Know the Slope
Design Lead at Copper Mountain
Ski Resorts can be large and intimidating to navigate, especially when relying on a screen based system, but what if the turn by turn directions were audio based?
Strategy:
Sherpa was the world’s first audio-only navigation experience, and leveraged near-field communication tech to help make the app efficient and effective.
Design:
Leadership:
As the design lead working with Copper Mountain, I helped to create the core product concept and design framework while overseeing prototype development.
The big mountain audio app that turns tourists to locals.
Skiing is all fun and games until you're stuck on a double black diamond — Unable to find your way back to the Hot Cocoa lodge, and fearing for your life. Sherpa is a mobile app that helps mitigate the less than savory aspects of skiiing by empowers tourists with the same expert knowledge that the locals have been hoarding for decades. Fresh pow, manicured corduroy, and the best place to après are now within reach for every visitor to Copper Mountain.
Sherpa helps make foreign, hulking 14ers feel more like a local mountain by welcoming tourists to town with an app chock-full of cherished local knowledge.
Product In Hand
Role:
Design Lead
Services:
Research, Strategy, Design
Partner:
Copper Mountain
Status:
Launched, 2013
