Basheer Tome: Prototyping Hardware Interfaces for Consumer Products

Date & Time:

November 11, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Location:

Crerar 390, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL,

11/11/2025 03:30 PM 11/11/2025 04:30 PM America/Chicago Basheer Tome: Prototyping Hardware Interfaces for Consumer Products Crerar 390, 5730 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL,

This talk is part of the class CMSC20310 ‘Introduction to Designing Interaction.’ If the room fills up, we may ask those not taking the class to enter the zoom link (to be provided onsite, or shared upon request).

Speakers

Basheer Tome

Designer, Sesame

Basheer Tome is a designer who believes that the best design transcends disciplines. His practice involves a wide variety of digital & physical skills spread across disciplines: design, product management, electronics prototyping, programming, and analog form-finding techniques. Before recently joining Sesame to design computing eyewear, he led the internal design & product team at Fellow, co- founded the Pixel Buds at Google, and went to school with Ken at the Tangible Media Group at MIT.

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