Jayse hansen biography

UI design futurist Jayse Hansen on his career designing holograms and advanced future tech for Iron Man, Robocop, Katniss, Spiderman and many other superheroes and characters.
By Meleah Maynard

Jayse Hansen remembers exactly where he was when he realized what he wanted to focus on as an artist.

It was 2005 and he was at a design conference listening to fictional user interface (FUI) pioneer Mark Coleran describe how he created FUI for films like Mission Impossible, Alien vs. Predator and The Bourne Identity.

Watching intently as Coleran presented his screen designs for mini spy cameras, holo tables and FBI forensic labs, he thought: “That has to be the best job ever.” Though he knew nothing about how to get started, he knew he wanted in.

Back home, he couldn’t stop thinking about how FUI combined his favorite parts of feature films—high-tech design, advanced visual effects, slick animation and 3D compositing. So he embarked on a path to learn everything h