# Austin McCasland

> Staff Product Designer specializing in AI and spatial computing. Currently at Meta Reality Labs. Portfolio of work across spatial design, desktop & mobile interfaces, and AI.

## Pages

- [Home](https://austastic.com/md/home.md): Who Austin is, selected work, contact
- [Spatial Design](https://austastic.com/md/work/spatial-xr.md): Spatial computing, mixed reality, and AR work
- [Desktop & Mobile](https://austastic.com/md/work/interfaces-mobile.md): Creator tools, enterprise, and mobile work
- [AI as Design Material](https://austastic.com/md/work/ai-as-design-material.md): AI side projects and design philosophy

## Case studies

- [Quest Mixed Reality Platform](https://austastic.com/md/work/quest-mr-platform.md): Led platform design for the scene model, Instant Placement API, and spatial capabilities that ship on every Quest headset - shaping how the device understands the physical world and how developers build on top of it.
- [Hyperscape](https://austastic.com/md/work/hyperscape.md): Turn any room into a photorealistic world you can explore with friends. Launched to the public at Meta Connect to the Quest 3 and 3S to rave reviews.
- [Paint Space AR](https://austastic.com/md/work/paint-space-ar.md): A mobile AR app that lets you draw in midair and paint the world. Designed and developed solo, and one of the most downloaded AR entertainment apps of the year on iOS.
- [Google Daydream](https://austastic.com/md/work/google-ar.md): On a small team that helped product groups across Google find real uses for computer vision, machine learning, and AR - through rapid prototyping, not decks. Presented the playbook at Google I/O 2019.
- [Spark AR Platform](https://austastic.com/md/work/spark-ar.md): I designed new platform capabilities into the Spark editor and runtime - the tools creators used to ship effects to hundreds of millions of people across Instagram, Messenger, and Portal.
- [Orion AR Glasses](https://austastic.com/md/work/orion.md): Designed early experiences for Orion, Meta's AR glasses, including holographic calling, messaging, and spatial activities that informed the device's direction.
- [Parsable](https://austastic.com/md/work/parsable.md): Co-designed a multi-platform system for creating, managing, and completing procedures in industrial environments, replacing paper-based workflows.
- [Eat Roulette](https://austastic.com/md/work/eat-roulette.md): Eat Roulette randomly chooses a place for you to eat, drink, or get caffeinated and guides you there. I developed it solo; the design was a collaboration with Jared Lodwick.
- [Jan's Jubilee](https://austastic.com/md/work/jans-jubilee.md): A virtual reality memory viewing experience created for my grandmother's 75th Diamond Jubilee birthday, delivered to 250+ guests via Google Cardboard at a party in Colorado.
- [Udacity VR](https://austastic.com/md/work/udacity-vr.md): Designed and developed a mobile VR application for Udacity's VR Developer Nanodegree, solving the problem of creating a VR experience when not everyone in the audience has a headset.
- [Cisco Spark](https://austastic.com/md/work/cisco-spark.md): Led future-looking research and design for Cisco Spark's collaboration platform, including the Windows desktop app and mobile features.
- [Revel Pittsburgh](https://austastic.com/md/work/revel-pittsburgh.md): Researched and designed a community network for the aging population in Pittsburgh, transforming a static information portal into an activity-hosting platform. The redesign helped Revel secure Series A funding.
- [AI Enabled Portfolio](https://austastic.com/md/work/portfolio-site.md): A portfolio built with AI at every layer: inline content workshopping with Haiku, a custom MCP bridge to Claude, dev mode for live editing, and a visitor-facing conversational interface.
- [Magic Draft Assistant](https://austastic.com/md/work/mtga-drafter.md): A transparent desktop overlay for Magic: The Gathering Arena. Reads the game log, queries 17lands for stats, and asks Claude Sonnet to grade each pick with reasoning - all within the 60-second window.

## Contact

- Email: austastic@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austastic/
- Web: https://austastic.com