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Bret Victor is an interface designer, computer scientist, and electrical engineer known for his talks on the future of technology. As of 2021, he worked as a researcher at Dynamicland.
Bret Victor. “One of the greatest user interface design minds in the world today.” — Alan Kay. “Design theory wizard, at the cutting edge of interface designs for programming, seeing, reasoning.” — Edward Tufte. Goal. I intend to invent a humane medium in which the thinkers of the next century will see, understand, and create systems. Selected Work
Bret Victor led the team that invented Realtalk and founded Dynamicland. Previously at Apple, he designed the earliest user interface concepts for the iPad and several other new hardware platforms. His work established Apple’s internal future-interfaces prototyping group, whose inventions have shipped in billions of Apple products.
Bret Victor has been working towards Dynamicland his entire life. He started in electrical engineering, enthralled by bringing magic into the real world, and created a line of bestselling and award-winning electronic musical instruments. He then turned to UI design, to invent tools for understanding.
2014: CDG research lab was co-founded by Alan Kay and Bret Victor to reinvent computing for the 21st century. The Dynamicland vision and technology emerged from years of exploration, hundreds of working prototypes, and multiple whole-system iterations.
Presented at Dropbox's DBX conference on July 9, 2013. All of the slides are available at: http://worrydream.com/dbx/ For his recent DBX Conference talk, Victor took attendees back to the year...
by Bret Victor. Abstract. # The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided.
