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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 28/04/2026

(I have been showing it to design students regularly in the past years, most recently at the beginning narrative interaction workshops!)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 28/04/2026

@mikebithell.bsky.social Hi! Was trying to download Thomas was alone to show it to my design students on my iPhone but… it’s not available to download anymore! Is that a region issue (France) or is totally removed from the App Store? (I digged out an old iPhone that luckily had it!)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 27/03/2026

"human-in-the-loop", they said

Ai chat bubble from the user with commit push verify writtent

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 23/02/2026

Training on AI output should clearly be legal, just as training on published books or public social networks content is. Fair use and socially beneficial goes both ways

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 23/02/2026

Thanks for reporting it, but I felt their view it was an "attack" was stated as a fact, when it can also be seen as very similar as their own crawling and scraping methods, just on different content

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 23/02/2026

AI companies scraped the whole internet, and even made some websites too expensive to run because of this. They use Google search to improve their prompts input. We should challenge the view that their tools’ output can’t be used by anyone to train models, as it is logical that we should

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 23/02/2026

@rebeccabellan.bsky.social hi! I’m a bit surprised that you took the framing of companies using Anthropic AI generation to train their models as attacks without challenging it. Anthropic trained on downloaded and scanned books, copyrighted materials, when AI answers bear no copyright at all.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 11/02/2026

Test it here: juliendorra.com/blobkeyboard

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 11/02/2026

Students using the Blob Keyboard (2005) simulator to learn about the iPhone OS design story and the strange paths of prototyping 😃 @kocienda.bsky.social

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 04/02/2026

Invent machines for imagining. Sway between control and the unexpected. SLOP Gala lets you create an outfit no one has seen before you. There's millions of fits to craft. Some might be ridiculous. Others, brilliant. And you decide which is which! try it: slopgala.com

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 01/02/2026

Allez, je l'affirme, j'ai créé la meilleure IA avant-garde de mode 😅 Et elle est super simple à utiliser : on choisis des inspis qu'on aime, on les mixe, et on compose une tenue jamais vue, par personne avant nous ! slopgala.com

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 31/01/2026

I think I created the best avant garde fashion AI, and it’s super easy to use: pick inspos you like, mix them, and craft an outfit that nobody has ever seen! slopgala.com

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 25/01/2026

Are you ready for the SLOP Gala?

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 21/01/2026

The Fit / The Look at the SLOP Gala. Did you get your invitation?

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

Limitation: the system disk isn’t saved between sessions. Use screenshots + timelapse videos to keep an archive of your work. Thanks @persistent.info for the emulator and embed API 🙏 Infinite Mac infinitemac.org has been an incredible resource! I’m excited to use it more in workshops and lectures

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

- Save clean screenshots of the Macintosh display. Save in MacPaint and name your drawing, the screenshots use that name (in-browser OCR). - Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

- Real-size display option to match the 9” Macintosh CRT screen. Uses a custom list to guess your physical display size, with calibration for purists. Great to feel the constraints Bill Atkinson, Jeff Raskin, and Susan Kare faced when designing the UI. (even more below!)

Macintosh emulated display captured at real size on a MacBook screen

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

It uses the insanely great Infinite Mac as the embedded emulator—and adds useful tools around it: - One-click shortcut to open MacPaint - Crisp fullscreen by default, perfect for the original 1-bit UI. (more below!)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

It’s also pure fun: draw in a retro way and explore the creative constraints of 1-bit illustrations.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

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/

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/10/2025

2-minute pottery in Mac Paint 1.0. Time lapse created using juliendorra.com/macintosh/

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 13/10/2025

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

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 08/10/2025

You should care about Kare (because she's the first digital design professional)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 03/10/2025

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?

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 28/09/2025

the full book: vintageapple.org/macprogrammi...

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 28/09/2025

Artificial Intelligence programming book from… 1986

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/09/2025

I wanted to see if this video model would keep the grain, blooming and specific color quality of old sensors. And it did. What is the benefit? It allows to define the style not textually but visually, which is faster and better for people who have already mastered photo and video.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/09/2025

What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 20/09/2025

Black Lava, made with Live Code Lab

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 19/09/2025

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

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 06/09/2025

Créez le problème pour mieux annoncer la solution 🙃

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 05/09/2025

By the way, the images are all generated using Flux Schnell, a very fast <2s, and quite small open weight image gen model, that can give you great results if prompted right. In this case the prompts are themselves generated and decided by the text model based on a mix of traits.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 05/09/2025

What if nobody knew what you will found playing? What If the experience was about finding the paths that nobody has ever taken? How to balance between randomness and consistency? These are key design question for native generative AI user experiences. These are some of the early results.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 05/09/2025

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?

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 25/08/2025

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.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 22/08/2025

AI chatbots: so cheerful and happy to grant your wish in a totally wrong way

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 09/08/2025

The world before containerization (Retable of Saint Nicholas, ≈1479/1505)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 08/08/2025

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)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 05/08/2025

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.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 01/08/2025

So passing by, I took the occasion to shoot it with my Mavica F5. No zoom, just a fixed lens equivalent to 40mm that lead to this nearly fully black picture… and I love it! With a zoom, I would probably have made a closer shot, and lost the dramatic contrast.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 01/08/2025

The Paris Olympics flame will be up again in the Tuileries garden of the Louvre for 3 summers, thanks to the benefits the Paris Olympics made (I think it's the first ever Olympics to make a profit)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 01/08/2025

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!

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 18/07/2025

And some context on the impact of Firefox OS internally by an insider who worked at Mozilla ludovic.hirlimann.net/2024/01/fire...

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Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 17/07/2025

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

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 01/07/2025

Today’s measured time savings with generative AI are far lower, around 3 times faster on certain tasks. And the spreadsheet is still here. Its UX is transparent, collaborative, and allows for gradual improvements. And AI chatbots?

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 01/07/2025

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.

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 10/06/2025

Early Aqua (10.1 2001) compared to later Aqua (10.7 2010)

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Julien Dorra @juliendorra.com · 08/06/2025

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…

a polaroid of the first pul down menu moved to the top for the LISA interface, with annotations on the bottom of the polaroid

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