Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59

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

I think if you're working on some form of consumer media product ask yourself what kind of storytelling or communication you are looking to unlock? Play with a variety of constraints and see what behaviors it unlocks or incentivizes. Add different source material components across the creation cycle to see how it changes things like propensity to c... See more

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