bothy. — the job application, one gesture at a time

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Northbeam CareersProduct Design Intern · Application

Full name

Phone

Email Portfolio URL Why Northbeam? Resume (PDF)

Tap to attach — bothy. shows up as a source

Headshot — optional (image)

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Riya · Northbeam recruitingreplied 2m ago

Strong application, Alex! Can you send your LinkedIn and a couple of times to talk this week?

Guests at the doorvia text

we're outside!! what's the wifi??

Split the depositbank transfer form

Recipient IBAN Reference

release to paste

Swipe in to tuck it away

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The overlay · Android Being built · simulated here

Apply to Northbeam using only the overlay

The phone is inside Northbeam's careers app. The round button on its edge is bothy. — it floats over whatever app you're in. Fill the whole application without ever leaving the form.

The moves

Tap the round button	Opens and stays. Copied something just before? The overlay catches it — or offers to, depending on the catch switch below. Spin the ring: it steps one item at a time and settles — a fast flick carries a few extra clicks; the item at the index mark is up. Tap it — copied, receipt, and the box you were in grows a Paste chip: tap that and the job is done. Tap the glass centre to put the overlay away.
One ring, everything on it	Your two pinned items hold the edge slots — same place forever, tap to use — and everything else follows, newest first, all types together. Colour says the type: amber is text, rust is a link, violet is an image.
Hold · slide out · release	One finger, never lifting. Hold the button and slide out onto the ring, then arc your finger to spin it. Release on an item to take it and put the overlay away.
Hold · drag	Drag the button anywhere and let go — it clings to the nearest frame edge, at the height you left it, and stays there.
Double-tap the button	Your most recent item, instantly. No ring, no aiming.
Hold — it comes to you	Hold, and the ring comes to you. Hold an off-center item and the ring walks it to the index mark, then stops. Hold either end of the arc — or drag past it and stay — and the ring keeps cruising from that end, gathering speed, until you let go.

The panel below changes how the overlay feels. Flip one switch, run the errand again.

The overlay

Size

Edge handle

Pick Sliver for when the button feels in the way, then swipe it into the edge — it tucks to a slim tab, nearly flush. Tap the tab and it is back.

How it behaves

Tap an item

New copies

On a real phone the overlay copies and the box grows a Paste chip — one tap finishes it. Filling the box outright is a demo convenience, so the speed is easy to feel here.

Where you are

Just looking is the overlay with nothing to type into: links and files come forward and picking one opens it, and plain text steps off the ring entirely so the slots stay full of things you can actually use. The one exception is something you have just caught — that stays, so you can see it arrive. Your phone works this out on its own — there is no switch on the real thing. Opening here shows a line, because a browser cannot actually appear inside the frame.

What it shows

Marks

Five ways the ring can mark what it is holding, from today's chips down to bare dots. Same metal, same moves — rule by eye.

Preview

Floating puts whatever is up at the top of the screen, so your eyes can stay up there while your thumb spins down here.

Peek

Neighbors sits the previous and next item beside the floating preview — tap one to step. Fan blooms every label outward when the overlay opens and leaves them there.

Try it

The first pretends you copied something elsewhere; the second replays the one-time permission moment. Add a photo and it joins the overlay; add a document and it shows up when you attach inside the form — the file never leaves this browser, only its name is remembered.

Select any text on this page and a Save to bothy. chip appears — write a line of your own cover letter, save it, then reuse it on the keyboard page.

The keyboard · iOS Concept exhibit

Second application of the day — this time on the iPhone

This is the iOS surface: your stuff rides the keyboard. Tap into any box on the phone and the vault comes up first — you drop in, take what you came for, and leave. Swipe left and the keys page is a faithful twin of the iPhone keyboard — same shapes, same moves, same feel — with one strip of your stuff where the suggestions would be. On Android the overlay carries this job instead.

This keyboard is iPhone and iPad. The frame you picked is Android hardware — there, the overlay is how the vault travels.

Five things to try

Tap a box, tap a tile	The vault opens first — pins up front, newest after, everything in one strip. A tile lands right at your cursor, done. A box that can't take a thing just dims it: tap into Email and watch the images grey out; the message box lights everything back up.
Swipe left — the keys	A faithful twin of the iPhone keyboard. Keys balloon when you press them, tap shift twice for CAPS, hold e for accents, 123 and #+= for numbers and symbols, two quick spaces end a sentence. Your vault rides the strip above the keys — tap a chip and it lands at the cursor. The gear tunes sounds and the return key.
X-ray it	Flip X-ray below and every part says who owns it: green is ours, blue is Apple's design rebuilt by us, and rust marks what only Apple's own keyboard can have — password autofill, codes from Messages, dictation. Those stay ghosts on ours, by iOS's rules, which is why leaving is one tap.
Tap the password box	iOS hands passwords to Apple's own keyboard, automatically. Watch the swap — nothing custom ever sees a password.
Leave	One tap on back to your keyboard — or the globe under the keys — and you're typing on your own again. iOS brings up whichever keyboard you used last, so a fast exit is part of the design.

Also here: search runs on our own keys (a keyboard can't summon a keyboard), and the Interview thanks tile asks you to fill a blank before it inserts. Replay the first run below shows the one-time Full Access moment — try both answers. On the iPad frame the keys widen into the iPad arrangement, with the tuck-away key at the bottom corner.

What it shows

X-ray

Tints every part of the keyboard by who owns it — ours, Apple's design rebuilt by us, or the parts only Apple's own keyboard can have.

Try it

A photo you add joins the strip; a document shows up when you attach inside the form. Nothing uploads — only the name is remembered.