It's a great spatula and looks like an egg, with 5 stars on [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-Omelet-Turner-Silicone/dp/B00A2KD8LQ)!

```cv
gallery
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```

This project cemented how valuable prototyping was and how much I enjoyed doing it.

```cv
gallery
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```

```cv
gallery
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```

```cv
gallery
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```

Egg Spatula

I've never identified as a creative coder — I'm much more motivated by the process of learning how something is made, compared to using code as a creative tool. I had a chance to take a class framed as "Recreating the Past", which aimed to recreate key programmatic art. It was a great way to understand technology like shaders, and concepts like image processing algorithms,

My final project was a Chinese calligraphy (shufa) simulator. I had studied and practiced in high school, but hated cleanup. Why not try to do it on the computer?

```cv
gallery
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```

```cv
gallery
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```

For the first part of the course, we focused on replicating and remixing work. For example, compare [Arabesque by John Whitney](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE) with my recreation.

```cv
gallery
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```

Often, the most enjoyable part wasn't the exact replica of the piece, but the bugs we ran into along the way. Here are some glitches that I ended up liking more than the end result while recreating [Raven Kwok's work](https://twitter.com/RavenKwok/status/1269958692343971840), using my surname in Chinese.

```cv
gallery
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```

```cv
gallery
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```

```cv
tweet
https://twitter.com/tarngerine/status/1281274170458943488
```

```cv
gallery
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```

[View my source code and notes on Github](https://github.com/tarngerine/rtp2020)

School for Poetic Computation

In 2018, I took a sabbatical and had a chance to explore game-making as a creative practice. I found that I enjoyed making short experiences, centered on world-building, mood-making, and/or novel mechanics.

Mostly made in Pico-8, a fantasy console emulator with constraints on code and asset size, and a built-in art tool and music composer.

### [Home](https://tarngerine.itch.io/remember-home)

My dog Lychee had passed away suddenly right before sabbatical, and I was inspired by this grief. Home is about reliving your best experiences with your loved ones. 

```cv
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```

### [Repo Runner](https://tarngerine.itch.io/repo-runner)

I had just left Facebook to take this sabbatical, and the impact of my work weighed heavily on my mind. I've always been interested dystopian worlds, and how they reflect our anxieties and catastrophization. In the case of tech and the gig economy, I don't think our dystopias are too far off. 

```cv
gallery
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```

### Other prototypes

```cv
gallery
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```

[Play all my games on Itch.io](https://tarngerine.itch.io/)

Selected games on Itch

Software Imagineering

Comprehensive guide to Xiao Chi

Photographing diverse hands at Facebook

How to give constructive feedback over email

A month designing in VR

Designing search for Rooms

Designers: you can Objective-C, too!

Interface Lovers

Modai, A Smartphone with Replaceable Brains

Tidy Up Your Cluttered Twitter Feed With This KonMari Tool

Tokimeki Unfollow

Workspaces

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

Computing for Designers

A new design tool for people who like to write

Secret Design Tool

Timeline v2

Virtual shared spaces to meet, create, and play

Sprout (formerly MakeSpace)

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

Moonlight

Design Pack

Pixelcloud

The world's first multiplayer map-making tool

Felt

Logic

Customize your web with the Boosts in Arc :)

Arc Boosts

Origami Studio

Chat interface for Anthropic's Claude LLM

claude.ai

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

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

Project Modai

Origami-style patch visualizer for React data flow

Hook visualizer

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

blogring

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

web3-to-butt

get your own photo a la https://investors.block.xyz/governance/leadership/

blockify yourself

Konmari your Twitter follows\~ open source and remixable! 🪦 2023 due to Twitter API changes.

I can't believe it's not Figma™ – a new site template for your read.cv profile! Fully operational battleship with everything you remember from your local design tool

FigCV

SwiftUI-ish syntax, but in React. Builder pattern with full TS autocomplete and support for any arbitrary JSX props.

SwiftUI in React

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

I rant about the “design engineering” trend being a missed opportunity and break down what I view to be an arbitrary line drawn between the two disciplines.

Dissolving the line between design and engineering

Product Engineer

Product Designer

Industrial Designer

Research engineer resident

Principal Product Designer

Design Tools Lead

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

Clients include:
Anthropic (Claude)
The Browser Company (Arc)
Felt
Sprout (formerly MakeSpace)
Moonlight
Hidden Door
Tome

Julius Tarng

Teams

Projects

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