Snaptrude, Qonic, Arkio, Arcol, and a few others, are all fairly recent entries of Modeling/Design Platforms. THey all have different pros/cons, but so far (this is solely my opinion) what i see/hear is grandiose visions for the future, that then eventually turns in to "well for now we are focusing on the front end design of a project, while we... See more

First, by focusing on the user, UCD has a tendency to obscure the experiences of other participants in the systems we design — those who aren’t end users, per se, but who interact with or are affected by the system.

Today, there is next to no standardization between digital creative tool files. While there are sometimes ways to convert one tool's file type to another, the process is tedious at best, unusable at worst. The lack of interoperability¹³ between creative tools means that all work created within a tool is confined to the limitations of that tool... See more

Most software entangles the abstract functionality of the application with the interface that presents it to the user. For example, in Google Maps, users can search for a route between two points, but neither the resulting route nor the process of computing that route can be separated from the visual interface.

As a result, many compositional tasks

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