I'm a designer and programmer, working on the future of personal computing and AI interfaces. I want to give humans more agency over their computers.
Now
I lead design at Telepath, a small software company with big ambitions to make the personal computer far more personal.
Prior to Telepath, I was on the design team at Adept, which brought me from my hometown of Sydney to San Francisco where I now live. I've also worked at Mozilla (where I created the LangView library to as an early public demonstration of generative interfaces), and Google Creative Lab, where I worked with research teams to build novel user interfaces for creative work with early large neural networks.
Latest blog posts
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Thought partnership with language models
This is a new sort of interaction with computers, one that's far more personal and flexible than anything in the history of human-computer interaction. It's something I've been calling thought partnership.
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How web publishing is broken
The original promise of the web was a fully-distributed amalgamation of individuals with web servers.
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Bury the hierarchy: On folders, broken links, and Bill Gates' biggest mistake
Somewhere deep in MIT, around 1965, a group of researchers were putting the finishing touches on their new computer operating system, Multics.
Publications & talks
- October 2024. Introducing Web Applets @ Causal Islands Berlin. Talking about Unternet's Web Applets, a new protocol for AI-native applications on the web.
- November 2023. The Mediated Web @ Web Directions, Sydney. On how language models will mediate our interactions with the web.
- April 2023. Building humane interfaces with language models @ Causal Islands Toronto. Talking about the future paradigm of interaction design.
- May 2022. Perception of control in generative AI music user interfaces @ ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
- April 2022. WIPO conversation on intellectual property and frontier technologies @ WIPO. Discussing opportunities and threats around AI in the music industry.
- December 2021. AI & IP: Who owns music made by a machine? @ Goethe Institut.
- November 2021. Live interview with Holly Herndon @ Melbourne Music Week.