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Hi, I'm David

Creative technologist, systems thinker, and multidisciplinary artist.

  • 🧠 Creative Technologist with roots in full-stack web dev, Flash animation, and systems design.
  • 🎥 Spent 15 years as a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist in music/fashion.
  • 🖥️ Originally built immersive sites + backend tools for PlayStation, Pixar, 20th Century Fox.
  • 🗂️ Obsessive about cognitive UX and custom systems for media, memory, and focus.
  • 🧩 Currently building ProjectPilot (focus OS) and MemoryAssistant (dementia-friendly interface).
  • 🛠️ Working in Python, SQLite, OpenAI, local LLMs — learning fast, building real.
  • 🤝 Seeking collaborators who care about humane tech, brain-aligned interfaces, and real-world impact.
  • get in touch!

bio + mission

I've spent the last 15 years working professionally as a filmmaker, photographer, and designer. Before that, I began my career in tech: building immersive Flash websites and games for films, brands, and platforms like Pixar, PlayStation, and 20th Century Fox. I designed and built full-stack systems from scratch in PHP/MySQL, including internal CMSs and production management tools used by teams of 60+ people.

I’ve always been drawn to systems thinking, and how interface design connects with memory, cognition, and perception. Even while working in the creative world, I’ve maintained deep fluency across media systems — building infrastructure to manage massive libraries of music, photo, video, and code. My early Flash work gave me a foundational mindset: rethink the interface, start from scratch, design for the human.

In recent years, my frustrations with modern UX — from Finder to iOS — led me to develop new interaction concepts. I began building a topic-based interface layer that sits above the OS, reducing friction and surfacing tools only when contextually needed. This eventually became ProjectPilot, a personal productivity OS for high-entropy minds.

And then, my mum got diagnosed with dementia. She’d went from being a computer-whizz to not being able to use her TV remote control.

What started as speculative design became essential. I built her a custom device that replaces her TV, turning it into a single-button interface for entertainment, therapy, and communication. It now handles video calls, memory prompts, media playback, and time-based reminders... all without requiring her to hold a phone or navigate menus. The underlying architecture evolved into MemoryAssistant, with other tools like LifeLines, LetterScanner, and CalendarBuddy branching out from the same core principles: remove friction, increase clarity, align with the brain.

I'm currently building functional demos of these systems using Python, SQLite, OpenAI, and local LLMs. Development is slow so I'm looking to connect with devs, collaborators, and systems thinkers who share this mindset and can help bring these tools to life.

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  1. MemoryAssistant MemoryAssistant Public

    AI-powered memory interface for structured recall, built for humane UX and dementia support.

  2. ProjectPilot ProjectPilot Public

    **ProjectPilot** is a lightweight, modular productivity engine designed to unify notes, tasks, sessions, and logs into a single intelligent workflow system.

  3. LifeLines LifeLines Public

    An innovative, animated interface that displays a person’s life across multiple time-based streams. Designed for clarity, memory recall, and visual storytelling.

  4. davidterranova-designer davidterranova-designer Public

    Multidisciplinary designer, filmmaker, musician, ex-Flash developer. Designing humane, high-concept tech that align with cognition, care, and simple complexity

  5. CalendarBuddy CalendarBuddy Public