Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59

Great quote: “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures”. I would add: it’s not just data structures, but information representations that expose those data structures in an intuitive way. Intuitive how? In that the graphical representation and interactive controls provide a transparent interface to the un... See more

Some companies go all in on the ecstasy - ‘here’s our magical vision for the future’. Others commit to the laundry - look at our rich feature-set isn’t it amazing?”

What would happen if we stopped treating the web like a blank canvas to paint on, and instead like a material to build with?

These projects, Victor says, are just “nibbles around the edges” of his larger obsession: how the media in which we choose to represent our ideas shape (and too often, limit) what ideas we can have. “We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says. “With the invention of the printi... See more