Leto was a Microsoft-led collaboration between Kodak Consumer Products and LG Electronics, to explore the concept of bringing high-end photography to the smartphone market (circa 2012).
Envisioned as a showcase product, bringing state of the art imaging technology (provided by Kodak R&D), together with a best-in-class LTE smartphone, and powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS, Leto unfortunately fell victim to changing product strategies.
This still provided me with one of the most interesting design challenges of my career: build the bridges between three different companies each with differing design philosophies, cultures, and product goals‐ to ultimately find common ground in a shared vision, and uncompromising user-first approach.
