Bret Victor
Interface designer and researcher; founder of Dynamicland, known for Inventing on Principle.
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- Bret Victor is an American interface designer and researcher known for his talks on the future of technology.
- He was a human interface inventor at Apple from 2007 to 2011 and worked on the initial design of the iPad.
- He founded Dynamicland, a research lab in Oakland, California, where he works on dynamic media.
- His talks include Inventing on Principle (2012) and The Future of Programming (2013), and he popularised the term "explorable explanation".
Key facts
- Education
- BS in electrical engineering, Caltech (1999); MS in electrical engineering, UC Berkeley (2001)1
- Alesis
- Developed the Alesis Ion synthesizer and its successor, the Micron1
- Apple
- Human interface inventor from 2007 to 2011; worked on the initial iPad design and contributed to other products1
- Research
- Joined the Communications Design Group in 2014; founded Dynamicland in Oakland1
- Talks
- Inventing on Principle (2012); The Future of Programming (2013)1
Roles
Before
Part of until 2011
Apple (human interface inventor; worked on the initial iPad design) source on Apple
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