Thinking about orbs as an interface primitive in AR... Of the various transitions in virtual reality, orbs seem to be one of the most intuitive and provide the most axes of agency. Like portals that you can move about, scale, and position in space.

doi.org/10.1145/334076…

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"

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The shape of learning

Playing with visualizing different ways of structuring classes/learning groups following a conversation with @josegocampo

[design thread] 1/ The basic structure/notation is a group (red) that meets and collaborates over a period of time (blue) to create an artifact (yellow)

An artifact here is "a token of what you have learnt, but also a trail for those who follow in your footsteps" (see:

https://twitter.com/azlenelza/status/1269696513527046145

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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

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https://twitter.com/azlenelza/status/1246612847427112960

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

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