Patrick Keenan
Optimistic Futurist.Generative Simplifier.Humane Behaviourist.
Playful Mechanic.Canadian Urbanist.
I'm a designer/developer in Toronto. I’m focused on AI experiences, augmented reality, and the future of communication. My passion lies at the intersection of digital and physical worlds. Technology's greatest purpose is to bring people together, enhance our capabilities, and create more meaningful, shared experiences.
Explicit Topic Switching
This experiment focuses on how the user can actively guide the conversation's structure.
Live Transcription & Inline Actions
This experiment focuses on how text is presented and interacted with. The goal is to show how a conversation is understood on a sentence or word level.
Voice Visualization & Feedback
This experiment is about the visual language of the app, ensuring the user feels a sense of responsiveness and understanding.
Push to float words
A push-to-talk, screen-free communication device for kids. It's about fostering direct, ephemeral voice interactions without the distractions of modern media.
Founded an immersive adventure company, pioneering theatrical escape room games in Toronto.
Building for wearable AI experiences. Previously system interactions in augmented space.
Real-time calling and sharing experiences across instagram, facebook, messenger.
Built out prototypes, and product cases to demo digital infrastructure for the city of the future.
Developed an open standard that
helps people understand & use digital tech in the public realm.
Product dev of a privacy-preserving identity layer for the city to access city services.
Designed and launch an app to help friends share the best of what their city has to offer.
Drove multi-platform design for the intuitive, beautiful, note-capturing and organization tool.
Build products to help people plan & purchase travel across search, maps, ads, and mobile.
Work on travel, maps, android, keep during a time when design shifted toward Material design.
Prototyped pop-up product to connect idle spaces with good ideas so they work for real people.
Founded and ran a design studio. We made best selling books, flash micro-sites, and digital products.
Let's BuildTogether
I'm always looking to connect with curious and creative people. I'm particularly interested in finding a technical co-founder or collaborator in the Toronto area who is passionate about building new forms of communication.
If you have deep experience with real-time communication (RTC), embedded software, AI, or have taken hardware to manufacturing, I'd especially love to chat.
Patrick Keenan
Optimistic Futurist.Generative Simplifier.Humane Behaviourist.
Playful Mechanic.Canadian Urbanist.
I'm a designer/developer in Toronto. I’m focused on AI experiences, augmented reality, and the future of communication. My passion lies at the intersection of digital and physical worlds. Technology's greatest purpose is to bring people together, enhance our capabilities, and create more meaningful, shared experiences.
Digital
Sketchbook
This is a collection of little ideas, interactive prototypes, and concepts I'm exploring. They are questions about how we might live, play, and connect in the future.
Explicit Topic Switching
This experiment focuses on how the user can actively guide the conversation's structure.
Live Transcription & Inline Actions
This experiment focuses on how text is presented and interacted with. The goal is to show how a conversation is understood on a sentence or word level.
Voice Visualization & Feedback
This experiment is about the visual language of the app, ensuring the user feels a sense of responsiveness and understanding.
Push to float words
A push-to-talk, screen-free communication device for kids. It's about fostering direct, ephemeral voice interactions without the distractions of modern media.
ProfessionalJourney
My professional career has mostly been in designing and developing consumer products for innovative technology companies. I enjoy setting up research to find insightful nuggets, that inform products that empower humans to extend their abilities and connection.
Founded an immersive adventure company, pioneering theatrical escape room games in Toronto.
Building for wearable AI experiences. Previously system interactions in augmented space.
Real-time calling and sharing experiences across instagram, facebook, messenger.
Built out prototypes, and product cases to demo digital infrastructure for the city of the future.
Developed an open standard that
helps people understand & use digital tech in the public realm.
Product dev of a privacy-preserving identity layer for the city to access city services.
Designed and launch an app to help friends share the best of what their city has to offer.
Drove multi-platform design for the intuitive, beautiful, note-capturing and organization tool.
Build products to help people plan & purchase travel across search, maps, ads, and mobile.
Work on travel, maps, android, keep during a time when design shifted toward Material design.
Prototyped pop-up product to connect idle spaces with good ideas so they work for real people.
Founded and ran a design studio. We made best selling books, flash micro-sites, and digital products.
Let's BuildTogether
I'm always looking to connect with curious and creative people. I'm particularly interested in finding a technical co-founder or collaborator in the Toronto area who is passionate about building new forms of communication.
If you have deep experience with real-time communication (RTC), embedded software, AI, or have taken hardware to manufacturing, I'd especially love to chat.
Patrick Keenan
Optimistic Futurist.Generative Simplifier.Humane Behaviourist.
Playful Mechanic.Canadian Urbanist.
I'm a designer/developer in Toronto. I’m focused on AI experiences, augmented reality, and the future of communication. My passion lies at the intersection of digital and physical worlds. Technology's greatest purpose is to bring people together, enhance our capabilities, and create more meaningful, shared experiences.
Digital
Sketchbook
This is a collection of little ideas, interactive prototypes, and concepts I'm exploring. They are questions about how we might live, play, and connect in the future.
Explicit Topic Switching
This experiment focuses on how the user can actively guide the conversation's structure.
Live Transcription & Inline Actions
This experiment focuses on how text is presented and interacted with. The goal is to show how a conversation is understood on a sentence or word level.
Voice Visualization & Feedback
This experiment is about the visual language of the app, ensuring the user feels a sense of responsiveness and understanding.
Push to float words
A push-to-talk, screen-free communication device for kids. It's about fostering direct, ephemeral voice interactions without the distractions of modern media.
ProfessionalJourney
My professional career has mostly been in designing and developing consumer products for innovative technology companies. I enjoy setting up research to find insightful nuggets, that inform products that empower humans to extend their abilities and connection.
Founded an immersive adventure company, pioneering theatrical escape room games in Toronto.
Building for wearable AI experiences. Previously system interactions in augmented space.
Real-time calling and sharing experiences across instagram, facebook, messenger.
Built out prototypes, and product cases to demo digital infrastructure for the city of the future.
Developed an open standard that
helps people understand & use digital tech in the public realm.
Product dev of a privacy-preserving identity layer for the city to access city services.
Designed and launch an app to help friends share the best of what their city has to offer.
Drove multi-platform design for the intuitive, beautiful, note-capturing and organization tool.
Build products to help people plan & purchase travel across search, maps, ads, and mobile.
Work on travel, maps, android, keep during a time when design shifted toward Material design.
Prototyped pop-up product to connect idle spaces with good ideas so they work for real people.
Founded and ran a design studio. We made best selling books, flash micro-sites, and digital products.
Principles
A few core beliefs that guide my work and my view of the future.
Technology is for bringing people together. Its goal should be to bridge gaps, not widen them. The ultimate interface is another person.
The physical world will be programmable. The digital world will become place-based. Presence will span both realms, dissolving the boundary between here and there.
Behaviour is truth. How people act is more revealing than what they say. My work starts with observing human behaviour and designing for it.
We move from sending messages to working on models. Real-time collaboration (like in Figma or on a whiteboard) is the future of creation. We are entering an era of synchronous dialogue with our tools and each other.
Everything lives in a universe. People want to live in a story. Great products have a core belief about the world and invite users to be part of that story.
Extend human ability. The goal isn't just progress for its own sake, but to extend our senses, our creativity, and our connection to one another. We are symbiotic with the machine; we must shape it to make us better.
Let's BuildTogether
I'm always looking to connect with curious and creative people. I'm particularly interested in finding a technical co-founder or collaborator in the Toronto area who is passionate about building new forms of communication.
If you have deep experience with real-time communication (RTC), embedded software, AI, or have taken hardware to manufacturing, I'd especially love to chat.