hiii! i design creative tools for embodied expression, world-building, and meaning-making. i daydream about systems, metaphors, simulations, and ways to visualize them. rn i'm building a new product at Figma.


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— aosheng ^.^

April fun throwback cursors

2024

Cause why not??

Kelly Li

Lawrence Luk

Chris Brainerd

Susan Su

Julia Chang

Aosheng Ran

+ many more <3

April fun throwback cursors

2024

Cause why not??

Kelly Li

Lawrence Luk

Chris Brainerd

Susan Su

Julia Chang

Aosheng Ran

+ many more <3

Selection tools, FigJam for iPad

2024

Chris Wendel

Adam Barrus

Cynthia Jia

Jessie Mao

Levi Villarreal

Aosheng Ran

Precision select

Hold to select

Natasha Tenggoro

Sam Dixon

Jerry Wu

Daniel Mejia

Conor Woods

Andrew Schmidt

Julia Chang

Aosheng Ran

2022

Prototyping a cozy, playful, and communal computing medium.

Weiwei Xu

May-Li Khoe

Max Bittker

Julius Tarng

Grant Custer

Steven Kao

Alexander Wang

Anyā Likhitha

Aosheng Ran

We aimed to build a collabotative medium that evolves beyond personal computing paradigms—like syncing interaction states across all building blocks, so that people can share one slate of attention with each other.

The space is permissive-by-default to foster a sense of trust and intimacy, just like a studio where makers sit together with no barriers between; cursors can be a rich presence that indicates people’s location and focus.

By centering the focal point from viewports to people’s cursors, we can contextualize cursor movement as a digital body language. It helps us build shared understanding through unspoken context, i.e. how close people are to the exit. 

Our social presence is more nuanced than online/offline. Our spaces should retain such nuance as we transition between the gradient of presence: we can reach into our backpack to look for things during a conversation without leaving the space.

Viewport indicators and cursors gently inform where people are in peripheral vision. The subtle way-finding cues and digital gestures like pinging add rich context and playful expressions to the space.

2024

Make lenticular cards of AI multiverses.

Weiwei Xu

Yaoyao

EyreFree

Ralph Li

Pojo Huang

Anthony Xu

Aosheng Ran

iMessage selfie stickers. An irresistibly fun, wholesome, and annoying way to react.  🤳🏼 💥 💬

Weiwei Xu

Bill Chien

EyreFree

Ralph Li

Pojo Huang

Anthony Xu

Luella

Aosheng Ran

Roller

2022

A browser extension that shows friends’ Internet rabbit holes on the new tab. A little tool that helps us feel each other’s ambient presence on the Internet, even when apart. 

Weiwei Xu

Anyā Likhitha

Andrey Galko

Grant Custer

Julius Tarng

Aosheng Ran

A collection of system and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools.

Modeless, multi-modal input

Spatial backlinks

Web as local archive

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Selection tools, FigJam for iPad

2024

Chris Wendel

Adam Barrus

Cynthia Jia

Jessie Mao

Levi Villarreal

Aosheng Ran

2024

Make lenticular cards of AI multiverses.

Weiwei Xu

Yaoyao

EyreFree

Ralph Li

Pojo Huang

Anthony Xu

Aosheng Ran

2022

Prototyping a cozy, playful, and communal computing medium.

Weiwei Xu

May-Li Khoe

Max Bittker

Julius Tarng

Grant Custer

Steven Kao

Alexander Wang

Anyā Likhitha

Aosheng Ran

iMessage selfie stickers. An irresistibly fun, wholesome, and annoying way to react.  🤳🏼 💥 💬

Weiwei Xu

Bill Chien

EyreFree

Ralph Li

Pojo Huang

Anthony Xu

Luella

Aosheng Ran

Roller

2022

A browser extension that shows friends’ Internet rabbit holes on the new tab. A little tool that helps us feel each other’s ambient presence on the Internet, even when apart. 

Weiwei Xu

Anyā Likhitha

Andrey Galko

Grant Custer

Julius Tarng

Aosheng Ran

Semilattice

2020

A collection of system and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools.

2024

Make lenticular cards of AI multiverses.

Weiwei Xu

Yaoyao

EyreFree

Ralph Li

Pojo Huang

Anthony Xu

Aosheng Ran