Aosheng Ran
I'm a software designer who loves building communal creative computing interfaces. Currently making FigJam.
Aosheng Ran
I'm a software designer who loves building communal creative computing interfaces. Currently making FigJam.
Aosheng Ran
I'm a software designer who loves building communal creative computing interfaces. Currently making FigJam.
Sprout
Founding designer
2021–2022
At Sprout, we aspired to design a cozy, playful, and humane computing medium for people to be together. We built a collaborative information tabletop as the playground to prototype new interface metaphors for multi-player spatial environment.
Weiwei Xu
May-Li Khoe
Max Bittker
Julius Tarng
Grant Custer
Steven Kao
Alexander Wang
Anyā Likhitha
Aosheng Ran
We aimed to build an inherently collaborative medium, instead of slapping a feature layer on top of personal computing paradigms. This starts with syncing interaction states across all building blocks in the environment so that people can share one slate of attention with each other.
Cursor is an essential form of rich presence that indicates people’s location and focus. The space itself is permission-less by default to foster a sense of trust and intimacy, just like a studio where makers sit together without barriers between.
When we recenter the focal point of the interface from viewports to people’s cursors, we can contextualize cursor movement as a form of digital body language. It helps us build better shared understanding through unspoken context, i.e. how close people are to the exit.
Our social presence is more nuanced than being inside or outside. The space should retain such nuance as people transition between this gradient of presence. We can pull out our phone for a quick search during a conversation without getting kicked out.
Viewport indicators and cursors hanging at the edge of screen gently inform where people are in peripheral vision. These subtle way-finding cues and digital gestures like pinging are built for canvas environment to add rich context and playful expressions.
Sprout
Founding designer
2021–2022
At Sprout, we aspired to design a cozy, playful, and humane computing medium for people to be together. We built a collaborative information tabletop as the playground to prototype new interface metaphors for multi-player spatial environment.
Weiwei Xu
May-Li Khoe
Max Bittker
Julius Tarng
Grant Custer
Steven Kao
Alexander Wang
Anyā Likhitha
Aosheng Ran
We aimed to build an inherently collaborative medium, instead of slapping a feature layer on top of personal computing paradigms. This starts with syncing interaction states across all building blocks in the environment so that people can share one slate of attention with each other.
Cursor is an essential form of rich presence that indicates people’s location and focus. The space itself is permission-less by default to foster a sense of trust and intimacy, just like a studio where makers sit together without barriers between.
When we recenter the focal point of the interface from viewports to people’s cursors, we can contextualize cursor movement as a form of digital body language. It helps us build better shared understanding through unspoken context, i.e. how close people are to the exit.
Our social presence is more nuanced than being inside or outside. The space should retain such nuance as people transition between this gradient of presence. We can pull out our phone for a quick search during a conversation without getting kicked out.
Viewport indicators and cursors hanging at the edge of screen gently inform where people are in peripheral vision. These subtle way-finding cues and digital gestures like pinging are built for canvas environment to add rich context and playful expressions.
Sprout
Founding designer
2021–2022
At Sprout, we aspired to design a cozy, playful, and humane computing medium for people to be together. We built a collaborative information tabletop as the playground to prototype new interface metaphors for multi-player spatial environment.
Weiwei Xu
May-Li Khoe
Max Bittker
Julius Tarng
Grant Custer
Steven Kao
Alexander Wang
Anyā Likhitha
Aosheng Ran
We aimed to build an inherently collaborative medium, instead of slapping a feature layer on top of personal computing paradigms. This starts with syncing interaction states across all building blocks in the environment so that people can share one slate of attention with each other.
Cursor is an essential form of rich presence that indicates people’s location and focus. The space itself is permission-less by default to foster a sense of trust and intimacy, just like a studio where makers sit together without barriers between.
When we recenter the focal point of the interface from viewports to people’s cursors, we can contextualize cursor movement as a form of digital body language. It helps us build better shared understanding through unspoken context, i.e. how close people are to the exit.
Our social presence is more nuanced than being inside or outside. The space should retain such nuance as people transition between this gradient of presence. We can pull out our phone for a quick search during a conversation without getting kicked out.
Viewport indicators and cursors hanging at the edge of screen gently inform where people are in peripheral vision. These subtle way-finding cues and digital gestures like pinging are built for canvas environment to add rich context and playful expressions.
Roller by Sprout
Founding designer
2022
Roller is a browser extension that shows people their friends’ latest Internet rabbit holes on the new tab. We built Roller as an experiment of how we can feel each other’s ambient presence on the Internet, even when apart.
Weiwei Xu
Anyā Likhitha
Andrey Galko
Grant Custer
Julius Tarng
Aosheng Ran
Roller by Sprout
Founding designer
2022
Roller is a browser extension that shows people their friends’ latest Internet rabbit holes on the new tab. We built Roller as an experiment of how we can feel each other’s ambient presence on the Internet, even when apart.
Weiwei Xu
Anyā Likhitha
Andrey Galko
Grant Custer
Julius Tarng
Aosheng Ran
Roller by Sprout
Founding designer
2022
Roller is a browser extension that shows people their friends’ latest Internet rabbit holes on the new tab. We built Roller as an experiment of how we can feel each other’s ambient presence on the Internet, even when apart.
Weiwei Xu
Anyā Likhitha
Andrey Galko
Grant Custer
Julius Tarng
Aosheng Ran
Sprout Stickers
Founding designer
2022
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
Sprout Stickers
Founding designer
2022
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
Sprout Stickers
Founding designer
2022
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
Semilattice
Prototype
2020
A collection of system and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools.
Semilattice
Prototype
2020
A collection of system and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools.
Semilattice
Prototype
2020
A collection of system and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools.
Intuit
Product designer
2020–2021
Contributing to core customer experiences in the Intuit ecosystem, from reusable components for all Intuit products to account management: data request, connecting people and tools to account, and more.
Andrew Firstenberger
Gordon Tsuji
Jennie Yoon
Niharika Ved
Aosheng Ran
Intuit
Product designer
2020–2021
Contributing to core customer experiences in the Intuit ecosystem, from reusable components for all Intuit products to account management: data request, connecting people and tools to account, and more.
Andrew Firstenberger
Gordon Tsuji
Jennie Yoon
Niharika Ved
Aosheng Ran
Intuit
Product designer
2020–2021
Contributing to core customer experiences in the Intuit ecosystem, from reusable components for all Intuit products to account management: data request, connecting people and tools to account, and more.
Andrew Firstenberger
Gordon Tsuji
Jennie Yoon
Niharika Ved
Aosheng Ran