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Mike Matas

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Entrepreneur, designer, gardener, husband, dad. | UI Design iPhone, iPad, Mac OS X, Nest, Paper | Founder Push Pop Press, Lobe | Designer at LoveFrom

Healdsburg, CA
Joined June 2009
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Say hello to Monty.
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6 years
Excited to share my new project! Introducing Lobe, an easy-to-use visual tool that lets you build, train, and ship custom deep learning models without writing code.
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11 months
A peek at our home studio in this month’s Dwell.
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This off-grid design studio feels like it’s floating in a forest:
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Feeling grateful to have collaborated with and learned from so many wonderful people and projects over the years. Enjoyed reflecting on these while creating this timeline of my work. Give it a swipe…
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A series of photos Steve Jobs took in my office testing Photo Booth filters in 2005. Rest in peace. http://t.co/P6mP5gPv
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Make Something Wonderful. Read the new online book we designed at LoveFrom with the Steve Jobs Archive. — “Think of your life as a rainbow arcing across the horizon of this world. You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear.”
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4 years
Today I’m excited to launch a public preview of the new Lobe! Everything you need to train custom machine learning models in a free, easy to use app. Check it out!
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6 years
5 years ago today Facebook Paper was released. So cool to see this incredibly thorough archive of all the little interactions we worked so hard on.
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3 years
Excited to be working with this incredible group of people.
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6 years
I'm excited to announce that Lobe is being acquired by Microsoft! Their focus on AI research, global infrastructure, and developer tools will help ensure Lobe is able to scale to its full potential. The team is growing and working on some amazing stuff!
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We are thrilled to announce that we are joining Microsoft to help accelerate the development and rollout of Lobe!
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8 years
The original iPhone design team reunited for the 10 year anniversary of the launch.
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4 years
Watching our rooftop Nest Cam this evening as flames came over the ridge a mile away from our house. Then the 747 Supertanker came out of nowhere and knocked them back. The best I’ve felt all day. 🙏 #walbridgefire
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7 years
10 years ago today. #iPhone
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6 years
An in-depth tour of my new project "If you have any interest whatsoever in machine learning, drop what you’re doing right now and watch their 13-min introductory tour." @daringfireball
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13 years
My new film of made up of the nearly 4,000 photos I took on a recent trip to Japan on Vimeo. http://t.co/vkIN0oQ7
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9 years
Today was Sharon and my last day at Facebook. We are now looking forward to focusing on some new personal projects.
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5 years
Excited to welcome June Matas to our family! She was born in a hurry on Tuesday morning and we are all now back home happy and healthy.
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8 years
Really sad Facebook is shutting down Paper. Thanks to the more than a hundred thousand fans who were still using it after all these years.
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5 years
Hide and seek in our neighbor’s apple orchard. 🙈
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5 years
Really wish you could use your mouth to blow unwanted notifications off the top of the screen when they slide down in iOS. 😗💨
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4 years
Enjoyed spending 2020 quarantined with this pod and launching my startup Lobe. I’m planning on taking a break from work in 2021 to spend more time with our girls and garden before diving into my next project.
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10 years
Morning light through the fog and trees. http://t.co/oTUyOLjtpM
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5 years
We’re so excited to have another baby girl joining the family in October! 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧
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12 years
I received this awsome hand written fan letter from a 5th grader today. http://t.co/44xUcDTm
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6 years
Inspired by all the amazing deep learning app ideas submitted by the over 10k developers who signed up for the beta last week. Overwhelmed by the enthusiastic response. Thank you! 🙏
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8 years
We've got another Matas on its way in October. Can't wait to meet our new baby girl!
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4 years
Up late getting ready to launch something new next week. 🌜
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8 years
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6 years
Lobe is hiring! I'm looking for UI Designers who are excited to help define the future of how people train and interact with machine learning. DM me if you're interested. 👉
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9 years
Twitter Web Link vs Facebook Instant Articles http://t.co/6LA0v0Oe6K
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9 years
Just married 💕 http://t.co/xzN95YsZAH
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11 years
Really excited to have @lorenb helping my team out at Facebook.
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13 years
Even though I no longer work for Apple apparently I'm still designing some of their products. http://t.co/oioxTRv2 http://t.co/aEeRcjWb
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7 years
Driving over the mountains into California on our way home from Canada.
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11 years
One of our many awesome engineers @jasonpjason beautifully articulates why we created Paper and how it was developed. http://t.co/13bnVtAbM1
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10 years
Sharon and I went up to the place where we first went on a hike together and got engaged today. http://t.co/DqIyJcc1Hp
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10 years
Introducing Pop. The interactive physics animation engine behind Paper is now open source!
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9 years
Excited today to continue the journey I started 8 years ago with Push Pop Press with the launch of Instant Articles.
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5 years
June 1 month old, Olive 3 years old.
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6 years
Olive figured out what to do when I say smile!
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8 years
Taking in my first few moments with Olive last Monday. What a crazy week it's been.
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11 years
Social networks can be beautiful. I'm excited to finally share what I've been designing since joining Facebook. http://t.co/NsdVdiwZek
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11 years
Google street view images stitched together into amazing timelapse footage.
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5 years
Warming up with some hot chocolate on a rainy hike in the redwoods.
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12 years
A new film I made of an epic roadtrip across the USA composed of 5,000 photos. http://t.co/UCYW31Au
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Mike Matas
14 years
The best UX is one with no UI. Pinching into maps, scrolling a list, swiping through photos. Gesture are better than buttons.
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8 years
I stumbled across the most amazing wild flower bloom I've ever seen hiking along the coast yesterday.
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10 years
We just posted a series of tech talks about how our engineers built Paper to be a smooth physics based gestural app. http://t.co/ZaADK1q9oq
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9 years
Setting the candles for tonight's dinner in the beautiful Ahwahnee dining hall.
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13 years
Some really powerfull stuff beautifully explained by Bret Victor. A must read for any designer or engineer. http://t.co/CKm0oxQW
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9 years
First light on Half Dome after last night's snow storm.
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5 years
Olive and dad adventure day. 🥾🪁
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8 years
Just added a link to the download the Quartz Composer file for the Brain neural network demo I built.
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6 years
Cute, until she threw a bocce ball across the restaurant.
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9 years
Just finished a 2,000 mile road trip in our Tesla. It's pretty amazing self driving electric cars are now a reality.
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7 years
Brave face before her flu shots at the doctors office.
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9 years
Early morning in Yosemite.
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13 years
The director of Wall-E and Finding Nemo gave a great TED talk this year on story telling. http://t.co/xkjpEmhm
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9 years
Exploring the Eames house.
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10 years
Finished setting up our new studio in Healdsburg. http://t.co/vLKSTLMMM3
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13 years
Some awesome examples of browser interactions http://bit.ly/mRdsu2
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5 years
Olive admiring her birthday cake. Can’t believe she’s already 3!
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9 years
Twitter Web Link vs Facebook Instant Articles http://t.co/Pu4NA6nhv4
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14 years
NounProject, an amazing website with hundreds internationally recognized symbols available to download for free. http://bit.ly/i7Y8jj
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9 years
Elk grazing at 12,000 feet at the top of Rocky Mountain National Park. http://t.co/PVjjM6xNWJ
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6 years
Sunday walk. Rain or shine.
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8 years
A beautiful drive on the way to go camping.
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13 years
A new user interface I designed for the @nest learning thermostat. It saves tons of energy and is super easy to use. http://t.co/kwOGKKWC
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9 years
Love this area on the way back from Yosemite where the Sierra's meet the Central Valley.
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5 years
First taste of mint chip.
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12 years
If I could only see one film in my life it might be Samsara. Every frame was intensely beautiful. http://t.co/6O0A6E9K
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8 years
Some people reverse engineered my neural network Brain demo and wrote up a nice article on what they learned.
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9 years
This is all the HTML a publisher needs to write to create this Instant Article interactive map with an audio caption. http://t.co/2yVJIIZMdv
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5 years
This evening the evacuation order was lifted on our side of Healdsburg and we were able to return home. The fire can still be seen burning in the hills through binoculars but things are looking a lot better. Hoping the rest of our community can come home soon. 🤞 #KincadeFire
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Mike Matas
12 years
This 3D multitouch technology looks insane. They are apparently working on intergrating this into tablets and phones. http://t.co/NVv2H6Fl
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6 years
“If AI really is going to change the world, then it seems obvious that the more people who get involved, the better, especially people outside the tech world. With that in mind, Lobe looks like a perfect recruitment tool for a machine learning revolution.”
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4 years
Train your first custom machine learning in under 10 minutes with Lobe, a new app from Microsoft. Watch the full tour at
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6 years
Olive hiding in the garden with her flower camo.
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Olive’s photography skills 👌
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4 years
Designers can now train custom machine learning models with and use them to create intelligent prototypes in @FacebookOrigami . Looking forward to seeing the idea that come out of this! ✨
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4 years
Hints on how to get ⁦ @lobe_ai ⁩ running with Origami Studio.
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8 years
Our first pea popped out after a little rain this morning.
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7 years
Eerie light over the Columbia River Gorge from all the wildfire smoke.
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6 years
ROFL (rolling on the futon laughing)
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8 years
Hiking down to the Point Reyes lighthouse.
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8 years
It's been set loose. Starting today anyone will be able to publish Instant Articles!
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13 years
14 Of The Year's Best Ideas In Interface Design: Nest Thermostat http://t.co/LMCfDyFP
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9 years
Somewhere in Oregon.
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8 years
We took Olive on her first big hike today. She seemed to find it very relaxing.
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10 years
Recently I traveled to the Galápagos. One of the first creatures I got acquainted with was this Sally Lightfoot crab. http://t.co/hmq2v9Pjo7
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Mike Matas
4 years
Had a lot of fun designing with @RamonGilabert ! We worked remotely in opposite timezones overlapping for a few hours each day to collaborate so design never stopped. 🔃
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Ramon Gilabert
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✨ I am extremely excited to be showing you the new Lobe. An app that has everything you need to train machine learning models on your own computer for free! Check it out 👇
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7 years
Building a new douglas fir box for our bonsai tree.
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Mike Matas
15 years
"Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try to use the internet."
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