Hi Adrian > > I'm curious if you're getting any inspiration from these two projects: > > Ward Cunningham's new take on wikis, Smallest Federated Wiki and > http://wardcunningham.github.com
> http://fed.wiki.org > > Yes, I've been tracking Ward's work quite closely. There's some unification of nomenclature already (eg, "story" for a sequence of paragraphs/tiddlers), and some differences (eg SFW's paragraph = TW's tiddler). The centre of gravity of the two projects is different: SFW is focussed on the mechanics of federation, and the UI for understanding federated history. In TW5 I'm exploring the idea of a wiki as a representation transformation engine, and evolving wikitext into an algebra for tiddlers. SFW has a fascinating integration with D3.js which I'm watching with interest. I hope to see some interoperability between the projects over time. > Xiki > http://xiki.org I did see this when it first did the rounds, but it had fallen off my radar. Also somewhat related is this: http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ I'd see both as experiments into the same idea of harnessing the power of a command line interface, and updating it to the GUI and/or web eras. Definitely of great interest to me. For lots of reasons, most of the discussion around UI design is rather oriented towards users who are assumed to be too busy to learn new things, unwilling to invest anything more than cursory attention in the interface that we craft. In ecommerce we visualise prospective buyers falling away at the first sign of anything that they don't understand. So, we design checkout flows to be familiar above all else, to reduce the cognitive load on our users. That's all fair enough, but I'm fascinated by user interfaces that trade a steeper learning curve in return for ultimately being more useful. I believe we can craft user experiences that combine a visceral initial appeal with the progressive disclosure of a small number of concepts that combine in powerful ways. Such interfaces aren't appropriate in all circumstances, but they're much more thrilling to work on. Best wishes Jeremy > > They both look to have some pretty neat ideas that might be worth > emulating. > > Cheers, > Adrian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/-/aMbhLcfOIsUJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
