Matthaeus Krenn

VR-OS

A desktop operating system that replaces the monitor with a head-mounted display.

1159 Maraschino Dr

Co-designed exterior, interior, landscaping, and managed the extensive remodel of a single family residence in Sunnyvale.

Apple

Worked on the "Prototyping" team, which is tasked with designing and prototyping user experiences around new technologies.
The team helped showcasing the potential of many projects in their infancy such as LiDAR, Pencil, Force Touchpad, Animoji, FaceID, Dual Cameras, Portrait Mode, etc.

New Car UI Prototype

A touch based interface for cars that requires less accuracy and is less disctracting to use.

macOS Volume Shortcut

An interaction prototype of a macOS shortcut to adjusting the volume in the menu bar.

Area Calculator

A Figma plugin that helps with calculating the surface area of elements in your documents. This can be useful for e.g. simple architecture projects.

Check Check Check

An ultra lightweight Chrome extensions that puts a synced todo list in your new tabs.

Folding, dual screen phone

A quick look at some interesting opportunities presented in dual screen or folding phones.

Better rubber-banding on Android

A simple interactive prototype of how a more satisfying rubber-banding solution could improve scrolling lists on Android.

Apple patent: UI for phone based AR/VR

Several methods of manipulating content in augmented or virtual reality, viewed on the screen of a phone.

Fake Soft Body

An experiment to simulate a reasonably realistic soft body behavior using just divs and CSS transforms.

Apple patent: 360 degree photos/videos

Solutions for recording and playing back of 360 degree photos/videos and videos with a focus on purposeful use of stabilization.

iOS patent: Automatically show playback controls

When you plug in your headphones into your iPhone and the playback controls of whatever you were playing last come up. That's what this does.

iOS patent: Quick Camera Access in Messages

I worked on an early prototype for a quick photo sharing UI back in the days of iOS 8. What ended up shipping back then wasn't exactly a slam dunk, but it improved over the years.

Simple Bookmarks in Chrome

A Chrome browser extension for totally straight-forward maintenance of a rolling list of bookmarks in new tabs.

Brass Letters: I M O K

Decorative letters cut and polished from solid brass.

Shortest Synonym Finder

In UI design, I often need the shortest possible synonym for a word that fits. This is a tool that gives you words, sorted by how much space they need on screen.

Scroll Bar Experiment

An experimental UI that uses indicators next to the scroll bar to divide a website into sections.

Interaction Between Text and Mouse

A small experiment that looks at the connection between the mouse cursor and text you read on a screen.

Prototype of a Modular Wood Shelf

A shelf that grows as you need more storage space.