Role: Principal Architect

Following the success of the Popcorn.js web sequencing JavaScript library, its designers—including Brett Gaylor and Ben Moskowitz—wanted to build a web-based editor tool with the library at its center, taking cues from popular video editing software, like Final Cut, iMovie, and Blender.

After several prototypes and revisions, various workshops and design sprints, and a collaboration with CDOT at Seneca College in Toronto, Popcorn Maker was launched. It let users synchronize elements of the web—like images, subtitles, Twitter feeds, etc.—with video and audio from the web (YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, etc.). In effect, it was the world’s first interactive web-experience creator.

While Mozilla has since shut down its instance of Popcorn Maker, the project lives on at the Internet Archive, and its code is still available on github.