Matthaeus Krenn

I design and prototype new interfaces

I design and prototype user interfaces for new products and experiences. Browse my work below, or feel free to get in touch via Mastodon, Instagram, or Email.


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  • Major Projects

  • 2018-2019

    VR-OS

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

  • 2016-2018

    1159 Maraschino Dr

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

  • 2013-2018

    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.

  • 2013

    New Car UI Prototype

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

  • 2011-2013

    Cue - iOS and Web Startup

    I was the design lead at Cue until it was acquired by Apple in 2013. Many of our features are integrated in iOS today. One of my favorites is when receiving a phone call by a "Maybe:" contact based on numbers that your phone has seen in the past.

  • Experiments

    Soft Cursor
  • 2021

    macOS Volume Shortcut

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

  • 2020

    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.

  • 2020

    Check Check Check

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

  • 2019

    Folding, dual screen phone

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

  • 2019

    Better rubber-banding on Android

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

  • 2018

    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.

  • 2017

    Fake Soft Body

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

  • 2016

    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.

  • 2015

    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.

  • 2014

    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.

  • 2013

    SpringTo.js (BROKEN)

    A simple JavaScript library for quick spring-physics based animations

  • 2013

    Simple Bookmarks in Chrome

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

  • 2012

    Brass Letters: I M O K

    Decorative letters cut and polished from solid brass.

  • 2012

    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.

  • 2011

    Scroll Bar Experiment

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

  • 2011

    Simple Address Complete (BROKEN)

    A more colloquial way of entering addresses into web forms. (This is pretty common these days)

  • 2011

    Interaction Between Text and Mouse

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

  • 2009

    Quick Full Size Image Search (BROKEN)

    For the times when you want to scroll through many hi-res images instead of looking through tiny thumbnails. (Broken)

  • 2008

    Prototype of a Modular Wood Shelf

    A shelf that grows as you need more storage space.