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BAO TO

DESIGN ENGINEER

Bao To — Design Engineer & Product Maker

Portfolio of Bao To, a design engineer and studio artist based in New York. Product design and full-stack engineering for AI-era software, alongside a collection of interactive canvas and WebGL simulations. The hero below is one of them: a pond you can tap to send ripples through, feed, and add ducks to. Scroll for selected projects, or use the navigation for work, art, writing, and contact details.

PROJECTS

Scraps (joinscraps.com)

Scraps (joinscraps.com)

Full StackDesktop & Mobile

AI Visual Thinking Canvas 0->1 for creatives.

DemoStudio

DemoStudio

Full StackFFMPEG

Make better-looking software product demos. #7 on ProductHunt & 2500+ users.

Zen Editor

Zen Editor

UX of AIDiffing Algos

AI Document Editor that syncs with Google Drive.

NotetakingLM

NotetakingLM

Weekend ProjectUX of AI

Designing a Graph-RAG LLM-based notetaking workflow.

Capsule

Capsule

HackathonUX of AI

1st Place @ Rice Designathon 2025. Reimagining digital journaling as a hunter-gatherer process.

Whatarethechords.com

Whatarethechords.com

3-Hour ProjectFull Stack

Search Agent for Guitar Chords. 3-hour full stack project with 15k+ queries ran.

iMessage Polls Concept

iMessage Polls Concept

2-Day ProjectConcept Design

Polls feature for group chats using Apple's Design System. 2-day concept design project.

Grapevine

Grapevine

BlockchainPrediction Market

Community-based prediction market built on Solidity, Hardhat, Chainlink. Making community participation fun through blockchain-powered forecasting.

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