Nicolas Denhez is a French-American Industrial Designer and Creative Director based in Seattle.

He is passionate about creating products that people love to use and play a meaningful role in their lives. His body of work reflects a vision of making elegant and sophisticated products while removing technological complexity. He currently enjoys the challenge of designing human-centered products for spatial computing.

Nicolas is a proven design leader with experience designing successful and innovative products for the consumer electronics, gaming, personal computing, and medical industries. He has received numerous national and international design awards for his work and is highly recognized for his contributions to the design and product development community. Nicolas has received more than one hundred patents and is a Good Design Ambassador.  He is currently Senior Director of Design in the Microsoft Devices Design Team and, for the past decade, has led the design of HoloLens and Xbox gaming devices.

Prior to Microsoft, Denhez was Lead Industrial Designer and Art Director at Dell in Austin, Texas, where he led the premium Adamo/xps line of products leading all phases of design efforts: developing consumer design language, technology development, driving CMF developments, overseeing manufacturing and cross-functional collaboration in addition to setting the design vision for the XPS line (performance, gaming). His iconic Adamo laptop received broad acclaim both inside and outside the design industry and was featured prominently in movies and publications at the time of it’s release.

Before joining Dell, Denhez was a Lead designer at Samsung Wireless Design Lab in Los Angeles, where he worked on advanced design proposals for mobile phones and accessories to inform Korea’s headquarter roadmap.

Nicolas started his professional career in the Bay Area working as a senior designer at Lunar Design. During his tenure there Nicolas worked on a diverse range of products for clients such as Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Palm, Dell, and Oral-B. His early exposure to this rich and entrepreneurial environment continues to inform all aspects of Denhez’s work to this day.

Denhez was also a founding member of designRAW, a San Francisco-based avant-garde global design collective whose intention was to explore how objects can excite our sensibilities and engage us to reflect on culture and society.

Paris Born, Nicolas Denhez studied at Art Center College of Design Europe in Montreux, Switzerland, and at Institut Superieur de Design in Valenciennes, France.

Throughout his extensive career Nicolas Denhez’s work has been recognized with numerous International Design Awards, including the prestigious IF Design “Best of the Best” and an inclusion in Business Insider as a top designer in technology.  He has received numerous awards from IDEA/BusinessWeek, ID Magazine, Chicago Athenaeum, Good Design, IF Industrie Hannover and Red Dot. His work has been featured internationally in venues such as Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York MOMA, Chicago Athenaeum Museum, San Francisco Design Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, and Pasadena Museum of California Art. Denhez and his work have also been featured in numerous books and publications, including the New York Times, Surface, Dwell, Intramuros, ID magazine, Core 77, Form, Car Styling, Annual Design Book and Design Report.