Process story! , , and I finished this endless report on our early math work (khanacademy.org/research/repor), but convinced us we had the story all wrong. Despair, then: we printed it, cut it up, rearranged it, scribbled all over it, and taped it together.
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It would have been so miserable to revise this thing via, say, comments on a Google doc. We had to spread out, use our bodies, point at things, draw arrows, etc.
I had feared the revision would drag on for weeks but in the end it took just a few hours.
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The struggle is real! We've been trying to recruit collaborators for, like, five months. We could find people quickly if we were open to remote team members, but for a team which does this kind of creative exercise regularly, I don't know how to make it work. Very frustrating.
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just published this about remote design at : automattic.design/2018/03/07/rem ... Looks like they use mural.co to collaborate
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A bunch of these little images are actually meant to be animated gifs—being able to see the motion in context would already be an improvement. Even better would be if we didn't have to "translate" our taped-together sheet back into the bit-land.
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(it's not; this is a parallel implementation of related ideas by , different in important ways—i.e. it's not self-hosting—buuuuut, if you want iframes on your floor…)
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This connects to one of the core Dynamicland ideas—if you can't see it, neither can the computer. It's about breaking down the wall between creator and consumer; the code is the object is the code. The markers are a distracting temporary solution to implementation practicalities.
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If you want to play with paper programs without setting it up ping - he set it up in our office last month…
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this tweet came at the right time, i copied you to rework a blog post
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Yayayay