Builds things worth teaching.
Teaches things worth building.
I am Ebrahim Montazeri. Twenty years of work at the seam of design, software, and learning. I run a small studio of one, a free toolmaker for first time makers, and a series of interactive explainers for systems most people only read about. I conceive the product, design the interactions, run the brand, and direct AI to ship the code.
A free toolmaker for first time makers.
Designer Bee
A browser based suite of parametric design tools. A handful of sliders becomes an export ready file for a laser cutter or 3D printer. No sign up, no install, no learning curve.
Parametric design tools
Find a Makerspace
Free, no-membership makerspaces at US public libraries: 3D printers, laser cutters, sewing machines, and more. Open to anyone with a library card. An interactive map covering all 50 states, rolling out one state per day.
Open the mapfind-a-makerspace →
3D printer
Laser cutter
Sewing
Vinyl
CNC router
EmbroideryComplex systems you can poke at.
Nuclear Fission
Power Plant
A working reactor. Draggable control rods, a chain reaction cascade, and a Story Mode that walks through startup, criticality, meltdown, and Chernobyl.
Try it →Black Hole
Time dilation made tangible. Two clocks, one probe, the event horizon.
Try it →Political Space Cube
Three axes of ideology in 3D. Tap a country. The empty corners tell the real story.
Try it →Fusion Power Plant
D-T fusion core, heat exchanger, turbine, grid. The whole chain.
Try it →nextComing next month
One curated piece a month. Quality over volume.
in progressHow I work.
I run the product.
The thing being built is mine. Audience, mission, scope, the call on what gets shipped and what is killed. Twenty years of running programs and small companies sit underneath this.
I design the interactions.
Brand, typography, motion, micro-copy, the three tier panel pattern in Designer Bee, the Story Mode in the reactor. The taste calls are mine, slider by slider.
I direct AI to ship the code.
Most of the production code in Designer Bee and the explorables is written by Claude Code under my direction. I review, redirect, refactor, integrate. The output ships because I can read it.
Teaching design thinking.
A current practice, not a credential.
I run design thinking workshops with real groups: framing problems before solving them, How Might We exercises, prototyping rounds. The work happens at community makerspaces, including the Velocity Center, with mixed-background participants tackling real challenges. A recent session framed household resilience: how to restore household function when something breaks without sacrificing time, money, or safety. IDEO certified at Practitioner, Co-Creator, Design a Business, and AI and Design Thinking levels, but the certifications are evidence, not the work. The work is the workshops.
Programs I have built or led.
Credentials.
Degrees
Certifications & badges
About.
I have spent the last twenty years moving between three rooms: the studio, where I make things; the classroom, where I teach what I have learned; and the workshop, where I help other people build the thing they have been carrying around in their head for years.
That sequence is the work. Designer Bee gives the workshop to anyone with a browser. The explorables turn the classroom into a thing you can hold. The programs I have founded were always some version of the same idea, only with more folding chairs.
I read papers, I cut wood, I run cables, I write CSS, I direct models that write the rest of the code. I am very interested in tools that turn passive readers into active makers, and in companies that take education as seriously as they take their roadmap.
The thread under all of it is the same instinct: that creating is a form of care, and that helping someone make the thing they have been carrying around in their head is one of the better uses of a life.
Contact.
Building Designer Bee, the explorables, and whatever comes next. Get in touch.