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I'm interested in the redefinition of the personal computer.
I'm working on that at Tlon.
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Work Experience
Designing a new networking protocol, operating system, app suite, software ecosystem, and corporate design approach from 0 to 1. Contributed directly to 10x-ing the size of the Urbit network from 2022 to 2023.
Experimental self care software, proto-LLM interfaces, and Backyard.
Cross-app product design for Discovery, Messaging, Safety, Groups, and Identity on Tumblr.
Internal design education, design consulting, and various B2B products.
Projects
An OS-like client interface for Urbit computers. Our current thesis and "vessel" for what constitutes a next-generation operating system.
Read more about the process of designing Landscape here: urcad.es/writing/230727
Futuristic "group chat app" featuring arbitrary channel types and customization that actually matters. Intended for assembling local internets.
Pilot was a mobile application designed to facilitate self-reflection, personal growth, and forming a story of your life through a simple prompt/question-oriented interface.
Pilot preceded the development of chat interfaces for LLMs, but was prescient in acknowledging how people would come to interact with these systems.
In a collaboration with Samara's writer's room, hardware engineers, an iOS dev, and Joe Gebbia, I designed new interfaces and input mechanisms between people and artificial intelligence, and strategies for how to incorporate data gleaned from people's lives into recommendation systems for Airbnb and Backyard.
I worked with Samara's engineers and real estate research team to prototype a system and interfaces for configuring modular Backyard units, situating them in real map-space, and calculating costs/price/revenue according to municipal + state real estate markets.
A surface with various layers that provide wireless charging may include at least one of a top surface layer, a second layer, comprising a plurality of lights and a power grid, disposed under the top surface layer, a charging pad disposed on a portion of the power grid, and a third layer, comprising a power supply which provides power to the plurality of lights and the power grid, disposed under the second layer.
Side Projects
with Callil Capuozzo and Sarah Hamerman
Writing
A reflection–meditation on OS 1’s initial form development, and the attitude we brought to bear in designing it.
"Conceptual wandering as a way to find and make meaning"
Speaking
Artists, Designers, Writers, and Makers are invited to share their ideas on what it means to push culture forward today with values of community, curiosity, care, and partnership at the forefront.
Those invited are imagining new ways of shaping brand and design, pushing the boundaries within their profession, and leading practices that resist rigid definition and reflect the sentiment of our time.
I spoke about designing interfaces for a new conception of an internet, and the human body in digital space.