - CPR assist device
UI Design - traditional fixed keypad (earlier IABP)
UI design oversight - NetGuard Body Worn Early Lethal Arrhythmia Dection System Nurses station (actual design done by John Judy)
Design Oversight - Animation - trade show plasma
Design Oversight - Animation - Nasdaq Tower Time Square (design by John Orlando and Maureen Doyle)
Animation and UI - E learning