Beyond customization: build tools that grow with us | thesephist.com

Hyperlink is attempting to build tools for a new kind of project management!

Think about projects that feel like adventures. Projects where you discover what you're making as you go. Projects that evolve and even generate new projects along the way. Projects that feel like play.

We want to support creative project-making based in emergent discovery, ... See more

Tools encourage default behaviors, they dictate patterns and golden paths. These represent the tool makers’ ideal user experiences. If following along breaks your back, then it’s not because you tried to lift too much, it’s because the tool applied pressure in all the wrong places.

So much of how we build websites and software comes down to how we think. The churn of tools, methods, and abstractions also signify the replacement of ideology. A person must usually think in a way similar to the people who created the tools to successfully use them. It’s not as simple as putting down a screwdriver and picking up a wrench. A perso... See more