Yousef Abuyaseen

Class Radio

A shared playlist for a class or any group. Everyone adds 1 to 5 songs a month from whatever app they use, and it all builds into one mix that plays on a shared speaker. Each month starts fresh, and the old mixes stay in an archive.

The whole thing is a first-generation iPod you scroll with your thumb. Nobody needs an account, songs open in Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music, and you can pick from your own library. I made it for my class and open-sourced it so anyone can set one up for their group in about 15 minutes.

Finda

I've been collecting drum sounds and SFX for 10 years and ended up with a 70 GB folder I could never find anything in. So I built finda, a plug-in for Ableton that plots every sound out on a map, by sound, genre or folder.

You can also draw the shape of the hit you're hearing in your head and it finds the closest ones.

cycleSOS

Shared e-bikes spend most nights parked on the street doing nothing, and we wanted to put them to work keeping people safe. Five of us built it from the circuit up: an SOS button that lives on the bike, plus an app that shares your ride with a friend.

Amazeing

A physical maze that tilts with your body movements through machine learning. A camera reads how you're standing and motors tilt the board to match.

Vivienne

Vivienne is an art deco noir detective game that is made up entirely of text. It was a fun project to explore ASCII and ANSI characters and their potential, and to create a virtual soundscape for my music.

IGF Village

I designed the floor layout for the UN IGF 2024 Village in Riyadh, grouping more than 100 organisations by theme so people could have a cohesive experience visiting the booths. Also featuring as an MC for the Village Stage.

Stages

I ran the stages at LEAP, the Digital Government Forum and Digital Saudi Day, more than 320 participations a year. To keep up, I built a planning tracker that took event prep from 10 weeks down to 4 weeks.

Gallery

Inspired by a TikTok, Gallery is a daily effort tracker, built as a journal for people who don't normally journal.

Workout tracker

I built an app to track my own workouts, with a way to customise each workout and save it into a year-by-year viewer.

My upper/lower split and Muay Thai sit on one screen. Built for exactly how I train, and nothing else.

PlateMate

My final year project at the University of Westminster. A restaurant recommendation engine that learns your taste the more you use it, built in Python with Flask and Firebase.

Freddy Fargo

I've been making music for 10 years as an expressive outlet, and I love exploring sound and just about any type of music that moves me. I've released a couple of albums experimenting with different directions and love the idea of digital soul music.