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'''Loren Brichter''' (born November 15, 1984) is an American software developer who is best known for creating [[Tweetie]] and the [[pull-to-refresh]] interaction.
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Loren Brichter was born in [[Manhattan|Manhattan, New York]], on November 15, 1984. He is a son of contractor Gabor Brichter and real estate entrepreneur,
Brichter attended [[Tufts University]],
▲Brichter attended Tufts University where he initially intended to study [[Computer Science]]. He then switched majors twice, first to [[Computer Engineering]], then to [[Electrical Engineering]]. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science. He was offered free masters by the university, which he declined so that he could start his career. Prior to his graduation, he had considered dropping out early due to a different job offer from Apple by the beginning of his senior year. However, his family and his girlfriend convinced him to reject it so that he could graduate. Later on, he then got a new offer to work on the then secret iPhone and iPad project, which he accepted and worked on after he graduated.<ref name="Interview" />
==Career
From 2006 to 2007, Brichter worked at Apple as part of a five-person team<ref>{{cite news|last1=E. Lessin|first1=Jessica|title=High Priest of App Design, at Home in Philly|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324392804578358730990873670|accessdate=April 28, 2016|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=March 17, 2013}}</ref> responsible for making the iPhone's [[graphics hardware]] and software communicate. He left the company after iPhone 1.0 was complete. From 2007 to 2010, Brichter founded his own company, Atebits, in 2007, and released a small drawing app for Mac known as Scribbles.<ref name="Scribbles">{{cite web|last1=Appleyard|first1=David|title=Scribbles: Simple, Intuitive Drawing for Mac|url=http://mac.appstorm.net/general/scribbles-simple-intuitive-drawing-for-mac/|website=appstorm|accessdate=April 28, 2016}}</ref> Brichter then released his second app, [[Tweetie]], in 2008, where the [[pull-to-refresh]] interaction technique was invented. In the same year, Brichter also co-founded a company Borange.<ref>{{cite web|title=Borange|url=http://www.borange.com/|website=Borange|accessdate=April 28, 2016}}</ref> In 2009, he was the recipient of the Apple Designer of Year award. From 2010 to 2011, Brichter worked for [[Twitter, Inc.|Twitter]], at which point he would sell Tweetie and his company.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kincaid|first1=Jason|title=Twitter Acquires Tweetie|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/09/twitter-acquires-tweetie/|website=Tech Crunch|date=April 10, 2010 |accessdate=April 28, 2016}}</ref> Upon leaving Twitter in November 2011,<ref name="Fame" /> Brichter refounded Atebits, a different company which utilizes the same name as his startup from before. Atebits then released a word game app [[Letterpress (video game)|''Letterpress'']] in 2012, which was later sold to Solebon in early 2016. One of the reasons for the app's name was that the whole game operates with letters being pressed by a player's finger.<ref name=":0">{{Cite interview |last=Brichter |first=Loren |interviewer=Federico Viticci |title=A Conversation With Loren Brichter |url=https://www.macstories.net/msinterviews/a-conversation-with-loren-brichter/ |date=October 24, 2012}}</ref> After his time on Twitter, Brichter was asked by Mike Matas, an ex-colleague at Apple, to help with [[Facebook Paper]], an app Facebook was developing,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hamburger|first1=Ellis|title=This just in: Paper is the best Facebook app ever|url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/3/5373488/facebook-paper-app-review|website=The Verge|date=February 3, 2014|accessdate=April 28, 2016}}</ref> which later released in 2014. Although Paper did not incorporate the pull-to-refresh gesture that Brichter invented, the duo created new gestures and ideas for the project. Brichter's current plans include advising a few companies and spending most of his time working on his own projects.<ref name="Interview" />
=== Atebits ===
After Brichter re-founded the company, Atebits released [[Letterpress (video game)|''Letterpress'']] in 2012. ''Letterpress'' is a multiplayer word game that connects players using Apple's social gaming network, [[Game Center]]. He started ''Letterpress'' once he left [[Twitter, Inc.]] in November 2011.<ref name="Transcript" /> When Brichter first created the game, his wife was his first beta tester,<ref name=":0" /> and the rules of the game evolved from beta tests. In early 2016, ''Letterpress'' was sold to Solebon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Zac |date=July 20, 2016 |title=Letterpress word game lands on the Mac as Skype drops support for older OS X versions |url=https://9to5mac.com/2016/07/20/letterpress-word-game-mac-skype-legacy-os-x-support/ |access-date=December 9, 2023 |website=9to5Mac}}</ref>
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[[Tweetie]] was launched in 2008, and it was created to fill the absence of an in-house Twitter app for the Apple iPhone platform. Later on, in April 2009, Brichter also released Tweetie for Mac. Tweetie for both platforms was acquired by Twitter a year later.▼
▲atebits was first founded individually by Loren in 2007 after he left Apple. It was sold to Twitter in 2010. In 2012, following Brichter's departure from Twitter, he started a new company, again using the name atebits. The goal of the company is to create great apps for Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, and Mac. {{Citation needed|date=December 2016}}
=== Borange ===▼
In 2008, Brichter founded Borange with Mason Lee and Martin Turon
== Personal life ==
▲atebits' first app was Scribbles,<ref name="Scribbles" /> released in 2007. It is a basic drawing app for the Mac, inspired by [[MacPaint]].<ref name="Transcript" /> Scribbles offers some more advanced features than other basic drawing applications like MacPaint and [[Microsoft Paint]]. For instance, it allows for drawing on multiple layers in one image. Scribbles also use a hybrid vector rendering engine. As a result, resizing, scaling, zooming, and exporting images at high resolution can all be done with no reduction in quality. The app also allows users to share their illustrations with one another through integration with the Scribbles Gallery. Scribbles was Brichter's first attempt at building a custom UI framework.<ref name="Transcript" />
Brichter is married to Jean Whitehead, and together, they have three children.<ref name="Interview" />
Brichter is the creator of the
▲[[Tweetie]] was launched in 2008 and it was created to fill the absence of an in-house Twitter app for the Apple iPhone platform. Later on, in April 2009, Brichter also released Tweetie for Mac. Tweetie for both platforms was acquired by Twitter a year later.
▲==Borange==
▲In 2008, Brichter founded Borange with Mason Lee and Martin Turon, while he was living in Berkeley.<ref name="Interview" /> The company has created two apps, the first being Borange, a social availability app, that enables users to keep track of their friends’ activities through a social timeline view on their mobile device. By allowing users to privately share their recent availability and location with people from their address book, Borange aims to improve the experience of users in arranging mutually convenient times to meet on short notice. The second app, Textie, is a free messaging app across mobile devices. Both apps under Borange were released before push notifications or iMessage were introduced, creating a need for them in the market.
▲==Interaction Techniques==
▲===Pull-to-Refresh===
▲Brichter is the creator of the Pull-to-Refresh gesture that first came out on Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone. The gesture allows a user to pull vertically downwards on a touchscreen before releasing, to allow the page to refresh as opposed to former methods of pressing a refresh button. This gesture has since then been adopted by many apps on mobile devices, such as Mail in iOS.
===Cell Swipe===
Cell Swipe was also created by Brichter and released in Tweetie. The gesture involves swiping a cell off the screen to reveal a set of hidden icons and features.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bunton|first1=Cam|title=Don't know who Loren Brichter is? You should!|url=http://www.todaysiphone.com/2013/03/dont-know-who-loren-brichter-is-you-should/|website=Today's iPhone|accessdate=
===Sliding
The idea of sliding panels first emerged in Brichter's creation of Twitter for iPad where the panels would be horizontally stacked and swiped in by gesture. The panels of data that are swiped in created layers of tweets, people, and information that allow a user to browse increasingly more information
===Vertical
Other than gestures, Brichter has also introduced
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