I'm an applied researcher, focused on creating user interfaces that expand what people can think and do. My current focus is an augmented book which actively helps people understand, remember, and use what they read.
Alexander Obenauer
Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.
userinterface.wiki
A living manual for better interfaces. Learn design principles, motion, typography, and more.
Thinking with Sand: A Talk Series Exploring New Software Tools for Creative Exploration and Augmented Thinking At the MIT Media Lab
Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools
Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery
Notes from my Beginner Computer Literacy Class Part 1 - Alex’s Writing Journal
Helping the uninitiated navigate this brave new digital world
Authorea: multi-disciplinary research preprints
Authorea is the leading collaborative platform to read, write, and publish research.
Amelia Wattenberger
I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years [...]
Obviously Awesome: Comprehensive Book Summary
April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career.
Rethinking the human-readability infrastructure
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Andrew Blinn
I use programming language theory as a lens on UI design, trying to make engagement with abstractions more fluid, tangible, and fun
Alex Komoroske
Thanks for visiting. This is just a (really) quick list of a handful of some things I've worked on and thought other people might enjoy. Got a question? An idea? Contact me: alex@komoroske.com
Greg Madisᯅn on Twitter / X
New follower? I’m Greg Madison. I’ve been pioneering tangible interfaces in XR for decades: making digital illusions part of the physical world, keeping us grounded in it.A thread on the ideas behind my work. 🧵Here’s an early exploration from 2009.https://t.co/6tNPYwHQsH pic.twitter.com/omqnFSSh4c— Greg Madisᯅn (@GregMadison) October 12, 2026
Just released a new @skyreader.app update with an experimental feature call Reading Rooms that attempts to recreate the experience of a book/journal club where you can gather to read together. skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub/3mvnm3f4src23
Skyreader update - Reading Rooms
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