Design engineer's portfolio hides a fish tank you draw into life with sketches
anselm · x · 2026-09-08
Design engineer John Hanacek's personal website turns his portfolio into an interactive aquarium: draw a loop for a fish, tap to drop food, draw a square for coral, a triangle for a jellyfish, a circle for bubbles.
His bio says he works at the intersection of AI, spatial computing and human-computer symbiosis, exploring MetaMedium (a framework for diagrammatic human-AI communication), dynamic design systems, and self-improving agentic research systems. Featured work includes founding design for OpenProse and the full redesign of Nanome 2's VR molecular visualization platform. The quoter's point: a personal website should feel like you've briefly left the rest of the internet.
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