Julien Dorra
@juliendorra.com
Design, build and consult for tech products. Designed Peco Peco. Built Fugue AI and Esquisse AI. Museomix co-founder
MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!)
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
October 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!)
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
in Accelerando (2005) by @cstross.bsky.social at the start the main character is using smart glasses and have the same disconnect with people. He's an early adopter, tech obsessed. It costs him something. Very relevant book.
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
in Accelerando (2005) by @cstross.bsky.social at the start the main character is using smart glasses and have the same disconnect with people. He's an early adopter, tech obsessed. It costs him something. Very relevant book.
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
Captures from @mkbhd.com's review of Meta's Ray-ban display
You should care about Kare
(because she's the first digital design professional)
(because she's the first digital design professional)
October 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
You should care about Kare
(because she's the first digital design professional)
(because she's the first digital design professional)
Here are three people that are present everyday in your life: Jef Raskin, Bill Atkinson and Bas Ording. They make you move in very specific ways. Do you know why?
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Here are three people that are present everyday in your life: Jef Raskin, Bill Atkinson and Bas Ording. They make you move in very specific ways. Do you know why?
Artificial Intelligence programming book from… 1986
September 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Artificial Intelligence programming book from… 1986
What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI
September 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI
Black Lava, made with Live Code Lab
September 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Black Lava, made with Live Code Lab
AI and video games: using light fast AI models to get impactful results
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
September 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AI and video games: using light fast AI models to get impactful results
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)
- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation
- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s
Créez le problème pour mieux annoncer la solution 🙃
September 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Créez le problème pour mieux annoncer la solution 🙃
I built a new generative AI prototype! The goal? Find out how gen AI can expand playful user experiences that have been traditionally limited by fixed rules and pre-created content. What if crafting-based games were much more open ended?
September 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I built a new generative AI prototype! The goal? Find out how gen AI can expand playful user experiences that have been traditionally limited by fixed rules and pre-created content. What if crafting-based games were much more open ended?
Brussel has a special mix of architecture, and the Sony Mavica FD7 (1997 floppy camera) is particularly adapted to shooting the 70s - 90s buildings there. I especially love the quite tacky neo-neo-classic ones.
August 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Brussel has a special mix of architecture, and the Sony Mavica FD7 (1997 floppy camera) is particularly adapted to shooting the 70s - 90s buildings there. I especially love the quite tacky neo-neo-classic ones.
AI chatbots: so cheerful and happy to grant your wish in a totally wrong way
August 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
AI chatbots: so cheerful and happy to grant your wish in a totally wrong way
The world before containerization
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
August 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The world before containerization
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
(Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)
I’m sorry but I don’t know a single PhD who you can’t give a whole book or two to read… (yes, it’s about GPT5 still too small input length)
August 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m sorry but I don’t know a single PhD who you can’t give a whole book or two to read… (yes, it’s about GPT5 still too small input length)
Who's afraid of blown out highlights and color fringing? Not me! The Atomium in Brussel, shot with a Sony Mavica FD5, a 1996 camera that uses diskettes (!) and take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor.
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Who's afraid of blown out highlights and color fringing? Not me! The Atomium in Brussel, shot with a Sony Mavica FD5, a 1996 camera that uses diskettes (!) and take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor.
The Paris Olympics flame, up again for 3 summers. Shot with a Mavica FD5, a camera that uses diskettes to take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor!
August 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Paris Olympics flame, up again for 3 summers. Shot with a Mavica FD5, a camera that uses diskettes to take 640x480 pixels photos using a video sensor!
In 2013, Mozilla partnered with ZTE to create a phone with a FLOSS OS based on web tech: Firefox OS!
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
July 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
In 2013, Mozilla partnered with ZTE to create a phone with a FLOSS OS based on web tech: Firefox OS!
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones
A new tool that lets its users work 80 times faster? It was released, and it was 46 years ago: VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, which allowed users to do in 15 minutes what used to take them 20 hours! Did their professions disappear? No.
July 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A new tool that lets its users work 80 times faster? It was released, and it was 46 years ago: VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet, which allowed users to do in 15 minutes what used to take them 20 hours! Did their professions disappear? No.
Early Aqua (10.1 2001) compared to later Aqua (10.7 2010)
June 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Early Aqua (10.1 2001) compared to later Aqua (10.7 2010)
Bill Atkinson was one of the most influential interface (dev+UX+UI) designer of all times: if you're using a computer, you're using his inventions everyday, pull-down menus that you can ruffle through (invented over one night… after months of iterations), palette-menu in design tools like Photoshop…
June 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Bill Atkinson was one of the most influential interface (dev+UX+UI) designer of all times: if you're using a computer, you're using his inventions everyday, pull-down menus that you can ruffle through (invented over one night… after months of iterations), palette-menu in design tools like Photoshop…
It’s the weekend so here’s generative art at the bouldering gym
June 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It’s the weekend so here’s generative art at the bouldering gym
Is Google the Apple of generative AI?
June 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Is Google the Apple of generative AI?
Generative art with Louis XIV
June 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Generative art with Louis XIV