Jasmine Otto
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Jasmine Otto
@jatazak.bsky.social
Visualization researcher in SF Bay, building intelligent interfaces for critical technical practitioners. On the job market.
PhD Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz. https://jazztap.github.io/
Caroline Humphrey's "A Nomadic Diagram", in Working With Diagrams (2022)
> Waddington (1940:11) thought of ‘landscape’ as a metaphor, a new virtual domain for envisioning “the whole complex system of actions and interactions which constitute [cellular] differentiation."
www.jstor.org/stable/27113...
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Excited to talk systems thinking across disciplines with the Dynamic Abstractions group this Fri. Ever wondered why obvious insights from hands-on prototyping are news to other experts, reviewers, & decision-makers? Join us over Zoom on Sep 19th at 9am PT / 12noon ET: dynamicabstractions.github.io
September 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Teaser: Figure 3 illustrates the Split Pass scenario, in which the JPL relay team lead diagnoses an allocation design issue.
August 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
> NPCs are almost always in transit
The real struggle when you make your Sims house too large
November 19, 2024 at 2:27 PM
#aiide24 EXAG opening talk! @tanyaxshort.bsky.social sharing production strategies for procedurally generated games
-How do you ship a storyworld?
-What are key development milestones?
November 19, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Visualization Artifacts are Boundary Objects @ VIS 2024, BELIV workshop.
Visualization artifacts both enable practitioner reflection, and mediate collaborations; they are boundary objects. Artifact-enabled design loops give rise to knowledge transit systems, revealed by visualization design studies.
November 13, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Why not? Threading my latest.

Visualization Notebooks are Paper Tools. CHI 2024 workshop on VisLit
Exploring the relationship between computational notebooks, interactive diagrams, and blackboard calculations - i.e., paper tools. Includes case study of 'The Romeo & Juliet Phase Space'.
osf.io/z2u3w
November 13, 2024 at 7:54 PM