Sade, arts & technology student at USC
“I’m actually in California. I just came back from South Africa. So, it’s it’s pretty crazy over here, with the wildfires and everything. I’m currently in school. I’m about to be a senior at University Southern California.
I’m studying arts, technology, and business. So I just, like, love anything tech related, design related, art related.”
“I’m working on this short film experience for planetariums. It’s called After You and explores what happens after we die—heaven, hell, nothingness, even living in the internet. My friends and I started it for a class, but now we’re bringing it to life. We’re animating scenes in Blender, rendering them for dome projection, and making the experience immersive… I love creating immersive experiences, but I’m not great at documenting my process.”
“I’m a digital hoarder, really badly.”
“The ‘Stuff’ feature is so unique—I’ve never seen anything quite like it.”
Different Contexts
“So I’m still definitely figuring out the best way to do that. But right now I have one [Context] for artistic practice, which is kind of where I’m thinking about what is my vision of why I make the art I do and what I wanna do with it and is it AI or different interactive experiences and stuff? Because I do a lot around AR, VR, and live experience. So just how my artist practice works there.”
“I made a different context … for books because this year, I really trying to get off TikTok and read more. So I’ve been reading a lot of books and taking a lot notes then I was trying to test out, the my stuff section with the books. And I thought it was really interesting how, reading through the PDF reader you can highlight stuff and then add notes in there, and then it’ll put it in my stuff.”
“I’ve been using Surf for a couple of weeks now, and I love the way it lets me create different contexts. I’m always juggling tabs, so being able to organize them better is such a relief. The ‘Stuff’ feature is so unique—it’s like a bookmarking tool, but way more creative. It feels like it was made for someone like me.”
In their day-to-day life, Surf plays a different but equally important role. “I’ve been using Surf’s annotation features while reading books, and I love how I can highlight sections and add notes that go straight into ‘Stuff.’ It’s still a bit unorganized, but I can see the potential. It’d be great if everything could automatically group by book, so I could find my highlights more easily.”
“So I think it’s cool, like, how y’all are integrating that into the web page with AI and everything. I felt like just I think because of how it looks, and, like, the design and everything, I felt like this is, like, more of a creative space and, like, play for, like, arts and tech and, like, what I’m interested in. So I think I’ve kind of been more evolved involved in it in that way and, like, looking at, like, oh, how can, like, I kind of curate, like, my artistic practice in this web browser and, like, being able to keep up with stuff better and, like, build off of it.”
“Surf feels like it’s built for people like me—creative, curious, and juggling so many tabs and ideas. It’s a space where I can explore, organize, and stay focused without hopping between tools. I’m still figuring out my workflow, but I can already see the potential for Surf to become my main browser.”
They smiled when asked about Surf’s experimental features. “I turned them on because I’m nosy. I even made a little countdown app. It’d be amazing if you could drag it onto the homepage and keep it there. Honestly, I think Surf is onto something big. It’s helping me stay organized and creative at the same time, and that’s no small thing.”
For Sade, Surf isn’t just another tool. It’s becoming part of how they manage ideas, explore creativity, and bring structure to their curiosity.