Blaze Pollard

Experience

I work at Courtyard as a Senior Product Designer.

Before that I was a Senior Designer at PartyDAO for four years.

Earlier I was a Design Engineer at Bitovi, building for Lowe's, Levi's and Walmart, and a Web Designer at Scribd.

Projects

Wind Vector - A free 3D map of the wind from sea level to 100,000 ft, with temperature, humidity, wind shear and more.

Toolbox - A menu bar app for Mac that runs local AI models, answers from an offline wiki and shows every step.

media-genius - An AI agent that makes cinematic product films in code and learns from every job.

Jackery iOS Concept - A redesign of a power station app for iPhone.

Elsewhere

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Jackery iOS Concept

A redesign of the Jackery power station app for iPhone.

Unofficial concept. Not affiliated with Jackery.

Before and after

The current app on the left of each pair, the concept on the right. Same data, one number in focus.

Current app, Devices screen: a large banner ad and two device cards.
Before
Devices screen: a promo card and two device cards, Explorer 1500 at 78% charging and FridgeGuard at 100%.
After
Current app, FridgeGuard screen: an orange ring at 95% and rows of zero-watt readings.
Before
FridgeGuard detail: a tick gauge at 100%, temperature, and output source.
After

Principles

  1. A precision instrument

    Tick gauges, tabular numbers and one focal number on every screen.

  2. Native to iOS 26

    Liquid Glass chrome, a floating tab bar and SF Pro, so it feels like part of the phone.

  3. Readable in sunlight

    A Day theme with stronger contrast for checking a station outdoors.

  4. Motion with a job

    Springs that show where a screen came from and what changed.

Screens

Devices

Devices screen: a promo card and two device cards, Explorer 1500 at 78% charging and FridgeGuard at 100%.
Devices. Every station at a glance, with real product photos.
Explorer 1500 detail: a tick gauge at 78%, input and output watts, and port toggles.
Explorer 1500. Charge gauge, live power flow and port toggles.
FridgeGuard detail: a tick gauge at 100%, temperature, and output source.
FridgeGuard. Charge, temperature and output source.

History

Battery level: a 24-hour charge chart with low, high and swing below it.
Battery level. The last 24 hours in one chart.
Power stats: energy charged and discharged per hour, with Day, Week, Month and Year tabs.
Power stats. Energy in and out by day, week, month or year.
Device settings: grouped rows for general, power and about.
Settings. Grouped rows, each with its current value.

Home and account

System: live power flow from solar and grid through both devices to the outlets.
System. Live power flow from solar and grid to both devices.
Store: a solar panel and two power stations with photos and prices.
Store. Accessories that work with the stations you own.
Me: appearance, temperature unit, Home Screen widgets and account.
Me. Appearance, units and account.

Night and Day

Night is the default. Day fills in the glass and raises contrast for direct sun.

Explorer 1500 detail: a tick gauge at 78%, input and output watts, and port toggles. Night theme.
Night
Explorer 1500 detail: a tick gauge at 78%, input and output watts, and port toggles. Day theme.
Day
System: live power flow from solar and grid through both devices to the outlets. Night theme.
Night
System: live power flow from solar and grid through both devices to the outlets. Day theme.
Day

Motion

  • Device cards morph into their detail screen. The name and charge fly to their new spots.
  • Numbers roll to new values instead of jumping.
  • The tab selection stretches as it slides, then settles.
  • On launch, the charge ring fills and hands off to the Devices screen.
  • Power lines pulse faster as more watts flow.
  • With Reduce Motion on, fades stay and movement goes.

Widgets and Lock Screen

Charge and time to full without opening the app.

iPhone Home Screen with a small charge widget and a medium widget for both devices.
Home Screen. A small widget for one station, a medium one for both.
Lock Screen with a charging Live Activity showing 78% and time to full.
Lock Screen. A Live Activity while it charges, and the Dynamic Island.

Toolbox

A menu bar app for Mac that runs local AI models, answers from an offline wiki and shows every step.

Built for my own Mac. Not released.

Toolbox panel mid-answer: Plan and Gather are done, Write is under way, and each step card is tagged model or data.
The finished answer about the northern lights, with citations and two Wikipedia sources.

How an answer is made

Every step shows in the panel as it runs. Each one is tagged: AI, plain code or fetched data.

  1. Plan

    • AIPlans the searches
    • AIPicks what to read

  2. Gather

    • DataSearches the wiki
    • DataReads the articles

  3. Write

    • AIDrafts the answer

  4. Check

    • AIChecks each claim
    • CodeChecks every number
  • AIA model on the Mac
  • CodePlain code, no model
  • DataFetched from the wiki or the web

The offline wiki

Questions that need facts search an offline library and cite it. No source, no number: figures not in the sources are removed.

A finished wiki answer: nine steps folded into one line, the answer with numbered citations, two sources and one related article.

Pictures

Switch to Image and describe a picture. Enhance writes a detailed prompt first, and the picture renders on the Mac.

A misty alpine lake at dawn, one bare tree in the water and snowy peaks behind, rendered on the Mac.
“A quiet alpine lake at dawn.” Enhance wrote: “Dawn light breaking over a still alpine lake, mist rising from the water’s surface, distant snow-capped peaks reflected in the glassy lake…”

Web

Turn on the globe for a chat to search the web, read links and check live weather.

The input bar: Chat and Image, the globe turned on, a plus button and send.

Learning

Train keeps an answer as a lesson for similar questions. Bad marks one to fix.

Training Examples: filters for Good, Bad and Problems, a logged problem and a picture marked Bad with a note.

The Mac at work

Two meters at the top of the panel show how hard the GPU is working and how much memory is in use.

The panel header: GPU at 87 percent and memory at 59 percent.

Private

  • Models run in Ollama on the Mac.
  • Chats are saved on the Mac.
  • Nothing goes out unless Web is on.

media-genius

An AI agent that makes cinematic product films in code. Every frame is drawn, with no stock footage and no image model.

Built for my own Mac. Not released.

What it makes

  • Product films, 2D and 3D, in any format
  • Demos built from a live site's real components and design tokens
  • Lottie animations for apps and sites
  • Animated SVGs and icons
  • Sound effects and music made in code
  • Math loops

How a film gets made

Ask for a video in the terminal. It shows its work at each step, and the final renders only on your OK.

  1. Ask

    A video, in plain words.

  2. Questions

    One round: format, theme, style, words, length, sound.

  3. Storyboard

    The idea, the shots and their rhythm.

  4. Stills

    Key frames and a cover.

  5. Draft

    A fast render of the whole film.

  6. Review

    Frame by frame, scored against the brief.

  7. Final

    Motion blur and full quality, on your OK.

How it’s built

One file says how it works. The rest is a toolkit it reads as it goes: code that draws and renders, guides, and a registry of named styles.

Brands live outside it, one folder each, so the agent itself stays neutral.

  • ~/.claude/agents/
    • media-genius.mdthe agent: jobs, steps, quality bar
    • tools/media-genius/
      • VERSION2.6.3
      • video/
        • kit.pybuild, render, check
        • lookframe-by-frame review sheets
        • guides/craft, promos, review, 3D
          • STYLES.md22 named styles
      • sound/music and effects in code
  • ~/Documents/Brands/<brand>/
    • BRAND.mdfacts, voice, what never to show
    • theme.jsoncolors and fonts

How it learns

Every job ends with one lesson, written into the one guide where it belongs. The next job starts from it.

  1. A job

    A film, start to finish.

  2. A lesson

    One rule, in one guide, with no names.

  3. A version

    VERSION goes up: 2.6.2 to 2.6.3.

  4. A push

    The next job reads it.

Recent lessons

  • 2.6.3

    What a UI needs before it can be filmed well. A link to every screen, a mode that freezes motion for stills, and fixed demo data.

  • 2.6.2

    Ask before re-rendering after approval. Report a flaw and ask, even to fix it.

  • 2.6.1

    A wide film into a tall one. Move the camera again; a wider lens bends everything.

What it made

Jackery iOS Concept Toolbox
Wind Vector

Motion studies

Button to menu morph
Morph
Bottom sheet
Sheet
Favorite star
Favorite
Toggle switch
Toggle
Waves
Orbits
Light loom
Wind