Brian Vaughn — design portfolio
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Nightfall Gaming Headphone
A fresh start after a strategic pivot from mobile to console and desktop gamers. The first product of JLab's gaming division — now the entry tier of a full line.
Gaming Line — Nightfall · Midnight · Daybreak
Eleven products across three tiers — headsets, keyboards, and mice — launched spring 2026. Debuted at DreamHack Atlanta as sponsor of the CoD League Major III.
Nightfall, in the wild
The same line, off the spec sheet — pink colorway at a real desk.
JBuds Sport 4
A mid-tier, high-performance earbud with powerful ANC and swipe controls.
Work Buds
Call-focused earbuds with a removable boom mic, for good call quality on the go. Two Best of CES awards.
Flow Ergonomic Set
An ergonomic keyboard and mouse for the workday.
JBuds Protect
Hearing protection that still sounds good.
Epic Mechanical Keyboard
JLab's first mechanical keyboard.
Earlier work — Design Integrity, 2018–2021
Consultancy projects: heavier on research, ideation walls, and physical prototyping. Full process in the 2021 portfolio pdf.
A Subtler Tile for Athletics — Sport Court
A modular outdoor sport-court tile whose pattern is discovered, not announced. Sketch walls, laser-cut prototypes, and a concept-review matrix down to three finalists.
Powered Cart Controls — Cannon Equipment
Safety-first control design for a motorized warehouse cart, tested as physical mockups on real carts.
Pump Consolidation — Warren-Rupp
Two merging pump brands, one shared body: fewer parts, easier maintenance, both identities kept.
Ant Bait Pipeline — Spectrum Brands
A five-year product-opportunity study: shelf audits, jobs-to-be-done, 13 concept areas, 7 user-tested — ending in the "Barricades" baseboard bait. The design patent came from this work.
Precision Vaporizer — Alleviate Labs
Precision was the whole brief: an exact, adjustable dose you can trust. Lead design by Peter Muller; my hands on sketches, CAD, and renders.
Software — JLab
JLab App
Redesigned from the ground up — 2M+ downloads, and a 1.7 → 4.2-star climb in the Play Store. A desktop companion app is rolling out across the gaming and work lines now.
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