LanTing Garra

Vice President, Design

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States

About

My career is dedicated to a goal: shaping the future of public safety and enterprise through human-centered design. I lead global teams that transform complex challenges into intuitive, life-saving solutions for customers, particularly first responders. We achieve this by mastering disciplines from industrial design to High-Velocity Human Factors, ensuring our technology performs under the most extreme pressure. I am proud to guide an innovation-focused team that has been recognized with over 170 global design awards. With 42 U.S. patents, my commitment extends beyond leadership to personal contribution, driving a strategic vision that empowers my team to create a safer, more efficient world.

Experience

  • Motorola Solutions (12 yrs 9 mos)
    • Vice President, Design
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Senior Director, Global Experience Design & Research, Video & Software business operations
      Aug 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

      • Led a global team of 140 people to ensure product experience excellence across Motorola Solutions' business portfolios. • Chief of Staff to the CTO, overseeing operations and strategic initiatives for the Video & Software business. • Implemented innovative design strategies to enhance user experience and drive business growth. • Successfully driven major strategic project vision and execution including APXNEXT, SVX and PCR customer experience

    • Director of Innovation and Design
      Jun 2014 - Aug 2024 · 10 yrs 3 mos

      Owns global responsibilities for innovation strategy and experience design for MSI product ecosystem. Oversees all aspects of innovation and design including customer research, idea envisioning, design strategy and product development. Leads global industrial design teams and design efforts for High Velocity Human Factors - an emerging discipline of Human Factors sciences and psychology that is central to the technology Motorola Solutions designs for first responders. Drive innovation strategy of major transformation in MSI next generation device portfolio and user experience. Leads special project of MSI Future Incident Command - Create thought leadership for the public Safety market leveraging advance technology such as VR/AR.

  • Senior Industrial Designer at Motorola
    May 2003 - Sep 2011 · 8 yrs 5 mos

    • Perform as lead designer in many programs. Handle complete project management. Manage and provide design directions to design consultant and Motorola Penang and Singapore Design studios. • Coordinate and participate in design research. Being main point of contact for the business and engineer teams. • Heavily involved in communication and working with ODM vendors. Participated in high level vendor selection meeting in Asia. • Co-developed the Motorola design language. Contributed to the Motorola Government & Public Safety design language portfolio.

  • Design intern at Thomson Consumer Electronics
    Sep 2001 - Dec 2001 · 4 mos

  • Design Intern at Brooks Stevens Design
    Mar 2001 - Jun 2001 · 4 mos

  • Design Intern at Avon Cosmetics Inc (Taiwan)
    Sep 2000 - Dec 2000 · 4 mos