Dust To Design
by
GEORGE SKINDILIAS


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- Is Ai Moral

About

Hi I’m George and I do 

Industrial Design

Prototyping

Multidisiplinary Thinking

User Human Experience design

“Vibe” Coding

Ideation

DFM

AI Exploration

Rapid Prototyping

Accessible Design



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Sketchy  

Quick Concepts
Prototypes
Experiments
Project Snippets
Interaction Sketches

Sketchy is where early ideas live. It’s a curated mess of quick concepts, scrappy prototypes, design experiments, and technical explorations.

Often unfinished, sometimes absurd, always chasing a thought. This section values momentum over polish: a space to think through making, and make through thinking.



Headless MacBook Pro

Hardware Hack & Quick Conversion

When my old MacBook Pro’s display gave out, covered in vertical lines and constant glitching, I didn’t toss it. I followed a few teardown tutorials, removed the screen entirely, and brought it back as a headless MacBook. Sort of like a Mac Mini, but with a built-in keyboard and trackpad. Now it’s a compact all-in-one desktop, perfect for day-to-day tasks or even as a dedicated machine for VR.

        Purpose:
Give new life to broken but
       powerful hardware

        Approach: Strip the screen, reuse internals,
        no extra parts or enclosures

        Reflection: A quick fix at first, but in the
      end, who knows, maybe there’s a product                  hiding in here






Industrial Design One-Hour Ideations
Rapid Concept ideation - School

Each concept was completed in just one hour as part of a school exercise in fast-paced ideation. The goal was to quickly develop and communicate product ideas with strong form and intent, using only pen and paper.

These sketches focused on speed, clarity, and creativity, training our ability to make quick decisions, explore variations, and tell a clear story through visual form. The results often included clever twists on everyday objects or playful experiments in proportion and interaction.






Hat Pin
Concept Ideation & Quick Prototype

A modular LED hat pin that blinks once per minute, designed as a minimal visibility aid inspired by my experience with hemianopia. It uses a self-blinking diode and a coin cell battery, housed in a universal casing that mounts to any hat.

Prototype built using battery candle parts.

       Purpose: Passive visibility for those with
        partial vision loss

       
Approach: Prototype the experience, No
        PCB, no switches just blink and go

        Reflection: Simplicity can be more inclusive






Headless MacBook Pro

Hardware Hack & Quick Conversion

When my old MacBook Pro’s display gave out, covered in vertical lines and constant glitching, I didn’t toss it. I followed a few teardown tutorials, removed the screen entirely, and brought it back as a headless MacBook. Sort of like a Mac Mini, but with a built-in keyboard and trackpad. Now it’s a compact all-in-one desktop, perfect for day-to-day tasks or even as a dedicated machine for VR.

        Purpose:
Give new life to broken but
       powerful hardware

        Approach: Strip the screen, reuse internals,
        no extra parts or enclosures

        Reflection: A quick fix at first, but in the
      end, who knows, maybe there’s a product                  hiding in here






Facecam as Interface


Inspired by screen recording tools that let you move your own webcam around, I wondered, what if viewers could do the same? I sketched some ideas, then started thinking: how could I prototype this without building a whole video player?

Turns out, the platform I built this portfolio on (Cargo) already had a quirky drag feature, so I used it. Now, visitors can move a fake “webcam” around the screen themselves. It’s not a full product, but it lets you feel the idea, and that’s enough to start a conversation.


                                       
                                   Try dragging the FaceCam 👉
                                       *Stay inside the video frame for true effect