Bret Victor
planting seeds for trees I’ll never see
I’ve dedicated my life to creating a humane dynamic medium. Ten years ago, I started the research lab that became Dynamicland. The new Dynamicland website goes pretty deep.
Real-world dynamic medium.
2024
- The communal science lab: dream of a molecular makerspace
2023
- Improvising cellular playgrounds in Realtalk: dynamic presentation
2022
- Biomolecular design in Realtalk: doing science together
2019
- Bootstrapping Research: the lab is the experiment
2018
- Dynamicland presentation: first light
2017
- Dynamicland zine: dream of a communal computer
2016
- Hypercard in the World: escaping the tiny rectangle
Toward a dynamic medium.
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
- Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
- Scientific Communication as Sequential Art
- Tangle
- Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System
- Dynamic Pictures & Explorable Explanations & Kill Math
Earlier work.
2010
- Our Choice
- Apple (2007-2010)
2005
2004
2001
1999
- Juvenilia (1994-2007)
Bits & blurts.
2024
2022
- Tweets (2011-2022)
2019
2018
2017
2016
- Realtalk rambles (2015-2016)
2015
2014
2013
2011
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design & notes
- Some thoughts on teaching
- How many households
- Scrubbing calculator
- Visualizing weights of graph edges
2010
2007
Poems & diversions.
2022
- Headers (2013-2022)
2020
2018
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2010
2008
- Scribbles (2002-2008)
2007
2006
2001
2000
- Electronics (1997-2000)
Collections.
Promotional bio.
Bret Victor led the team that founded Dynamicland and invented Realtalk, the world‘s only self-hosted spatial computing system.
Previously at Apple, he designed the earliest user interface concepts for the iPad and several other new hardware platforms. His work established Apple’s internal future-interfaces prototyping group, whose inventions have shipped in billions of Apple products.
His later public-domain work on next-generation programming interfaces has been viewed millions of times, and directly inspired numerous products, companies, and academic papers.
His work has won the Apple Design Award twice. Computing pioneer Alan Kay has called him “one of the greatest user interface design minds in the world today”, and design legend Edward Tufte recognized him as a “design theory wizard, at the cutting edge of interface designs for programming, seeing, reasoning”.
He has electrical engineering degrees from Caltech and UC Berkeley.
Selected press.
- “softly spoken”
- “aw-shucks shyness”
- “starting to blossom”
- “radicalized”
- “achieved spiritual lockstep”
- “he seems tired”
- Miley
Old cv.
Real bio.
Non sibi sed bono publico.
Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
Previous website.
Contact: email (preferred), Mastodon (maybe), Twitter (nope)