Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface (2006)
Bret Victor, struggling
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Bret Victor led the team that founded Dynamicland
and invented Realtalk, the world‘s only self-hosted
spatial computing system.

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.

His later public-domain work on next-generation
programming interfaces has been viewed millions
of times, and directly inspired numerous products,
companies, and academic papers.

His work has won the Apple Design Award
twice. Computing pioneer Alan Kay has called
him “one of the greatest user interface design
minds in the world today”, and design legend
Edward Tufte recognized him as a “design theory
wizard, at the cutting edge of interface designs for
programming, seeing, reasoning”.

He has electrical engineering degrees from
Caltech and UC Berkeley.
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