I design the places where interfaces, agents, and physical hardware meet.
Interaction designer with two decades in consumer hardware, now prototyping AI-native systems. My focus: how a device decides when to act on your behalf, and how it earns that permission.
Site: briankerr.design
- Ambient Autonomy Eval: An eval for one ambient-agent decision: should it observe, suggest, act, or refuse? Hand-labeled cases across wearables, car cabins, factories, medical devices, and robots. Run 1 scored 48/50. After defining "safety-related" and adding 4 act cases, Run 3 scored 54/54.
- Safety Line: A RAG reference tool for safety guidance on physical and ambient AI. It answers from 8 public NIST, NHTSA, FDA, OSHA, and AI Safety Report documents, cites page numbers, and says so when the documents don't cover a question.
- briankerr.design: Work, writing, and what I'm doing now.
- The Context Window: Curated tech news across AI, hardware, software, design, and science.
- More hardware and agent projects: coming soon.
- synth.cards: Browser modular synthesizer. Twelve module types, real patch cables, AudioWorklet audio at 44.1 kHz. Source
- Every Espresso: Interactive anatomy of espresso extraction. Every shot is a 25-second chemistry experiment. Source
- Fractals & Chaos: GPU-accelerated fractal explorer: Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Newton. Real-time WebGL shaders with a 3D height map. Source
- Ocean Depths: The ocean's five pelagic zones. Light, thermoclines, pressure, bioluminescence, and the SOFAR channel. Source