We make fake people that use your real product.

An interactive animation, engineering, and design agency I cofounded.

Our client list included: Tumblr, SalesForce, Tiny Capital, Here be Dragons, Hodinkee, Passion Pit, Francis & The Lights, Reggie Watts, Impending, Vice, Scripps Networks, and Shape Matrix.

I helped design the initial version of the Beme app. We pioneered many features, which later found their way into the top social media apps.

A Computer Made for Art. It was designed to fade into the background, like a photograph or painting.

I was responsible for the software that powered the backend, which hosted the artwork and controlled what was displayed on the screen.

Tumblr’s first designer, creative director, and product engineer.

I was responsible for a multitude of features, including the dashboard wireframes and color palettes still in use.

I joined as the 5th employee, and when I quit there were over 300 employees.

I initially focused on static designs, began building them myself, and over time transitioned fully to product engineering.

A blind, silent, sealed auction built on Ethereum. I wrote a custom contract and backend to facilitate the auction mechanics.

A realtime multiplayer game where you collaborate to put out simulated forest fires. Designed in collaboration with synthesis.com, an online school designed to teach kids age 7 to 15 using custom games.

I designed the gameplay, and built a custom Javascript rendering engine and Node & Go based backend.

it was an online resume generator.... 🤔

A piece of paper in the cloud. It grew to millions of notes, but got overrun with spam so I shut it down.

A site to save your favorite links, you made it your homepage. I wrote the original version of the site when I was 15, re-wrote it a handful of times, and maintained the final incarnation of it for about 15 years.

A quick and silly idea that ended up getting a ton of press, and our Stripe account disabled.

A custom built browser-based, realtime, multi-player drawing engine we built for fun. I wrote the drawing engine and the realtime backend.

It briefly went viral, resulting in a lot of wildly inappropriate drawings.

What happens when a country coop moonlights as an experiment in photography?

Allan Yu and Jacob Bijani's NFT project is a testament to binding design and art concordantly; and their blind and silent auction mechanisms are blueprints for more diverse functionalities