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Azlen

@azlenelza

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Computer history by Balenciaga

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Azlen

@azlenelza

4 years

"parallel pages, visibly connected"

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@azlenelza

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All videos are actually three-dimensional objects Usually what we see is just a small slice along the axis of time, but what if we could tangibly interact with the geometry of this space?

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@azlenelza

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Thinking outside the text-box ✨

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@azlenelza

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okay so hear me out

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What if text was more expressive? A lot of vocal nuance is lost in text. Emphasis, intonation, stretching of vowels— what if you could bring back bits of this playfulness into the digital medium?

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@azlenelza

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What if text squished as you scroll—staying visible rather than lurking off-screen? Not only does this let you gauge the "page-thickness" of how far you've read, but also lets you see a birds-eye view of highlights and/or search terms throughout the entire text

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@azlenelza

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Imagining if text editors felt more like video editors The process of video editing involves reviewing footage and finding the snippets you want to use, the same process would be useful in writing to review notes and coalesce past ideas into new drafts and essays

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@azlenelza

2 years

Revealing poems within text

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@azlenelza

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branching interface for writing a tighter creative feedback loop guided by a language model to weave through the possibility space of text

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@azlenelza

4 years

What would a text editor look like without a keyboard? A while back I tried designing some interactions around this concept—combining voice input, GPT-3, and various swipe and touch gestures centered around central metaphors of "thread" and "strands" 1/4 🧵

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@azlenelza

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What does it look like to switch between different representations of data? Made a quick little drawing/spreadsheet experiment tonight as a proof-of-concept for some future projects

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What kind of interface could enable people to collectively learn and build knowledge as a group? I'm trying to imagine a system that goes beyond forums and linear discussion threads, with highlights and summarization to distill key ideas [design thread]

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@azlenelza

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What if web browsers were collaborative by default? If we could "invite" friends into our browsing session, explore a rabbithole, watch a video, unlock these magical moments where all the experiences we can have on the internet suddenly become multiplayer

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@azlenelza

1 year

Making some fun dice-rolling interactions

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@azlenelza

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I want to build a game engine for software

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@azlenelza

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Excited to finally release —a more fun way to talk and spend time with friends over the internet

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@azlenelza

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What if you could explore higher-dimensional spaces in two dimensions? Made a little starfish color picker where you can drag along three dimensions of hue, saturation, and lightness

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@azlenelza

3 years

Generating visual mnemonics to learn Chinese characters with the help of neural networks By graphically representing its own meaning, my hypothesis is that this will create more associations between meaning and shape— making each character easier to remember

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@azlenelza

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It may not be the most practical representation, but understanding the medium of video in this way brings about interesting questions, like what if you sliced the video along an angle? or along a non-flat surface?

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@azlenelza

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@MatthewWSiu I've long dreamed of a browser that rejects the whole rendering pipeline and simply treats the internet as a source of data to be shaped and explored in new ways

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@azlenelza

4 years

Exploring different methods of navigation for my public-facing @RoamResearch database Three different zoom levels? if you zoom out far enough you start to see the whole network of connections in the graph 1/4

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@azlenelza

4 years

The ability to zoom out and explore interconnections, whether within your own blog or external links to other sources This is my dream-blog's superpower

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@azlenelza

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Launching new "Learn with me" page on my website! Instead of going back to university this semester, I will be experimenting with running small learning groups around specific topics. Open for anyone to join. Check it out at: 🎓

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@azlenelza

3 years

The irony of explorative interfaces is that they have, from a design perspective, been largely unexplored There are so many possibilities beyond the simple search box 🍭

Marcin Ignac

@marcinignac

3 years

Search is the biggest scam in UI now. It almost never works. How do you find stuff that is not in your top 10 results of mini snippets? We need more explorative interfaces taking advantage of context and association.

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Azlen

@azlenelza

4 years

Experimenting with something new... Anyone interested in a JS plugin for Roam which lets you drag, reorder, and snap together open panels?

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@azlenelza

4 years

My roam theme Zenith is now available! Conor made a great video showing how to switch themes by creating a [[roam/css]] page Oh and if that's not enough, I also made a couple colour/font variations: "Cosmonaut" and "Yggdrasil"

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Custom theming for your @RoamResearch graph is now live Here's a video showing how to customize the CSS of your Roam, how to find the beautiful themes from the #roamcult , and paypal links to show support!

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@azlenelza

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Crazy idea: what if there was a podcast without a host where the person interviewed becomes the host of the next episode It ends when the person who started the pod-chain gets invited to talk on the podcast

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@azlenelza

4 years

How do you watch a digital garden grow? Playing around with the idea of a newsletter where you can subscribe to individual notes or topics and receive a weekly/monthly newsletter of personalized updates

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@azlenelza

4 years

Launching new website! Experimenting with new ways to navigate a network of notes and thinking with the garage door up

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@azlenelza

1 year

@mlstotts @pmarca Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson, Alan Turing, Grace Hopper, Alan Kay, Engelbart, Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Marc Andreessen, Bill Gates, and Tim Berners-Lee

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@azlenelza

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Curious to create a digital space that puts creation over consumption A kind of community cybergarden where you go to grow new ideas together— share and participate in prompts and creative challenges. No likes, no infinite feeds, just creativity and serendipitous encounters

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@azlenelza

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The world's first personal archnemesis I don't want AI to be my friend—I want it to challenge my every move, attack my ideas, question my very existence, so that I may, in the end, grow as a person

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@azlenelza

4 years

Since @Conaw is calling for Roam themes, just thought I'd share my own theme designed to match my notes website

Roam Research

@RoamResearch

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Many of the custom themes that have been written by the #roamcult are prettier than our default design There. We said it. But most of our users don't know how to find these themes or set them up. SO - we're gonna make it WAY easier to use themes and support theme creators

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@azlenelza

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What if when you bought a textbook, it was more like a jigsaw puzzle You open it up and out pours a thousand ideas and concepts, then it is your task to figure out which pieces connect and build up ideas until you see the bigger picture

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@azlenelza

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Launching new website! Experimenting with new ways to navigate a network of notes and thinking with the garage door up

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@azlenelza

4 years

The initial prototype takes design inspiration from @andy_matuschak 's working notes () as a launchpad for experimenting with new methods of navigation. 2/4

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@azlenelza

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Imagining a color picker for the colorblind If around 400,000,000 people in the world (~5% of the population) have some form of color blindness, why aren’t more things around us designed to accommodate?

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@azlenelza

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Announcing Interhackt, a hackathon to push the boundaries of interaction design The event is open to anyone whether you are a designer, developer, or just enjoy dreaming up new kinds of interfaces Join us at 🚀

Interhackt

Interhackt is a week-long online design hackathon to explore the future of interfaces and interaction

interhackt.space

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@azlenelza

4 years

The shape of learning Playing with visualizing different ways of structuring classes/learning groups following a conversation with @josegocampo [design thread]

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@azlenelza

2 years

Thinking about orbs as an interface primitive in AR...

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@azlenelza

2 years

Made a little geospatial search engine with @MatthewWSiu Search for a term and explore the globe to find resources specific to cities around the world

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@azlenelza

4 years

Over just 24 hours last weekend @jborichevskiy and I built a spatial audio chat called Cozyroom that makes online meetings feel a bit closer to hanging out in a physical space Check out our prototype at

Pioneer

@pioneerdotapp

4 years

3/ Third place goes to @azlenelza and @jborichevskiy for Cozyroom -- spatial peer-to-peer audio chat.

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@azlenelza

3 years

What if browsers had transitions between page loads? This circular wipe transition makes wikipedia feel even more like falling down a rabbit hole!

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@azlenelza

4 years

Thought molecules

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@azlenelza

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For those curious, these were the inspirations for this experiment: knowing our position within a book by the thickness of pages to either side, and also the way the world curves back in animal crossing to reveal more of the world than you would've seen otherwise

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@azlenelza

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Imagine if you could search through concept-space

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@azlenelza

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Often think back to this—Ted Nelson coined hypertext and hyperfilm in the same sentence

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@azlenelza

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Quick update to Roam users using my Zenith theme You may have noticed the CSS breaking with the latest update—I have since fixed these issues, so you can now rearrange and pin pages in Zenith! 🎉

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@azlenelza

3 years

Perhaps spatial typography can be even more expressive, much like our voice, but modulating the visual intonation of our words to open up a wider range of creative expression

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@azlenelza

3 years

Thinking outside the text-box ✨

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@azlenelza

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Inspired by @visakanv May 2020: - Released - Shared 5 idea-sketches - 250 → 900 followers 🥰 - Cozyroom progress (releasing soon!) - Board game nights in Figma - Many chats with amazing internet friends + Some secret projects 😉

Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

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May 2020: - working on my ebooks - did an I.I. salon - teaching myself to draw, finished my 1st sketchbook, started an art instagram - discovered Ollybot's tool to make a navigable visual of my thread-web - been playing Streets of Rage 4 - public roam:

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@azlenelza

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Bouldering gyms, in my mind, are fantastic learning environments: a mix of skill levels, problem-based learning, a friendly atmosphere where people chat about how to solve different challenges What if classrooms were more like this?

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@azlenelza

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How can we break out of traditional video formats? Putting together a thread of questions that I'm planning to explore over the next few days [question thread]

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@azlenelza

4 years

Videos haven't evolved to be more interactive. In 2020, why can't I select text within a video? or follow in-video links or citations?

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@azlenelza

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Been thinking about making a little idea-capturing tool for my phone where notes, images, audio-snippets, etc. are threaded together in a line Feel like it'd make notes feel more like an exploration, like a little comic, and to share those threads of thought with friends

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@azlenelza

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Some classroom design explorations: Trying to imagine how classroom design might change if we broke away from the teacher-led paradigm towards, perhaps, a teacher-curated one—allowing individual student exploration, with the teacher as a mentor to guide their journeys

Azlen

@azlenelza

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Bouldering gyms, in my mind, are fantastic learning environments: a mix of skill levels, problem-based learning, a friendly atmosphere where people chat about how to solve different challenges What if classrooms were more like this?

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@azlenelza

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What makes something feel place-like on the internet?

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@azlenelza

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I propose the 7XX error block to be reserved for human error

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@azlenelza

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I built Cozyroom because I was tired of Zoom and wanted to design friendlier ways to talk to people online We just launched on Product Hunt—come vote and spread the word, I really want it to be useful to people!

CozyRoom - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

A fun way to talk and spend time with friends over the Internet

www.producthunt.com

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@azlenelza

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Design is just applied science fiction

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@azlenelza

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Guess what? Now you can import my Roam themes with just one line of code AND be subscribed to all future changes and fixes Also new variable to control --page-width if you prefer wiide pages ↔️

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@azlenelza

2 years

Constraints open up all kinds of interesting unexplored design-spaces— like what if you put buttons and data floating around space-conforming blobs?

Juhani Halkomäki

@JuhaniHalkomaki

2 years

#creativecoding #genartclub I've been dreaming of a blob like this for a long time. I finally figured out a way to create one 🥳

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@azlenelza

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@pranavpramod I call these types of interactions "anticipants", and they're much more common in games than in software Visual trajectories, object placement, expected outcomes of battles, plenty of games give feedback for the player to anticipate the result of an action

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@azlenelza

4 years

🚧 Coming soon 🚧

Azlen

@azlenelza

4 years

Over just 24 hours last weekend @jborichevskiy and I built a spatial audio chat called Cozyroom that makes online meetings feel a bit closer to hanging out in a physical space Check out our prototype at

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@azlenelza

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@thepericulum You'd better believe i—wait, *checks code* nope it uses something called "javascript"

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@azlenelza

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Thinking today about social internet spaces What if voice chat was spatial and you could only hear people nearby? Having some fun with this idea

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@azlenelza

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Something I've personally found compelling about @midjourney is that the synthesized images are sufficiently coherent to serve as design inspiration Here I'm exploring scenes from imaginary cities and analysing any intriguing design elements

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@azlenelza

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Imagine if our digital tools had levels of intensity If you can grab to drag-and-drop objects, what if you could power-grab to drag interface elements around? or use the circular saw to simply cut your desktop in half into two separate workspaces...

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@azlenelza

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Spatial conversational interface from 1999, "Chat Circles"

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@azlenelza

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The ability to zoom out and explore interconnections, whether within your own blog or external links to other sources This is my dream-blog's superpower

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

@vgr

5 years

How would you reimagine blogs around graph databases as the foundation? (Roam, Notion, Gatsby all seem to have blog like functionality in their sights but it feels like a stepchild use case relative to their core use cases of notes, wikis, collaboration, static pages)

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@azlenelza

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The pointer in Cozyroom is delightful because it has no specific purpose but allows you to point, poke, spin, dance, and express yourself in the space The interaction is interesting because it could enable all kinds of different types of pointers in the future [design thread]

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@azlenelza

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Create tools that allow people to create experiences

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@azlenelza

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@Conaw And now with collapsible columns—the real question is what can CSS *not* do?

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@azlenelza

3 years

It may not look like much yet but this demo starts to tie together a lot of threads I've been exploring over the past few months from both a programming and end-user perspective Flowers are just the beginning 🌱

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@azlenelza

3 years

Tending to my digital garden

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@azlenelza

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Silly idea but what if instead of moving your cursor you move your screen?

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@azlenelza

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Added a little theme-picker to my website

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@azlenelza

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Imagine: drag to select text, pinch to summarize, vertical unpinch to generate alternatives, *inspiration*, record new sentence to replace the old one And voilà, you've explored multiple directions on the landscape of meaning and rewrote a sentence in just a few moments 4/4 🧵

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@azlenelza

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A Tale of Two Static Site Generators⁠—On Thursday 5pm PT (8pm ET), I'll be doing a tour my personal websites: one that pulls from @NotionHQ , and the other that pulls from @RoamResearch RSVP here: I'll talk design, code, past (and future!) of my sites

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@azlenelza

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Imagine if cursors could talk 🤔

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@azlenelza

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Any video call software with collaborative outlines? Bring ideas to share, rearrange, and allocate time to different discussion topics. Even better if there's a way to write time-stamped notes throughout the conversation.

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@azlenelza

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This is fantastic, a browser that captures your trail of explorations is a dream for any rabbit hole of research I wonder though—using this as a primary browser, what would happen to the 50+ tabs I have open?

Szymon Kaliski

@szymon_k

4 years

💻I've been working on this research browser thing with multi-pane browsing, tree-like history, and persisted "trails" works on any website, but so far I've been using it mostly on wikipedia rabbit holes

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@azlenelza

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Instead of a floppy disk, what if we reframed the idea of "saving" into "freezing" or taking a snapshot of the current state of a document to come back to at a later point? That way it becomes less about storage, and more about conciously creating landmarks and iterations

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@azlenelza

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I'm curious, internet friends: roughly how many ideas or projects do you have that you'd be interested in collaborating on if you found someone passionate to jam with? But like, you're unlikely to pursue otherwise.

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@azlenelza

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By using pinch/zoom gestures you can quickly interact with a piece of text by elaborating, summarizing, or generating alternate phrasings of a sentence (which I call strands) 2/4 🧵

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@azlenelza

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Materials and tools in the real world exist independently However, in digital space our materials (our data) and tools (interactions) are increasingly inseparable, unified into a single concept we call "apps"

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@azlenelza

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@RobertHaisfield @OlliTiainen @Conaw @maskys_ @RoamResearch @wandcrafting @dvargas92495 @RoamBounties @Mappletons

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@azlenelza

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Okay here goes. Reply with any topic you want to learn and I'll come up with a not-so-boring way to start learning it 1 reply = 1 exercise / micro-curriculum

Azlen

@azlenelza

3 years

Frustrated that so many fascinating things are taught in such dull and tedious ways Learning should spark creativity and curiosity — not crush it under boredom and a checklist of learning outcomes!

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@azlenelza

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Making animation spatial instead of temporal? This is really fun to play around with and opens up lots of interesting visual possibilities!

alex ✨🍂

@SomeHats

2 years

when yr not using a drawing (or u haven't added it to yr animation yet) it just hangs out at the bottom of the screen

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@azlenelza

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Made a precision D6 @FolkComputer It's kinda like a knob, but also a die, so you can roll any number between 0 - 6, like 4.31 or 2.76!

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@azlenelza

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A luxury-software business would actually incentivize and fund research into making personalized, powerful software as fast as possible You develop and experiment with this technology in-house by making custom-tailored software for wealthy individuals, then open the tech to all

Azlen

@azlenelza

3 years

@pketh If people are more than willing to spend $500 on Roam believer plans, I wonder if there's a market in the $5K - $500K+ range for extremely custom, personalized, luxury software?

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@azlenelza

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Brilliant work of interaction design by @aoshengran in imagining future tools for thought. He asks an important question of our digital tools: "is playfulness possible?"

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@azlenelza

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Digital expressivity

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Videos haven't evolved to be more interactive. In 2020, why can't I select text within a video? or follow in-video links or citations?

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Tending to my digital garden

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@azlenelza

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Inventing new error codes to account for human follies—like my own habit of linking to pages that don't yet exist

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@azlenelza

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I like metaphor there of "popping off the stack": here, key ideas are highlighted and become their own mini-discussions—not as a response but to refine and delve deeper into a concept After this middle layer of refinement, these key concepts feed into a collaborative document

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@RobertHaisfield @OlliTiainen @Conaw @maskys_ @RoamResearch @wandcrafting @dvargas92495 @RoamBounties @Mappletons

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@azlenelza

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Constraint-based layouts, malleable interfaces, axes of interaction, with data living in a graph and rendered using my own reactive DOM framework that I can build on top of Small steps towards abstractions that enable us to create entirely new kinds of interfaces and interaction

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@Conaw And y'know, the built-in browser zoom works alright

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@azlenelza

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June 2020: - Recreated Xanadu-style links in Roam - Custom Roam themes - 900 → 3300 followers 🤯 - Website tour of my static site generators - Designed curriculum for online learning group - Joined @RoamResearch - Oh and released Cozyroom!

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Nothing fancy, but even very basic zoom functionality opens up an entirely new dimension of navigability Just being able to stand back and see these pages side-by-side is already incredibly useful 3/4

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@azlenelza

4 years

@Conaw Graph overview just got a whole lot better 😎

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@azlenelza

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Like, imagine a button that changes shape depending on where your mouse is within it...

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@azlenelza

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In the real world we can rotate objects to get a sense of what they look like at different angles How do you rotate data? We need more flexible representations to be able to explore / understand from different directions

Azlen

@azlenelza

4 years

Alternate views on website for Bjarke Ingels Group

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