Kevin Yoo's guest appearances

Kevin Yoo

The Mentors

The Impossible Network

11:59 Young, Gifted & Transitioning

Midstage Startup Momentum

Compassion & Courage: Conversations in Healthcare

Keith Kirkland

Gillian Burke

Carmen Medina

Barbara Anderson

Maysoon Zayid

Emily Oberman

Yana Buhrer Tavanier

Ryan Watson

Jessica Carson

Scott Duncan

Graham MacIndoe

Susan Stellin

Ben Hartley

Cristina Jiménez

Graeme Reid

OwlTail

On this episode of C&amp;C, Marcus interviews Kevin Yoo, a designer, entrepreneur and creator of wearable technology. Kevin shares his journey into design, his love of art and design and how we can integrate design to create better experiences for patients and caregivers alike. Kevin shares the inspiration for WearWorks’ Wayband technology and how it benefits not only people living with a visual impairment, but that it ultimately can be used for clinicians, patients and really, anyone! Key topics:[2:08] Kevin’s background in design[4:53] What is design?[7:05] How universal design led Kevin to co-found WearWorks[10:40] Why relying on haptic technology was the best option for WearWorks’ universal design[14:53] The intuitiveness of the WearWorks design[16:06] “A compass that you can feel”[17:58] Wayband’s journey in production and where it currently stands[19:03] The ease of use and how user friendly the Wayband is[22:12] The compassion behind Kevin’s work[23:48] Kevin shares with us a time when someone was present for him[29:18] Breakthrough healthcare designs out there that excite Kevin[33:27] What piece of art would Kevin take with him on a desert island?[35:47] What fictional character would Kevin be for a day?[36:23] How would Kevin choose to spend $100 if it had to be spent on himself? Resources for you:Learn more about WearWorks: https://www.wear.works/Download the Wayband app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wayband/id1405786049Preorder your Wayband device: https://www.wear.works/preorderLearn more about Maya Lin’s artwork: https://stormking.org/artist/maya-lin/Listen to the C&amp;C episode with Kevin’s co-founder, Keith Kirkland: https://bit.ly/cc-KeithKirklandConnect with Kevin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoodesigned/Connect with Marcus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusengel/Subscribe to the podcast through Apple: https://bit.ly/MarcusEngelPodcastSubscribe to the podcast through Spotify: https://bit.ly/Spotify-MarcusEngelPodcast Learn more about Kevin Yoo:Kevin is a born entrepreneur with a heavy focus on Product Design and Sustainability, combined with a passion for human-centric innovation and a background in haptics. He has a keen sense of new growth in business, the market, and technology.  Date: 04/11/2022Name of show: Compassion &amp; Courage: Conversations in HealthcareEpisode title and number: Episode 46 – Kevin Yoo: The Compassion Behind Universal Design

On this episode of C&amp;C, Marcus interviews Kevin Yoo, a designer, entrepreneur and creator of wearable technology. Kevin shares his journey into design, his love of art and design and how we can integrate design to create better experiences for patients and caregivers alike. Kevin shares the inspiration for WearWorks’ Wayband technology and how it benefits not only people living with a visual impairment, but that it ultimately can be used for clinicians, patients and really, anyone! Key topics:<ul><li>[2:08] Kevin’s background in design</li><li>[4:53] What is design?</li><li>[7:05] How universal design led Kevin to co-found WearWorks</li><li>[10:40] Why relying on haptic technology was the best option for WearWorks’ universal design</li><li>[14:53] The intuitiveness of the WearWorks design</li><li>[16:06] “A compass that you can feel”</li><li>[17:58] Wayband’s journey in production and where it currently stands</li><li>[19:03] The ease of use and how user friendly the Wayband is</li><li>[22:12] The compassion behind Kevin’s work</li><li>[23:48] Kevin shares with us a time when someone was present for him</li><li>[29:18] Breakthrough healthcare designs out there that excite Kevin</li><li>[33:27] What piece of art would Kevin take with him on a desert island?</li><li>[35:47] What fictional character would Kevin be for a day?</li><li>[36:23] How would Kevin choose to spend $100 if it had to be spent on himself?</li></ul> Resources for you:<ul><li>Learn more about WearWorks: <a href="https://www.wear.works/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wear.works/</a></li><li>Download the Wayband app: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wayband/id1405786049" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wayband/id1405786049</a></li><li>Preorder your Wayband device: <a href="https://www.wear.works/preorder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wear.works/preorder</a></li><li>Learn more about Maya Lin’s artwork: <a href="https://stormking.org/artist/maya-lin/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://stormking.org/artist/maya-lin/</a></li><li>Listen to the C&amp;C episode with Kevin’s co-founder, Keith Kirkland: <a href="https://bit.ly/cc-KeithKirkland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/cc-KeithKirkland</a></li><li>Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoodesigned/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoodesigned/</a></li><li>Connect with Marcus on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusengel/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusengel/</a></li><li>Subscribe to the podcast through Apple: <a href="https://bit.ly/MarcusEngelPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/MarcusEngelPodcast</a></li><li>Subscribe to the podcast through Spotify: <a href="https://bit.ly/Spotify-MarcusEngelPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/Spotify-MarcusEngelPodcast</a></li></ul> Learn more about Kevin Yoo:Kevin is a born entrepreneur with a heavy focus on Product Design and Sustainability, combined with a passion for human-centric innovation and a background in haptics. He has a keen sense of new growth in business, the market, and technology.  Date: 04/11/2022Name of show: Compassion &amp; Courage: Conversations in HealthcareEpisode title and number: Episode 46 – Kevin Yoo: The Compassion Behind Universal Design

Kevin Yoo: The Compassion Behind Universal Design

With so much innovation in the world right now, what is the new frontier for technology? According to WearWorks co-founders Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo, that new frontier is the sense of touch. WearWorks is a startup that’s focused on communicating using the sense of touch. The company’s first product Wayband is a navigation tool that uses only the sense of touch and is geared toward blind and vision-impaired individuals. Keith and Kevin recently joined startup coach Roland Siebelink on the Midstage Startup Momentum Podcast to discuss how they arrived at this new frontier and how they’ve managed to navigate it to this point.  The importance of understanding what the market or your target customer is missing.  Recognizing that teams grow and develop ideas, not individuals.  Why you don’t always have to agree with your co-founders but you should respect them.  How to recognize when something might be bad in the short-term but good in the long run.  Why it’s important for startups to have an extended family outside of their employees.  The concept of co-founders constantly merging their perspectives together. 

With so much innovation in the world right now, what is the new frontier for technology? According to WearWorks co-founders Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo, that new frontier is the sense of touch. WearWorks is a startup that’s focused on communicating using the sense of touch. The company’s first product Wayband is a navigation tool that uses only the sense of touch and is geared toward blind and vision-impaired individuals. Keith and Kevin recently joined startup coach Roland Siebelink on the Midstage Startup Momentum Podcast to discuss how they arrived at this new frontier and how they’ve managed to navigate it to this point. <ul> <li>The importance of understanding what the market or your target customer is missing. </li> <li>Recognizing that teams grow and develop ideas, not individuals. </li> <li>Why you don’t always have to agree with your co-founders but you should respect them. </li> <li>How to recognize when something might be bad in the short-term but good in the long run. </li> <li>Why it’s important for startups to have an extended family outside of their employees. </li> <li>The concept of co-founders constantly merging their perspectives together.</li> </ul>

WearWorks Cofounders Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo: You Get Much Better Products When You Don’t Agree

Guest overview This week's guests Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear Works.In part one we cover the challenges they both overcame growing up.    Keith was born into a loving family but faced growing up in one the most violent towns in the US, Camden, New Jersey. Always feeling an outsider, and a high performer he saw education as his way to escape the streets of Camden and avoid becoming just another statistic in the list of black male deaths under the age of 26Kevin was born in South Korea but faced the culture shock of moving to the US age 10 and navigating his way through school during a time his family was in survival mode.   While both Kevin and Keith grew up with economic scarcity each enjoyed an abundance of support and love.We cover their parallel paths to studying Industrial design at New York’s Pratt school. Keith explains how his a love of art, talent for math as well as some soul searching questions from a Professor set him on a path to Industrial Design Keith unpacks his circuitous path from art, engineering, to selling shoes to show and handbag design to studying Industrial design at Pratt.  I think this show demonstrates how persistence, hard work and willpower, wins in the end. I hope you enjoy the early insights on Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo. In part two we dive deep into their experience as start up founders, the challenges they have faced and overcome and their vision for the future of haptic technology. Social links Kevin’s Linkedin Keith’s Linkedin Links in the showWear WorksFIT Pratt Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest overview This week's guests Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear Works.In part one we cover the challenges they both overcame growing up.    Keith was born into a loving family but faced growing up in one the most violent towns in the US, Camden, New Jersey. Always feeling an outsider, and a high performer he saw education as his way to escape the streets of Camden and avoid becoming just another statistic in the list of black male deaths under the age of 26Kevin was born in South Korea but faced the culture shock of moving to the US age 10 and navigating his way through school during a time his family was in survival mode.   While both Kevin and Keith grew up with economic scarcity each enjoyed an abundance of support and love.We cover their parallel paths to studying Industrial design at New York’s Pratt school. Keith explains how his a love of art, talent for math as well as some soul searching questions from a Professor set him on a path to Industrial Design Keith unpacks his circuitous path from art, engineering, to selling shoes to show and handbag design to studying Industrial design at Pratt.  I think this show demonstrates how persistence, hard work and willpower, wins in the end. I hope you enjoy the early insights on Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo. In part two we dive deep into their experience as start up founders, the challenges they have faced and overcome and their vision for the future of haptic technology. Social links <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoodesigned/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin’s Linkedin </a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/klkirkland/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Keith’s Linkedin </a> Links in the show<a href="https://www.wear.works/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Wear Works</a><a href="https://www.fitnyc.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">FIT</a> <a href="https://www.pratt.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Pratt</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

123: Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo - Upbringing To Start-Up Founders

Guest overview This week's guests Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear WorksIn part one we cover the challenges they both overcame growing up.    Keith was born into a loving family but faced growing up in one the most violent towns in the US, Camden, New Jersey. Always feeling an outsider, and a high performer he saw education as his way to escape the streets of Camden and avoid becoming just another statistic in the list of black male deaths under the age of 26Kevin was born in South Korea but faced the culture shock of moving to the US age 10 and navigating his way through school during a time his family was in survival mode.   While both Kevin and Keith grew up with economic scarcity each enjoyed  an abundance of support and love.We cover their parallel paths to studying Industrial design at New York’s Pratt school. Keith explains how his a love of art, talent for math as well as some soul searching questions from a Professor set him on a path to Industrial Design Keith unpacks his circuitous path from art, engineering, to selling shoes to show and handbag design to studying Industrial design at Pratt.  I think this show demonstrates how persistence, hard work and willpower, wins in the end. I hope you enjoy the early insights on Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo. In part two we dive deep into their experience as start up founders, the challenges they have faced and overcome and their vision for the future of haptic technology. Social links Kevin’s Linkedin Keith’s Linkedin Links in the showWear WorksFIT Pratt See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guest overview This week's guests Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo are co-founders of Wearable tech start up Wear WorksIn part one we cover the challenges they both overcame growing up.     Keith was born into a loving family but faced growing up in one the most violent towns in the US, Camden, New Jersey. Always feeling an outsider, and a high performer he saw education as his way to escape the streets of Camden and avoid becoming just another statistic in the list of black male deaths under the age of 26Kevin was born in South Korea but faced the culture shock of moving to the US age 10 and navigating his way through school during a time his family was in survival mode.    While both Kevin and Keith grew up with economic scarcity each enjoyed  an abundance of support and love.We cover their parallel paths to studying Industrial design at New York’s Pratt school. Keith explains how his a love of art, talent for math as well as some soul searching questions from a Professor set him on a path to Industrial Design  Keith unpacks his circuitous path from art, engineering, to selling shoes to show and handbag design to studying Industrial design at Pratt.   I think this show demonstrates how persistence, hard work and willpower, wins in the end. I hope you enjoy the early insights on Keith Kirkland and Kevin Yoo. In part two we dive deep into their experience as start up founders, the challenges they have faced and overcome and their vision for the future of haptic technology.  Social links <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoodesigned/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Kevin’s Linkedin </a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/klkirkland/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Keith’s Linkedin </a> Links in the show<a href="https://www.wear.works/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Wear Works</a><a href="https://www.fitnyc.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">FIT</a> <a href="https://www.pratt.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Pratt</a> See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

How do you take an idea for a new hardware innovation and attract funding for it? You have to start with the prototype. In part two of our interview with Kevin Yoo we find out how the founder of WearWorks became so inspired to work on the R&amp;D for his product for several years, getting accepted into BMW's URBAN-X accelerator and attracting half a million dollars in grants and investment in the process.We discuss the importance of branding, especially for a physical product where the experience of the consumer begins when they first interact with the brand, heavily influencing how they feel when they first handle the product. Kevin also tells us why he would be happy to work on this business for the rest of his life, and the vision he sees for the future of navigation and his company.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you take an idea for a new hardware innovation and attract funding for it? You have to start with the prototype. In part two of our interview with Kevin Yoo we find out how the founder of <a href="wear.works" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WearWorks</a> became so inspired to work on the R&amp;D for his product for several years, getting accepted into BMW's URBAN-X accelerator and attracting half a million dollars in grants and investment in the process.We discuss the importance of branding, especially for a physical product where the experience of the consumer begins when they first interact with the brand, heavily influencing how they feel when they first handle the product. Kevin also tells us why he would be happy to work on this business for the rest of his life, and the vision he sees for the future of navigation and his company.  Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks – Part II

Sometimes our day jobs do little for us inspirationally outside of helping us pay our bills and keep us financially stable. It can be difficult to determine whether or not you should grind it out at your 9-5 or quit to pursue your real passion. Well Korean-American millennial and working Chef Kevin Yoo has found his niche with side hustles on his journey to being a Master Chef. As a business professional by day and a chef at one of the most pristine Chicago restaurants by night, Kevin pulls from experiencing the joys of cooking as a young boy to help maintain and build his dreams of being a chef while transitioning from college into the working world. Kevin discusses everything from his restaurant owning dreams, to starting out at a restaurant buss boy in order to reach that ultimate goal. Whether Kevin's story of the grind makes you hungry for ambition, or a juicy burger, we encourage you to soak in all you can from Kevin’s journey of fostering a true side hustle while keeping a full time job!! Who knows, maybe you’ll see him at Girl and the Goat 🐐during your next reservation 👀!! As always, follow us on IG @1159YGTPodcast, @Mizz_jazz, and @Kenyattasacha!!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

Sometimes our day jobs do little for us inspirationally outside of helping us pay our bills and keep us financially stable. It can be difficult to determine whether or not you should grind it out at your 9-5 or quit to pursue your real passion. Well Korean-American millennial and working Chef Kevin Yoo has found his niche with side hustles on his journey to being a Master Chef. As a business professional by day and a chef at one of the most pristine Chicago restaurants by night, Kevin pulls from experiencing the joys of cooking as a young boy to help maintain and build his dreams of being a chef while transitioning from college into the working world. Kevin discusses everything from his restaurant owning dreams, to starting out at a restaurant buss boy in order to reach that ultimate goal. Whether Kevin's story of the grind makes you hungry for ambition, or a juicy burger, we encourage you to soak in all you can from Kevin’s journey of fostering a true side hustle while keeping a full time job!! Who knows, maybe you’ll see him at Girl and the Goat 🐐during your next reservation 👀!! As always, follow us on IG <a href="https://www.instagram.com/1159ygtpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@1159YGTPodcast</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mizz_jazz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Mizz_jazz</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kenyattasacha/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@Kenyattasacha</a>!!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

104: Passion to Purpose W/Side Hustle Pro & Line Cook Kevin Yoo

While most of us don't have everything figured out, there are others that seem to navigate life with the help of an invisible compass. This week we met with one such person, Kevin Yoo, the founder of WearWorks, which is creating the future of navigation using haptic feedback - ie, leveraging feel and touch, not sight. In college he already became an award winning industrial designer which quickly lead to opportunities to work on projects with large corporations like GE. It was during that time that he started to realize what his purpose was and what truly motivated him to act. In part one of our interview with Kevin we learn about his origin story and what prepared him to build a product designed for the blind and vision impaired, ultimately landing his team into NYTimes,The Discovery Channel, TechCrunch, and a TED Talk earlier this year. We discuss how he recruited an all star team and why he realized early on that his goal in life would be to bring people together to build things that matter. In part two Kevin talks about how he iterated on the original concept to turn it into a business, how his team was able to secure half a million dollars in funding, and the various applications of the technology they're building today that makes his new product revolutionary. If you're interested in supporting WearWorks consider contributing to their Kickstarter and get early access to their first product, Wayband.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While most of us don't have everything figured out, there are others that seem to navigate life with the help of an invisible compass. This week we met with one such person, Kevin Yoo, the founder of <a href="https://www.wear.works/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WearWorks</a>, which is creating the future of navigation using haptic feedback - ie, leveraging feel and touch, not sight. In college he already became an award winning industrial designer which quickly lead to opportunities to work on projects with large corporations like GE. It was during that time that he started to realize what his purpose was and what truly motivated him to act. In part one of our interview with Kevin we learn about his origin story and what prepared him to build a product designed for the blind and vision impaired, ultimately landing his team into NYTimes,The Discovery Channel, TechCrunch, and a <a href="https://www.wear.works/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TED Talk</a> earlier this year. We discuss how he recruited an all star team and why he realized early on that his goal in life would be to bring people together to build things that matter. In part two Kevin talks about how he iterated on the original concept to turn it into a business, how his team was able to secure half a million dollars in funding, and the various applications of the technology they're building today that makes his new product revolutionary. If you're interested in supporting WearWorks consider contributing to their <a href="https://www.wear.works/kickstarter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a> and get early access to their first product, Wayband.  Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.