gray crawford

interaction designer*prototyper focused on generative UI, spatial interfaces, embodiment

spatial interaction engineer previously at Leap Motion / Ultraleap, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ml * physics artist interested in expressive tools, generative promptism, simulated phenomena

gif of VR Thesis on Embodiment and Alternative virtual physics — **Master’s Thesis ・ Developing Embodied Familiarity with Hyperphysical Phenomena**

**Gestural Control of Neural Network Imagery ・ Xoromancy**

**AR Hand UI for 3D Manipulation ・ NASA JPL**

Interface Prototyping ・ VR ・ AR ・ 2D ・ Haptics — **Interface Prototyping ・ VR ・ Haptics**

spreading out the whole conversation pic.twitter.com/K0kxNECB6r
— Gray Crawford ❄️🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) February 3, 2024

I've been working on this prototype for Vision Pro —

spreading + branching Twitter threads along multiple reply chains

there's so much space available!
why confine everything into a clipped window frame?

(also a great stress test for nested scroll views) https://t.co/t1tmzVGwI8 pic.twitter.com/ecHR5uj3ut
— Gray Crawford 🪡🦯🥢 (@graycrawford) October 17, 2023

loved sharing these ‘wide view’ explorations of iMessage history! 💬

hints at how spatial OSs give so much room to spread out

there’s so much personal meaning embedded across innumerable conversations

I’m stoked how XR can let us recall their breadth
February 12, 2023

branching conversation threads can form such a range of unique structures —
almost “displays” of their own convo patterns

reveals the potent messages thickened by sparking many replies, or where the extended continuities have like a laminar flow, or where it is literally shallow pic.twitter.com/uYn955MBu7
— Gray Crawford ❄️🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) February 11, 2022

thinking about new prompt-assembly systems pic.twitter.com/GFjY3Q7kpU
— Gray Crawford ❄️🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) June 14, 2022

Excited to share my fave project while at @Ultraleap,
Waft Locomotion! 🍃

Wafting with your hands allows nimble, fluid movement in VR —

Moving through the world is deeply human and feels good!
Any truly spatial computer must uphold our natural mobility.

→ 🧵 pic.twitter.com/ZEsi3VCVgd
— Gray Crawford 🧊🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) December 7, 2023

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I prefer to see my entire day’s scroll at once pic.twitter.com/PcbAADy44w
— Gray Crawford ❄️🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) September 5, 2023

four months of conversation pic.twitter.com/JwsT7Ikrpd
— Gray Crawford 🪡🦯🥢 (@graycrawford) June 4, 2021

scrubbing through a song’s spectrogram pic.twitter.com/53Q0J9Pc6K
— Gray Crawford 🪡🦯🥢 (@graycrawford) April 19, 2022

generated thumbnail marginalia for each paragraph, visual accompaniment

while writing, navigating your text with idiosyncratic waypoints instead of text blocks’ endless urban sprawl pic.twitter.com/vDzjYzxXGo
— Gray Crawford ❄️🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) September 12, 2021

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feel like it’s harder to build mental maps of our computing environs when we’re only ever shuffling objects into and out of view 📑

everything so tucked away 🗃 manual excavation

usually we move our bodies around territory & build maps innately 🧚

new OS needs “new feet” 🕸
— Gray Crawford ❄️🌊🫧 (@graycrawford) September 17, 2021

older work