Kai Krause
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Kai Krause in 2009
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March 14, 1957 Dortmund, Germany |
| Residence | Bad Breisig, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Website | kai |
Kai Krause (born March 14, 1957) is a German software and graphical user interface designer, best known for founding MetaCreations Corp., his Kai's Power Tools series of products, and for his contributions to graphical user interface design.
Born in Dortmund, Germany, Krause moved to California, United States in 1976. He worked with early synthesizers and vocoders, and contributed sound effects to almost thirty records and movies. During the 1990s he ran several software companies –HSC Software, MetaTools, MetaCreations– to develop tools for graphic designers.
In February 2005, the "DEMO" conference acknowledged him as one of the Top 15 Innovators of the last 15 years. Krause has a Master's degree from the Brooks institute in Santa Barbara, California (1996), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Essen, Germany (1999). Today Krause lives and works in the 1000-year-old castle Burg Rheineck near Bonn in Germany.
Krause significantly broadened conventional notions of the graphical user interface by applying innovative design principles and providing realtime interaction for the user, neither of which were widely deployed in the 1980s because of the low graphics abilities of the current hardware. Krause's products featured signature interface elements including soft shadows, rounded corners and translucency - all of which would later enjoy wider adoption, such as seen in Mac OS X, Windows XP Luna and Linux.
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