hiii! i design creative tools for embodied expression, world-building, and meaning-making. i daydream about systems, metaphors, simulations, and ways to visualize them. rn i'm building a new product at Figma.
u can find me via email, mastodon, bluesky, & twitter. not super active on them but my dms are open!
— aosheng ^.^
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We aimed to build a collabotative medium that evolves beyond personal computing paradigms—like syncing interaction states across all building blocks, so that people can share one slate of attention with each other.
The space is permissive-by-default to foster a sense of trust and intimacy, just like a studio where makers sit together with no barriers between; cursors can be a rich presence that indicates people’s location and focus.
By centering the focal point from viewports to people’s cursors, we can contextualize cursor movement as a digital body language. It helps us build shared understanding through unspoken context, i.e. how close people are to the exit.
Our social presence is more nuanced than online/offline. Our spaces should retain such nuance as we transition between the gradient of presence: we can reach into our backpack to look for things during a conversation without leaving the space.
Viewport indicators and cursors gently inform where people are in peripheral vision. The subtle way-finding cues and digital gestures like pinging add rich context and playful expressions to the space.
Modeless, multi-modal input
Spatial backlinks
Web as local archive
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