Arc Boosts

Throughout Arc's history, few things resonate with members more than personalization. People aren't used to having a say in how their software feels, and it shows!

With Boosts, we took Arc's trademark DIY theme-ability and applied it to the whole internet. You could change fonts and colors on a website effortlessly, and even delete whole groups of elements from webpages.

Some day I'll write more about it. Until then, some scattered images:

Iterations of the zapper tool, which lets you click one element and block it, or block elements like it. I wrote the algorithm for generating CSS selectors with a range of specificities that all target the clicked element, and designed the interface for it.

Iterations of the color mapper, which let you re-theme an entire website by playing with knobs. I worked wih with Darin Fisher, one of the original creators of Chrome, to implement the chosen color schemes as color transformation matrices applied within the Chromium renderer.