ListenHub

ListenHub is a system-wide software monitor controller with iOS, iPadOS and Android remote control apps, keeping essential critical listening controls within reach without cluttering your screen.

As Product Lead I took it from an in-house studio frustration to a shipped product, shaping the strategy, scope, and interaction model through prototyping and user research.

The starting point was a niche problem: setting up surround and reference monitoring meant constantly running between speakers, interfaces, and software. But that pointed at something bigger – the idea that modern software-based music studios had lost the peripheral, at-a-glance control that makes physical studios feel fast. We hypothesised that a remote-controlled, system-wide monitor controller could bring some of that back.

Two things I’m particularly proud of: the research process, which used a screener survey to find “superfans” with the problem rather than generic users and diary studies to capture real use, and what that research actually changed.

Testers were doing elaborate workarounds to switch between speaker and headphone calibration profiles. We had planned to solve that later. Their stories made it obvious it needed to ship first, so we reprioritised before engineering had committed to the original plan.

The UI design was guided by a single principle: be always within reach, but stay out of the way: active states bright and colour-grouped, inactive states dark and neutral, the most panic-inducing control (mute) the largest and most dominant – and auto-activated when needed.

“This software is truly incredible, especially since I can run it off an iPad which allows me to get some insights that I used to do with plugins and various virtual setups in the DAW itself.”

Koen Heldens – XXXTentacion, Beyonce, Rihanna, J-Lo, Dr. Dre

“ListenHub fills a void that not many people realise is there. It’s become an indispensable tool.”

Robbie Dwyer – University of Winchester

Role • Product Lead – strategy, user research, interaction design, visual design, cross-functional delivery