David Parrott

About David Parrott

I\'m the Founder of Pixel and Timber — a specialized product innovation and development partner for leaders who need to de-risk their R&D portfolios by starting with design that works.Too many firms waste valuable time and resources developing and consumer-testing aesthetically pleasing ideas that are fundamentally incapable of scaling. This failure to account for real-world constraints from the outset leads to invalidated user research, costly rework, and project delays.Pixel and Timber is a skunkworks-inspired studio consultancy that integrates Design for Manufacturing (DFM) into the earliest stage of ideation. We treat real-world constraints—technical, user, and financial—as the essential ingredients of design elegance, ensuring every concept is inherently feasible and scalable before it consumes critical resources. This ensures that your successful consumer-tested concept is the exact product that ships — at the target volume and on budget.Core Expertise: Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Medical Device Development, Scalable Hardware Design, and Advanced Observational User Research (Contextual Inquiry).

Experience

1. Founding Partner

   Pixel And Timber

   Feb 2017 — Present · Cincinnati, OH, US

   As Founder, I established Pixel and Timber as a skunkworks-inspired studio consultancy that accelerates product development by blending user-driven design with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) from the earliest conceptual stages. My work prevents the costly failure cycle of invalidated user research and project delays when designs are found to be non-scalable. Pixel & Timber views manufacturing constraints not as obstacles, but as essential ingredients for design elegance, ensuring every concept is inherently feasible and scalable.

Education

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  Fine Art

  1999 — 2000

• University of Cincinnati

  Bachelor's of Science, Industrial Design

  2001 — 2006

• University of Cincinnati

  Master of Design, Industrial Design

  2007 — 2009

Skills

• Design Thinking
• Rendering
• Concept Design
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Visualization
• Adobe Illustrator
• Model Making
• 3d Visualization
• Sketching
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• Human Factors
• Design for Manufacturing
• Teaching
• Medical Devices
• Concept Development
• Cad
• User-Centered Design
• Solidworks
• Adobe Photoshop
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• Modeling
• Product Development
• Indesign
• Computer-Aided Design (Cad)
• Concept Generation
• Packaging Design
• Idea Generation