a pull switch that immediately ends your video calls
More infohardware design, 3d printing, bluetooth, video chat exhaustion, 1.3m views on Twitter
BBC Click (video), The Verge, Casey Neistat's a fan, Gizmodo, Hackster.io
a Twitch game show where if you beat the pros, you took their rig, piece by piece
More infocreative direction, twitch, insane live stream, Klarna, Mark Bielik, Alex Ledford, Daran Brossard, Will Millar, Myke Gerstein
a machine learning powered site that alerts you when you touch your face
More infoideation, machine learning, tensorflow.js, coronavirus, fear, Mike Bodge + Isaac Blankensmith
an anger-powered scooter made for Angry Birds—the louder you yell, the faster it goes
More infocreative direction, prototyping, hardware design, hardware scaling, scooters, rage, Angry Birds
Made a couple of Instagram filters for the Brooklyn Museum
VisitOur most popular Everyday Arcade game, with over 80m thoughts + prayers given
VisitTelling stories about how my face is all over the internet (9:00)
Visita smart dip bowl that uses machine learning to detect double dippers (it really works)
More infoHaley Buchner and Kelsey Fritz, Philadelphia Dips, Machine Learning, Skeleton tracking, Hardware sensing
Alexa, who are you for Halloween?
Visita service that likes a random friend’s really old picture on Instagram
Visita game series that lets you play the news (sometimes on NYT!)
More infogame design, design design, development, Mike Lacher, Chris Baker
millions of plays, 17m thoughts and prayers, won the popular vote
The New York Times, Polygon, Backchannel, Fast Co., NowThis, Paper, Spin, Paste, Mic., Fusion, The Next Web, Slate, Kotaku, Guardian, Boston Globe, Daily Dot, Mic., Kotaku, Business Insider, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, Elite Daily, Kill Screen, GOOD, Kotaku, Polygon, New Scientist, The Fader, Paste, A.V. Club, The Verge, BoingBoing
a mobile experience that challenged 1.8 million users to go without their phones to earn clean water
More infoconcept, art direction, prototyping, Johan Gerdin, Devin Croda, Modern Assembly, Justin Durazzo
2.5 million users, 250 million minutes gone without phones, One hour average user usage, $1.6 million raised, 38 million days of water raised, 600 mllion media impressions
Webby Awards 2015 WINNER, FWA Mobile of the Day, Ad Age Top Campaign of the 21st Century
Time, Washington Post, Fast Company, Gizmodo, Treehugger, GOOD, Wired UK, PSFK, Today (at 6:40)
an anti-social networking app (with 600,000 users!) that helped you avoid your “friends.”
More infoTonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Bloomberg TV (live), New York Times, Boing Boing, Engadget, The Washington Post, CNN, BBC, The Daily Beast, FOX Business, NPR, The Week, Fast Co. Design, Newsweek, NY Daily News, CBS News, Tech Times, Entrepreneur, Telegraph, Firmology, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, TechHive, StupidDope, Sydney Morning Herald, CNET, Huffington Post, New Zealand Herald, The Guardian, Memeburn, Silicon Republic, Treehugger, Bostinno, Lifehacker, Time, Death and Taxes, Wired UK, many others
a descriptive mirror that describes things in front of it in words
More infomachine learning, TensorFlow, Raspberry Pi, Hardware build
a “mobile” website for an agency… that you called into
Visitanother nerdy costume: Google Street View
Visita website that lets you fly through space, time, and music
More infoDesign, jQuery, A lot of other frontend dev, Chris Baker, Mike Lacher, Mika Chernov
Wired, Kottke, Kotaku.jp, Reddit, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Star Tribune, IB Times, Gizmodo, Av Club, Fastco. Create
a simple t-shirt design that became a brand identity
More infodesign, Jay Schaul
a social network that allows you to instantly open web pages in your friends’ browsers
More infodesign, front-end, a lot of jquery, Mike Lacher, Chris Baker