A hero image of a Pibble app mockup on top of a blue platform.

Pibble

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Timeline

December 2023 - May 2024

Role

Product Designer, Visual Designer, Brand & Marketing Strategist

Tools

Figma, Illustrator, Discord, Zoom, Google Slides

About

Pet owners have to manage a difficult balance with managing their cats’ nutritional needs whilst also working busy schedules. Pibble One is a premium automatic wet food feeder that is designed to make owners’ lives easier and their pets’ lives healthier. It is the first automatic wet feeder that is self cleaning, compatible with any wet food brand, and can store up to 1 week of food. This automatic wet food feeder accommodates cats’ preferences while ensuring a clean and healthy eating experience. With features like self-cleaning and dynamic portioning, Pibble drastically simplifies pet care.

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Skills

Cross-Functional Collaboration
Information Architecture
Wireframing
Medium-Fidelity Prototyping
High-Fidelity Prototyping
Pitch Deck Design
Branding
Marketing Strategy

Process

1. Receive assignment from Pibble team, accompanied with needs and requests
2. Present first pass to Pibble team
3. Iterate on first pass based on feedback
4. Present final pass to Pibble team

Mobile Prototype

Along with the Information Architecture map, I also presented the Pibble team a prototype of the mobile application, which would sync to a physical feeding device for remote control of portions and times.

Click through the mobile prototype.

Website Mockup

To sell and provide information on the product, the team wanted to create an ecommerce site. This site could also serve as a Help Center and troubleshooting forum.

Explore the website prototype.

Branding

For Pibble’s brand messaging, I wanted to keep things cute and lighthearted, but also simple and minimal. To the greatest extent I could, I snuck cats or cat-themed objects into all graphics (such as yarn that served as line dividers, or a cat tower in place of a traditional TAM/SAM/SOM chart).

Accounting for future expansions of the venture, I designed the logo so that the “P” could have multiple variants that looked like other animal heads.

A branding guideline for Pibble, which includes logo, fonts, and colors used.
Branding guideline for Pibble.

Pitch Deck

In pitching to VC firms, the Pibble team went through multiple iterations of their pitch and investor decks. This is a compilation of my favorite slides I’ve created for them, and is in no way representative of their current pitch deck.

My favorite slides I’ve made for Pibble.

The Meowseum

Pibble was a startup venture borne out of students attending Cornell Tech. At Cornell Tech’s open house event, Open Studio, we had the opportunity to advertise and showcase Pibble to visitors and attendees. As part of our advertising and marketing strategy, I created a ‘Meowseum’, which parodied famous artworks using Pibble’s colors and mascot. 

Starry night is reimagined with sleeping cats replacing the landscape and a cat tower replacing the cypress tree in the foreground. The exhibit piece features a museum label with title, “Pibble One (c. 2024), Jarfield Dreaming of His Next Meal”, with the description reading: “A premium self-cleaning automatic wet food feeder. Less cleaning, more flexibility. It’s that simple. It’s Pibble.”
“The Starry Night” reimagined with Pibble visuals.
A whiteboard with several posters depicting the Pibble blue cat in “The Son of Man”, “The Scream”, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”, “The Treachery of Images”, and “Starry Night”.
Our exhibit of “famous” Pibble works. 
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Takeaways

Working with Pibble allowed me to challenge the extent of my creativity. Oftentimes, the team would give me a basic outline of what they expected, and it was my role to see how I could enhance their vision. Because I was working on Pibble, Veloda, academic research, and my own classwork at the same time, I had to become really adept at time management in order to juggle and excel in all these tasks.