03Sleight of Hand

Magic.

I have performed magic since I was eight. To me it is a form of art — it brings joy to people and offers a different way of thinking, much like games do.

Magic and games rhyme. Both are systems built to surprise an audience. Both ask the designer to be honest about what people actually see, not what they think they see.

Watch

Routines, ideas, and rehearsals — on Instagram.

@alanchangmagic on Instagram

Performances

A couple of recorded acts.

Dreamland Magic Act

SU Mid-Autumn Festival Gala — Magic Show

Magic Apps

Tools I built for performers — bringing sleight of hand into the phone in your pocket.

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ACM Collection

Endless miracles with nothing but your phone

Entertainment · MagiciPhone · Mac · Vision Pro

A digital magic toolkit. Make objects vanish from a photo and reappear in your hand, using advanced on-device image processing. Built in SwiftUI and limited only by the performer's imagination — runs on iPhone, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.

  • Remove & manipulate objects in photos
  • Hand-based appearance effects
  • Advanced image processing
  • No data collection
View on the App Store
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AC-Calculator

An ordinary-looking calculator that forces any number

Entertainment · MagiciPhone · Mac · Vision Pro

A magician's calculator that looks exactly like the stock iOS calculator — but lets you force any number, or the current time, with what I designed as the cleanest forcing method. Perfect for prediction effects that hide in plain sight.

  • Pixel-matches the stock iOS calculator
  • Force any number or the current time
  • Cleanest forcing method
  • No data collection
View on the App Store