Alex Hill

About Alex Hill

Like many, I envision a future where the digital and physical worlds seamlessly combine to create a compelling and powerful user experience. While visualizing this potential is now a mainstay of contemporary film and television, the real challenge lies not in generating rich graphics but in deftly managing the broad spectrum of potential user input. This challenge is at the heart of 3D user interface research and requires a healthy skepticism that 3D and gesture-based user interfaces are inherently superior to traditional interfaces.With a combined 20 years experience in commercial implementation, artistic collaboration and academic research on non-traditional user interfaces, I bring an exceptionally broad set of skills to the problem of moving towards an augmented reality future without losing sight of the fundamental user experience along the way. Among those skills, I count an ability to work in a visual medium both through communication of ideas and design critique, an ability to communicate with constituents from end user to CEO, and extensive practical experience designing, prototyping and developing virtual and augmented reality software.Specialties: 3D User Interfaces, Non-traditional Interface UX, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision

Experience

1. Principal Innovation Engineer

   PTC

   Jun 2020 — Present · Charleston, SC, US

Education

• Trinity University

  BS, Mathematics

  1984 — 1989

• The University of Texas at Austin

  MS, Mechanical Engineering

  1989 — 1992

• University of Illinois Chicago

  PHD, Human Computer Interaction

  1999 — 2007

Skills

• Linux System Administration
• Android Development
• Enterprise Software
• Javascript
• Ios Development
• Java
• User Interface Design
• Mean Stack
• C#
• Unity
• User Experience Design
• Cloud Computing
• Software Architectural Design