Tanuj
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weaving tools for the web, and beyond
Tanuj
Products are easier to reason about when you think of them as functions. They transform an input situation into an output situation.This lets you describe what the product does as a transformation of the user's circumstance instead of a bundle of features.
Ryan Singer • Ryan Singer: Products Are Functions
The name infinite canvas, whether that's a category or component. And it's one that I have some mixed feelings about. Because, on one hand, Mark uses the term multimedia canvas. More commonly, we called Muse a spatial canvas, in kind of 1.0 positioning. And I also like the term open canvas — we actually do use that a bit on our web site, talking... See more
Muse • Infinite canvases with Steve Ruiz // Metamuse podcast episode 59
@softspaceninja Not a criticism of the demo! more a comment on the shortcomings of text as an interface. I want to be able to take some text and squish it to get a summary; smash two together to get some AI-inferred conclusions or list of disagreements. Text today is very opaque to most software
Linustwitter.comHowever, clarity is one of many possible intentions for a website. There are other legitimate states of mind capable of communication—a surprising, memorable, monumental, soothing, shocking, unpredictable, radically boring, bizarre, mind-blowing, very quiet and subtle, and/or amazing website could work. You also need not limit yourself to only one... See more
thecreativeindependent.com • My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
Typical web document: Texts of documents and posts are not necessarily linear: they can be split into sections or structured by columns, color areas and sidebars.
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
happiness and
The best stories are often the trickiest ones. The good and bad things about stories is they're a kind of filter. They take a lot of information, and they leave some of it out, and they keep some of it in. But the thing about this filter, it always leaves the same things in. You're always left with the same few simple stories.
Tyler Cowen • Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
Bimanual, Multi-fidelity InteractionThe user can use his dominant hand to scroll through a main document, while simultaneously using the other hand to flip through a pile of other documents, visualized in 3D space, to find a relevant piece of text. The user can then drag that piece of text into the main document through the more precise touchpad... See more
Jinha Lee • www.leejinha.com
“The bigger part of it is just in finding the right ways of thinking, finding the right representations of abstractions, so people can think thoughts that they couldn’t think before.“The example I like to give is back in the days of Roman numerals, basic multiplication was considered this incredibly technical concept that only official... See more