Matthaeus Krenn

Opal Camera Inc.

Early design and prototyping work for yet unreleased hardware.

This is my Last

Designed and developed intricate interactions for this small personal collection of beautiful products.

Wispr Flow

Joined the company in its infancy to advise on product and interface design.

VR-OS

A functional vision of what it would mean for desktop operating systems if we replaced monitors with head-worn displays.

1159 Maraschino Dr

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

Apple

Worked on showcasing the potential of many new technologies 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.

iOS playback progress Bar

An interface tweak that enables playback progress bars to subtly remember how much of a podcast has been listened to.

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.

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.