*Tony* yes I think we do and we will get even more aligned in time! I truly respect all work, considerations, the whole iterative and collaborative process of developing TW as a community! And I respect the strict enough principles, that are open minded, but also preventing everything from scattering, and actually being able to manage this complexity! It's truly amazing and again I might not know all things that's been considered or that exist already.
When I am prototyping I am just trying my best to listen for all of you and combine with the way I see software design and visualise the ideas, so they can be reflected upon and iterated again. This is the process of exploration and creativity for the benefit of possible improvements. By no means I am trying to invent something new, in fact I believe innovation is about structuring the smallest existing pieces into something that improves something. Therefore, I hope essentially the most things of this new theme/plugin will be reused from what exist. I also hope when the prototype and the design system develops enough, we will have some collaboratively well thought through design decisions made, I hope there will be some developers and TW experts who will want to make this real and coded. I would also eventually attempt to do it on my own, but I just expect it would take me 20x times longer and harder to do so... But I am a bit of coder myself and I can definitely understand how things work and tweak things. As a designer I am primarily an advocate for the user/human experience and enabling people to achieve outcomes they strive for with minimum effort. Judging from the global adoption of TW (knowing the potential), from the comments of many of us, my personal experiences as a new user and professional expertise in software design – I let myself to make an educated guess – some people groups and their needs are still underserved. The design theory also tells – people have Liquid Expectations <https://www.fjordnet.com/conversations/liquid-expectations/> that influence their experience and adoption of any tool/service. Liquid Expectations means our ever changing perceptions of things, and our tendency to draw parallels between things. In terms of the interfaces, that means, if people perceive Google as an easy to use search engine, Netflix as a new way to get a movie in a second on demand or Uber/Lyft is the way to order a taxi conveniently – they will expect that in every next service of a similar category. Same with information management systems/tools. If people are used to certain way of working, they will expect that also from TiddlyWiki, even if it might be much more powerful and superior to many systems out there. Besides that, there are some general human-computer interface principles that comes from studies in human cognition. Certain mental and physical abilities and tendencies like a cognitive load, mental models, haptics, aesthetics, visual perception (Gestalt Laws), eye physical vision etc. influences the way we use technology. Also it depends on a context... Just a small example, yesterday I bought Quine 2 app to use TW on my iPhone. I was in bed taking notes. And it was so difficult to use TW on my phone. The text sizes were small in most place it hurt my eyes, it was hard to tap on many elements, everything was constantly scrolling I kept loosing track where I am... Yet, being kind of geeky and loving TW I kept going. I think not everyone can ignore the experience and depend directly on the power of the tool. Again, with my input want to advocate for the human experience of using the tool that can support every person in this digital knowledge work and life age. I hope we can all work this out, continuing being open minded, keep developing the legendary TW and make it even more approachable for broader audiences outside tech world!;) I hope one day soon even my dad will use TW to manage his work and life digitally ;D Cheers, Edgaras -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ff09b9c5-0885-4592-b25b-241e19629291%40googlegroups.com.
