wrote up some thoughts on how our interfaces are getting flatter, and how we might design with 💃 our bodies 🤸 in mind.

🧶 went ham on little yarn worlds

wattenberger.com/thoughts/our...

this is what it looks like when you allocate your time to

vibes
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actual content
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making this is so fun I've been doing it instead of watching Severance

sharing my silly workflow to create transitions between images:

1. throw images in an auto layout in @figma.com
2. clip a new image with the bottom and top of the two images
3. throw in Midjourney edit and generate some new images
4. paste that new image back into Figma and clip it

cute little responsive felt worlds 😍

cooking up a new blog post. I'm loving these little felt worlds and baking little transitions between them.

historical events are all jumbled up in my mind, on their own timeline. Wouldn't it be great to have a "World Time Explorer" that helps stitch together those timelines?

buggy and probably better on a map, but throwing this idea into a ui to start playing around

sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently

the future is...
✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI
✨ content at different levels of abstraction
✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls

😍 love seeing the charts I worked on with @puddingviz.bsky.social on Google Trends

soo the Perplexity API is good and cheap-ish?! ($.20 per 1M tokens)

🐟 some musings on how we might use LLMs
🐠 to interact with text at multiple levels of abstraction
🐡 inspired by the fish-eye lens

is it possible to have too much fun making a blog post? 🤔

I split up "related topics" into four categories:

✨ related people
✨ similar topics (siblings)
✨ more general categories (parents)
✨ more specific topics (children)

this way, you can "zoom out" in the NorthWest direction and "zoom in" to the SE. Or side-step SW and NE.

heyooo just won my own game of "find my way from Fish-Eye Lens to Kangaroo" 🦘

I made the transitions feel like the new topic is "pushing" the old one out and added inline links and...

I'm finding this strangely addictive!

making more demos for my "fish eye lens" blog post

I'm starting to really enjoy learning from this wiki example 😍

stop reading my mind, Jake!

I think you're right, though. The far-away shapes should move towards the mouse instead of bluring

this feels a tiny bit better...

I'm playing with a fish-eye effect

You have one "fovea" and the rest of the world (or writing) gradually falls off as it's farther away from your area of focus

So here, the adjacent paragraphs are summarized (zoom -1) as well as the remaining text (zoom -2).

Give me gratuitous animation ideas! 🙆‍♀️