I enjoy learning new design skills through side projects and experiments.
Roundaround
Multi-player drum machine
Roundaround lets multiple users jam together and create looped rhythms online in a visual way where all steps are placed in concentric circles.
Skills: three.js, react, html, css
Team: Ali Momeni (lead). Various engineering collaborators over the years
Open Source: View on Github
Duration: 2022-2023
Creating rhyhtms and multiplayer jamming on Roundaround
Dranimate with LiveDraw
Turn any 2D image into a hand-puppet
Dranimate Web lets you animate any 2d image with your hands using a webcam, and also add infinite number of regular webcam recordings that can be inverted to showcase sketches so that you can use it as a canvas of expression, and project it in real-world.
Skills: three.js, react, html, css
Team: Ali Momeni (lead). Various engineering collaborators over the years
Open Source: View on Github
Duration: 2019-2022
Dranimate Web 2022 with LiveDraw
Dranimate on Web made it more accessible – which previously required special hardware (Leapmotion) and software (OpenFrameworks)
Having Dranimate on Web made it more accessible – which previously required special hardware (Leapmotion) and software (OpenFrameworks)
While I haven't actively worked on the original Dranimate, I've assisted Ali and the team demoing it on various events.
Original Dranimate by Ali Momeni and the team
Google SPAN 2017 Pittsburgh
Poli
A platformer game made of tangrams
In Poli – the first ever game that I've designed and developed using Unity, players navigate geometric environments inspired by the tangram to find Poli’s mother while avoiding enemies.
Skills: Unity, C#, game design & development
Source Code: View on Github
Brief: Develop a 2D platformer that has 3 levels and 3 enemies.
Duration: 2 Weeks (Fall 2017)
Only supported on desktop
Speed-up gameplay shots from Poli
Future Voices
Collectively Imagining the Future
As four designers, we explored technology’s role in community-driven design futuring for shared spaces. Initially a playful urban projection in a Pittsburgh vacant lot, the project evolved due to children's enthusiastic reactions, leading us to adapt the technology for classroom use.
Skills: Projection Mapping, Millumin, OpenCV, Workshops
Brief: Create an impact in Pittsburgh through technology.
Duration: 4 months (Dec 2016 - Mar 2017)
Our first experiment: An Interactive Urban Projection
FV Events: An interactive urban projection, a futuring-driven projection mapping, a virtual reality futuring exercise
What is Web Mashup?
An explainer video for the concept
To illustrate "What is a web mashup?", I created a visual of a developer making a website to help apartment hunting. This project, my first in After Effects, highlighted that simpler visuals are more effective in explaining complex concepts.
Skills: After Effects, communication design
Brief: Design motion to effectively make a complex abstract concept concrete by utilizing multiple senses.
Duration: 1 month (Fall 2016)