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Independent interface design researcher. Writing a book on designing novel interactive visual abstractions (novel ui concepts) for new ways of learning, teaching, explaining, discovering, inventing things online

Same handle name at bluesky

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I want to find people who are into the intersection of Interface Design, Information Design, Graphic Design, Science Communication and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of math, Philosophy of Education.

Basically designers and developers who are into creating visualizations, infographic of the scientific thinking process, theories for pedagogical purposes.

Data visualization and interface design for science communication

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Collaborating with public housing developers to incorporate makerspaces into new affordable public/social or shared housing projects

Incorporating makerspaces into apartment buildings, bringing makerspaces to public housing development

"Makerhoods combines affordable living, shared spaces for light manufacturing, and business support to help people start and grow profitable businesses that create prosperity, secure their futures and create inter-generational wealth"

https://www.makerhoods.com/about-makerhoods

The Makerhoods model addresses these issues in a holistic way by providing housing, commercial space, and business development services in a supportive community all at one monthly cost. Housing The need for affordable housing continues to increase. By including mixed-income housing into the Makerhoods model: - The daily commute is eliminated. - Child care logistics are simplified. - Business owners and residents develop a sense of ownership and participation in the community. - Business owners have access to new and expanded social networks.

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Imagine combining the above with this initiative

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/111975198560728175

A federation of worker cooperatives in a neighbourhood that collectively manage a common investment fund

"Evergreen's Fund for Employee Ownership is a groundbreaking approach to use mission-driven capital to acquire small & medium-sized businesses, convert them to employee ownership & provide long-term support"

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Wobbly Economics – Part I : Why Frederic S Lee was the greatest economist you’ve never heard of by John Michael Colón

From StrangeMatters.Coop, a 100% worker-owned & managed cooperative magazine

https://strangematters.coop/frederic-s-lee-profile-part-one/

In his final work, completed Microeconomic Theory: A Heterodox Approach, this culminated in his redefinition of economics as the science of the social provisioning process

Microeconomic Theory : A Heterodox Approach By Frederic S. Lee, Tae-Hee Jo

https://www.routledge.com/Microeconomic-Theory-A-Heterodox-Approach/Lee-Jo/p/book/9780367356842

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"In the twenty-first century, realizing that economics is totally fucked is a rite of passage for every serious intellectual. It’s more or less a precondition for doing anything actually interesting in the social sciences"

"When you really start digging on the web about this stuff, it will quickly become clear that—rather confusingly—some of the most violent critics of the economic profession are… other economists"

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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers by Maggie Appleton

The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it

https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software

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"How could an American getting paid six figures in Mountain View understand how to identify problems and design solutions for a homemaker in Tokyo, a street seller in Turkey, or a doctor in Tunisia?"

"For the most part, they don’t. Or if they try, they do it badly"

"Anything beyond that is what we call the long tail of user needs. These are things only a few people need, but there's a nearly infinite amount of them"

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“People need not only to obtain things, they need above all the freedom to make things among which they can live, to give shape to them according to their own tastes, and to put them to use in caring for and about others” Tools for Conviviality —Ivan Illich

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Constructing Embodied Algebra by Sketching by Nazmus Saquib, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Li-yi Wei, Gloria Mark, Deb Roy

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445460

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6T6odSw2wHs

Basically ms paint for algebra

I came across this paper googling "feynman" "kill math" "bret victor"😅

Their innovation isn't really the drawing, illustrating part but rather the linking, dragging and dropping of each illustration which creates an algebraic expression

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Nazmus Saquib - Embodied Math
https://nsaquib.org/blog/embodied-math

"My PhD dissertation creates a novel framework for Computer Algebra in which sketching & embodied interactions are main activities to generate & work with symbolic abstractions"

"My usual aim is to find the minimum number of primitives, brushes, and metaphors that capture different fields of mathematics. I assume sketching is the main activity by which embodied math can be done on top of the world (in mixed reality)"

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Augmented Physics: A Machine Learning-Powered Tool for Creating Interactive Physics Simulations from Static Diagrams by Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Jarin Thundathil, Nandi Zhang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki

https://arxiv.org/html/2405.18614v1

Bret Victor's explorable explanations via AR 😍

Came across this googling "science education" "multimodal" "bret victor"

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Think if 3blue1Brown's Manim is used for making those explorable explanations for the textbook

Manim is an engine for precise programmatic animations, designed for creating explanatory math videos by the author of 3Blue1Brown (Grant Sanderson)

GitHub - 3b1b/manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos
https://github.com/3b1b/manim

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Oh this is like miro and notion (a less bloated one) in one

"Scrintal is an easy-to-use digital canvas to convert your creative ideas into structured knowledge"

Direct manipulation arrow interaction for linking notes instead of markdown for backlinking
https://scrintal.com

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@smallcircles

I love the open source ones yes but I also don't mind indie devs trying to make a living :D

For me anything other than FAANG-ish companies is fine

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@smallcircles Agreed!

That's why I love the initiative of https://opencollective.com/

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@smallcircles >but the making of it is.. umm, in need of reform.

Yes! What do you think about worker cooperatives (basically a model of an organization where employees are member owners, partners sharing profit apart from income and having equal say over decisions)

There's some tech coops https://tech-coops.xyz/

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@smallcircles >. Imho this fragmentation is inhibiting to large extent the empowerment of these innovative approaches.

Oh how so?

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@smallcircles

Maybe we need something like this

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/111975198560728175

A federation of Worker Cooperatives

There is an example of that in tech https://www.enspiral.com/

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@smallcircles Ah

Have you come across Cecosesola?

Cecosesola is a federation of 60 different worker-consumer cooperatives in Venezuela all run via horizontal management, not only are each of the cooperatives horizontal but even the federation is horizontal

There's a video on it by
my fav anarchist youtuber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xfE6Nsuaf50

Also an interview with one of its members https://patternsofcommoning.org/we-are-one-big-conversation-commoning-in-venezuela/

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Manifesto on the Teaching of Mathematics – Intellectual Mathematics by Viktor Blåsjö @viktorblasjo
https://intellectualmathematics.com/manifesto/

Intellectual Mathematics is written for the intellectual fulfilment of the reader.

Gosh this was the most relatable rant of math education, specifically math textbooks I've come across

He maintains a blog, has a podcast and also has written free textbook on calculus (that follows his unique pedagogy) and history of math

https://intellectualmathematics.com

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So interesting, segmenting video via mindmaps instead of timestamps
https://akomaps.com/

"Ako Maps is a suite of learning tools that links visual diagrams to video lessons.. Ako Maps can be 'linked' to lessons. Browse the map, then click a topic to navigate directly to that topic in the video"

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@hipsterelectron this community seems to be totally your jam Danny, check them out

Danny is a dear friend who was talking to me recently about modularity in software, I think he would really also love these principles of your community

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OMG Khinsen is a genius

This can be so useful for pedagogical purpose as well.

Imagine an open source project that uses these tools to create interactive documentation, exercises which guide you to recreate the whole project from scratch for design, dev students.

Every part of it serving as a pedagogical tool for people to deconstruct, tweak and reconstruct it

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So entire process right from research to conceptualisation & making of UI metaphors, widgets, affordances, patterns, taxonomies, navigation schemas and establishing their connection with social practices done completely in the open with documentation that’s also very modular.

So that anyone is able to recreate the application from scratch on their own and also be able to analyse and write their reflections on it.

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@smallcircles @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam @khinsen @tastapod

I will check that out, thanks!

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@smallcircles @stephenpa @uclab_potsdam @khinsen

I think every integrated development environment or scientific visualization, CAD, CAE engineering simulation software (for example ansys and comsol multiphysics) can actually serve as interactive textbooks.

Like they can serve as a model for teaching concepts instead of linear lectures and dry textbooks

This is going back to Bret's ideas :D https://worrydream.com/KillMath/

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