The problem is that when the software is really really really good, you just don't even notice it anymore.
I see YOU triket. I see YOU p5js.
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It's technically true, but I don't know if they deserve to be implicitly equated, UX wise...
The original trinket is gone and educators have had to flee to other servers... P5js is still up and running strong.
Invisible software that becomes a lightweight frame that supports human creativity and achievement.
Silent, unobtrusive, yet always helping exactly when needed and no more than that.
It really can be like that. And you could be a part of making that kind of software too... oh... were things ... different.
*continues to cry at the bar*
as always having a normal one and NOT considering trying to write my own educational server software... one designed around student run permissions groups... free of ads and built to be modified and grow through student template additions... not thinking about it. Not one bit.
@futurebird This person I follow, @alcinnz , does an absolutely genius thing, in my opinion: he writes "hypotheticals". Things like "If I was designing a smartphone today, what would it look like?". This way he:
- talks about what is important to him, without spending time for "boilerplate"
- builds a community
- has time to explore what is already available, talk about what is good/bad about it.
- gets feedback (and moral support)
- spends reasonable amounts of time per project (instead of "getting a second unpaid job"), has a chance to later choose what subjects to go deeper in.
He has accumulated a whole collection of these on his website/blog: https://adrian.geek.nz/from-scratch/
@futurebird I worked on Promethean's ClassFlow.com. When it worked well, it felt magical. Too good to be real.
@futurebird All true.