Julius Tarng
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Julius Tarng

Software Imagineering in Dallas, Texas, He/they

new collab drop: ~moonlight, a space for social tarot~ twitter.com/djbaskin/statu…

6 months ago

About

I like to learn how to make things. I run an independent software imagineering studio called Toolshop helping startups prototype and ship new ideas for computing. Read more: read.cv/teams/toolshop

Teams

Current
Toolshop

Projects

2023

Chat interface for Anthropic's Claude LLM

+3
2023

A space for social tarot. Explore beautiful decks. Do tarot with friends. Start an interactive ritual.

+3
2022

Customize your web with the Boosts in Arc :)

+3
2022

A co-learning community of designers helping each other build their technical intuition and learn the mental models behind software.

+1
2021
Felt

The world's first multiplayer map-making tool

+3
2020
Secret Design Tool

A new design tool for people who like to write

2020

Virtual shared spaces to meet, create, and play

+2
2019

End-user programming for web designers

+1
2017
Pixelcloud

Design collaboration network

2016

Prototyping is design!

2015
Design Pack

Design system infrastructure at scale

2012

Guaranteed to be your favorite spatula, 5 stars on Amazon!

2010

College thesis on a more human phone — brand, industrial design, and interaction!

Side Projects

2021

Browser extension that replaces "web3" with "my butt" (or some other reasonable variant). Tribute to the classic cloud2butt!

+1
2021

Blog together with cyber buds, an experiment with multiplayer animated co-writing

+1
2019

Konmari your Twitter follows~ open source and remixable!

+1
2018

Series of games done for game jams in 2018 using Pico-8~

Work Experience

2020 — Now

Design prototyping, front-end engineering (specializing in highly interactive spatial interfaces)

Clients:
The Browser Company
Felt
Sprout (formerly MakeSpace)
Constellate
Moonlight
Tango
Hidden Door
Everyprompt
Tome
Holium
Read.CV
Credit Karma
Components.ai
Somewhere Good
Clay

2019 — 2020
Principal Product Designer at Webflow
2014 — 2017
Design Tools Lead at Facebook
2012 — 2014
Product Designer at Branch
2011 — 2012
Industrial Designer at Smart Design

Features

2021
2019

Tidy Up Your Cluttered Twitter Feed With This KonMari Tool

Education

2020 — 2020
Recreating the Past at School for Poetic Computation
2007 — 2011
Industrial Design, Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University

Contact

Twitter
GitHub