Cameron Burgess
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design @softwareappsinc prev. @apple design team, @cmudesign
San Francisco
Joined March 2010
@maayan_albert and I are extremely excited to share Stamper, a project we worked on together to create. “a @p5xjs editor in shape of @sketch”. Try 🤚 it: Watch the full 🎞 video:
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i left in april. working on the apple design team is something i'll cherish forever; the thoughtful and kind friends i made inspired me profoundly — living legends. apple is an extremely special place.4.4yrs felt like a blink
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I made a WWDC talk on how to design shortcuts for 🔍 Spotlight on iOS. Check it out:
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@ayanonagon 🎭WWDC BTS pt. 2 🎭.Production team: Don’t wear chaotic shirts.Me: *arrives in Hawaiian shit*.Production team: 😑… wear the green jacket instead!.[. ] Right before filming, nvm we see a smol stain😳.Me: Hawaiian?.Production team: Pls hold for Hawaiian approval.[. ] Approved!🎉
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I worked on App Intents & Shortcuts for yrs and tried to explain these concepts countless times (incld. at WWDC twice). Ray’s talk is the easiest to understand by far — worth a watch if you’re interested in designing great building blocks for Apple Intelligence.
I made a WWDC talk on how to design App Intents, which power system experiences including Siri, Search, Shortcuts, Action button, Controls, Widgets, and more. Check it out:
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started full-time @ 2.002739726 years ago!.feel like i’m gettin’ warmed up
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i recently joined @SoftwareAppsInc as the founding designer. language models are unlocking new kinds of interfaces — the perfect time to be a beginner again…
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4yrs at today. @raypai_ took the photo of me at steve jobs theatre being super happy
started full-time @ 2.002739726 years ago!.feel like i’m gettin’ warmed up
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Check out today's talk from @b0ngled and @NataliaHarateh on all the new features coming to Shortcuts and SiriKit:
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We also wrote a paper about Stamper which was accepted to #chi2020 in Hawaii 🏝 and we’ve posted the preprint here ( where you can also find out more about Stamper and download the Mac app.
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This is the first time I’ve ever seen figma do something that was actually exciting.
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Why does my computer not help me organize strains of thought and work such that they are co-located in a comprehensible, enduring environment?. (ex certain tabs relate to certain Notes, certain code sketches are directly related to certain tabs of technical documentation, etc)
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Tune in Wednesday for “Design great actions for Shortcuts, Siri, and Suggestions” from @AriX and yours truly.
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🏆🚨 #WWDC21Challenges 🚨🏆.Show us your favourite multi-step shortcuts by tweeting with this hashtag!.I’ll start with my favourite shortcut: Set Up Alarms! (implementation to be posted tomorrow 😉).
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😷 KN95 × 🎧 AirPods Max tip: wrap the straps around the cups instead of your ears. Tighter fit + significantly reduced pressure on ears for comfortable masked listening 👌
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goes way back to mercuryOS…
Cameron (@supercgeek) and I share a sacred tradition of inserting cameos of each other in the demos we make
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@spiralganglion Last summer I worked on a collection of Data Authorung Environments — Section 4 on Visual Interfaces may be of interest
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I’m so proud of my friends @jasonyuandesign and @glitchyowl for sharing their “prologue to a new kind of computer” with the world. I met and became big fans of them both in 2018 and it’s so coool to see them playing with the big kids now @mayli @aza 😃.
beyond thrilled to share what my teammates and I have been up to. the prologue to a new kind of computer.
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As we designed Shortcuts for macOS, we also redesigned parts of our iPadOS & iOS apps to create a cohesive experience. Working with @xanthiceye & @chpwn taught me so much and the SwiftUI team (👋 Taylor Kelly) was always eager to help Ayaka’s team reuse code and save time #WWDC21.
Yes, as you might have heard in some sessions, Shortcuts for Mac is built mostly with SwiftUI! It’s been so fun working closely with the SwiftUI team to make this happen. 🤩 #WWDC21
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Tomorrow at 4:30pm, @maxkriegers and I co-open Artifacts of the Artificial with Eli King and Pancho Cabera at @CarnegieMellon’s Frame Gallery (Margaret Morrison St & Forbes Ave)
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The left-most system in the below photo was accepted to #CHI2020 LBW: “Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment” by @maayan_albert and I; with advising from @imaginari_es; @dcardo gave the kick.
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I always wanted to do a senior thesis, but my program didn’t have an option for one, so working on this project with Maayan felt like an awesome way to finish 4½ of study at CMU.
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You know you’re in San Francisco when someone is designing an iPhone app in Sketch at baggage claim. .
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I have never felt so much like I am in the game mirror’s edge
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Anti-Drawing Machine | by @soonhokwn, Harsh Kedia, Akshat Prakash, students of @CMUDesign, @CMUSoA, and @SCSatCMU respectively | For @CMUIDeATe.
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@BigZaphod @ayanonagon Most of the set was already configured. But, we were allowed to bring our own (pre-approved) items. I brought three brochures and a green hat:
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Maayan and I both want thank @golan, the STUDIO for @CreativeInquiry (where we frequently met to work on Stamper), @bradamyers for reference advice, and @cmudesign’s @peterscupelli and @austinslee01 (former faculty) — whose fateful course (E-Mini 1) inspired deeply.
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When I discuss programming environments with people, I argue they should allow ‘Acting Directly on Behaviour’, and people will sometimes get confused and say “how is that different from just writing different code?” Now you’ve given me the perfect example — so excited for Hest!.
The little "comets" are. data? And the black paths are, what, function calls?. So you can grab data en route to a function? And move it with the arrow keys? And then drop it back on a path?. Sure, but like I already have a step debugger, why?
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I love that Jason told his own story to launch Dot. Unfortunately I don’t have any zombie village photos of Jason 🤣
here’s a glimpse into just how much dot has changed me and the course of my life in just one year.
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Personally, I am especially thankful to Hugh @Dubberly for sewing the phrase ‘Authoring Environment’ into my mind in 2017, to @paulpangaro for conversations that forced progress, and to @maxkriegers for sending me a 🐦DM, then making Artifacts of the Artificial with me.
Tomorrow at 4:30pm, @maxkriegers and I co-open Artifacts of the Artificial with Eli King and Pancho Cabera at @CarnegieMellon’s Frame Gallery (Margaret Morrison St & Forbes Ave)
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App Shortcuts Design Resources are live:
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Jason is spot on again. Computers are not Magazines. Computers are not Movies. Computers ARE general-purpose machines, their power is that they can be many things — that power belongs to every computer user, not just developers.
our current design tools reinforce the fallacy of “motion design” as tape bridging static screens. Interstitial moments should be moments of power—moments users get to change their minds.
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tune in to celebrate my birthday 😜.
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[unordered].a kiosk.a tax or govt. form.a spaceship or extraterrestrial habitat.a hotel.a design tool.a design studio.a grade-separated public transit system.a school (elementary/primary).a programming environment (in-progress⏳).an operating system.a home.
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Things like this give me hope that big companies can still do imaginative things beyond mining people for everything bit of their soul one feed after another. #FightTheFeed
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About to fly around the world. Skipping CMU for a semester to study in South Korea at the Dept. of Industrial Design at KAIST.
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Seems like the iPhone X home-button is erroneously showing up in 11.1 on my iPhone 7+
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playing wipeout was such an ‘oh shit’ moment for me growing up. it was probably the first time I realized graphic design was a thing. i still viscerally remember sitting on the floor in chapters paging through logo design books looking for more stuff like @disinfoTDR.
The Designers Republic's beautiful, unique take on the racing teams of 'WipEout'.
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Tired: drawing states.Wired: drawing state machines.Fired: stating drawing machines.
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@ayanonagon 🎭 WWDC BTS pt. 3 🎭. In the final days before filming, my amazing friend @lumar_isa lent a hand in crafting animations & carving the corners of 🐱🐶 building blocks 🧱🏰 .As the crunch was too real, we forgot to document, so here’s a Memojied image from CMU to convey the vibe
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Recently @CarnegieMellon wrote an article about the work and I have been doing in Environments Studio IV at @CMUDesign (Prof. @DanLockton).—.Students Study How Design Impacts Artificial Intelligence.📰 🖼️
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@graycrawford @lucas0choa @lumar_isa @GautamBose18 @YujinAriza @LeapMotion @creativeinquiry @cmuetc @noazark Special Thanks To @golan & @cmuetc
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I relate to this on a deep level.
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I agree!  Doug, we should’ve kept this take in the talk!. I’m guessing “the ship has sailed” on big changes though…maybe we can bend the rules a bit 😝. While we’re at it, we should blend some of this @settern hype magic in too!
There is a lot to love in this recap! 😊 *My* personal favorite is the outtake featuring the genuine enthusiasm of @AriX.
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“Evaluate and optimize voice interaction for your app” is live! Jess covers how adopting Shortcuts can power experiences with.🗣 Voice.👆Touch.⏲ Automations.✨ Suggestions.across iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. The difference between System Intents and Custom Intents is also explained.
Designing for Siri and Shortcuts just released a must watch session for any who want to bring the new Compact Siri experience to their App this year. #WWDC20
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my clown-hat friends @GautamBose18 and @lucas0choa introduce: cereal “tippy thing” feat. machine learning
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Beyond Being There is one of my favourite papers. It’s currently available for free:
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🔁➕.what should be type-able into a 🔍 box that isn’t?.what do we type into 🔎 boxes that we shouldn’t have to?.
curious to talk to designers in my network/community who are really really into thinking about the future of search/CLI/helping computers become more intelligent and humane. hmu.
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I’ve been surprised two years in a row how much returning home from college for the holidays throws off my whole center of gravity (productivity, how I feel, thinking, etc.) – curious if anyone else experiences this.
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just boarded ✈️ from SFO to JFK — excited to be exhibiting my work on visual authoring environments from @danlockton’s Environments design studio @cmudesign
In one week from today, we’ll be hosting Future Perfect, a speculative fiction conference curated by @lifewinning. Check out the program and join us for the livestream here:
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For how often Notion logs me out of their iOS and OS X apps, I basically think they don't want me to use it — seems like I have to login almost every time I open it.
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Reminder to my future self: don’t sit outside in the sun because you will burn. Remember your mantra: look around and click around.
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@jasonyuandesign @maayan_albert 😳 no you are the coolest, but really @maayan_albert is *the* coolest.
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After coming back from Korea, I still find myself bowing to service-people as I thank them and receive goods. Sometimes I even catch myself about to say 감사합니다 (thank you).
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This is a great visual explanation by @elzr of something fundamental, but also easily missed about “Stamper is only an editor, projects created within it can be used with any other p5.js editor and vice versa. When the desktop Stamper App is used, [. ]”.
@guckes Yes! You know me, I'm a Vim guy & still think of plain text as the true best "wood" for programming. I have your same skepticism of pure visual coding. ;). But Stamper is meant as just a powerful way to view & edit your text source. It always mantains 1-to-1 mapping between them.
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It’s only my 2nd day living on an M1 Mac and I feel like I’m flying … totally floored & finding myself in frequent disbelief at never waiting for anything! Working at the speed of thought 🤩.
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Left three @jennyholzer truisms in @paulpangaro’s office last week; his annotations in black.
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I've worked with the Shortcuts team for about 5 months and they're an absolutely awesome group “redefining mobile computing”! ⏰🎚🧮.
The Shortcuts team is hiring a Software Engineer. We're working on the future of automation for Apple's platforms. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have questions.
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imagine how different computers would be if the guiding design principle was to ‘represent what is happening’. Rams said “Good design is honest” but I’m always hearing ‘the design challenge is to make technology invisible/smooth/beautiful’. 🤔.
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@graycrawford @lucas0choa @lumar_isa @GautamBose18 @YujinAriza @LeapMotion @creativeinquiry @cmuetc @noazark @lumar_isa & @lucas0choa sharing a moment in the nascent days of the institute
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Moreover, these strains of activity often unfold over many months, across multiple devices and environments (ie Safari, Twitter, Notes, Email, various coding/design envs, etc) yet every one of these environments has its own (disconnected!) hierarchy of organization.
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Just came across this not-at-all exaggerated documentary about my favourite community in college by @cdslls feat. @mus_akos @gothrancher @aman_gif @graycrawford @CharStiles @xkrnie and more…makes me miss everyone 🥰.
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building is innately exciting!.
“Obsessed with these vibes” I say as I endlessly rewatch this video of schoolchildren cheering on a construction worker every time he shovels more dirt
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Does anyone know when the idea of (multiple) Artboards on a scrollable & zoomable canvas first occurred?. Wikipedia indicates Illustrator received the feature in '08 ( but I can't believe this was the first time.
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Does anyone ever set their lunch status on slack then proceed to work through the entire lunch period, then set their status again (and 🔁)… I wonder if people think I’m eating lunch for 3 hours a day….
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PSA: wearing a ⛑ saved my life last night in a 🚴♂️accident. A helmet just might do the same for you when you least expect it. .
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Mercury is super exciting — Jason is reading the right things & asking all the right questions. Thrilled to see where this goes next! #HumaneComputer.
Introducing Mercury OS: A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles.
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Last Friday, I had the awesome opportunity to see & hear Hugh @DubberlyDesign speak at @CMUHCII. If you missed it, it’s available online: <Video gt; <Slides gt;
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transgenic fluoresce seems to be console.log() for biohackers.
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my new favourite habit is turning off an entire app’s notifications when I get a notification from that app.
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Not everyday you see a Spaceship in front of your university center: SpaceX Dragon 2 at Mellon zone for #WHFrontiers
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if the aspirational computer is a bicycle for the mind, why is everyone working on alcohol and drugs for the mind.
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oops, fudged the handle, “especially thankful to Hugh @DubberlyDesign” for sewing the phrase ‘Authoring Environment’ into my mind in 2017 — my notes also say we discussed TQM, Akio Morita, The History of Fire, how cruise control ‘is’ a thermostat, Parrish Hanna, Hackney Lab, &
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I am seriously excited about this, it’s hard to underestimate how happy I am that Nintendo is putting the ability to do computational creation in the hands of end-users!
Invent new ways to play with Toy-Con Garage! Get a detailed look into this mode, and learn the basics on how to start making your own Toy-Con projects with #NintendoLabo!
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