Coolaboratory: Makers of Fine Experience

Coolaboratory is the independent practice of Andrew G Milmoe. He works in user experience design, physical AI, and frontier AI model training, and he supports the maker community.

UX design for complex ecosystems, from the field to the boardroom

He started Coolaboratory in the Oakland Bay Area, doing information architecture and user experience design for global brands by way of local digital agencies.

That same discipline carried him to Chicago, into user experience design and physical AI for hardware startups. He designs industrial IoT for high-stakes physical environments, built for the people running the machines as much as the ones reading the numbers in the boardroom. He turns heavy operational data into something a frontline worker can actually use.

Partial list of Coolaboratory clients

Make:SF

A Bay Area maker community, founded by Andrew in November 2007. Over the next decade it grew to 3,000 active members and produced more than 200 workshops. Participants had the opportunity to build their skills, exchange ideas, collaborate on future projects, and show off the results. He moved on in May 2018.

Make:SF / TheBayMakers booth at a Bay Area maker faire, with adults and children soldering and building at a shared table.
Make:SF booth, Maker Faire Bay Area
Closeup of a wired sensor glove prototype during a wearable-tech demo, with a small group gathered around open laptops.
Members collaborate on sensor glove
A presenter at a whiteboard walks a seated and standing group through an electronics build laid out on a workshop table.
Member demo at TechShop