Our Writing
Our Writing
We publish longform essays and shorter articles with the findings of our research and prototypes. Some of these call for focus on a precise facet of software, like reducing next-frame latency or enabling creative privacy. Others reach widely across the industry, calling for a fundamental shift in how computers are created and used. You'll find them here listed in reverse chronological order, tagged with relevant research themes.
An exploration of how live data and computation can gradually enrich
informal travel plans.
[Essay]2023
In Upwelling, we design an editing experience that gives authors
creative privacy while still ensuring every change can be accounted for.
[Essay]2023
An examination of how a pen-based interface could be an alternative
approach to solving logic problems with an SMT solver.
[Essay]2023
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like
spreadsheets?
[Essay]2022
Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications.
[Essay]2022
Uniting the directness of pen & paper with the dynamism of software.
[Essay]2022
Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches.
We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
[Essay]2021
A design experiment in digital identity that excludes the problem of
users misrepresenting themselves by reconsidering digital introductions.
[Essay]2021
Changing schemas in distributed software is hard. Could adopting
bidirectional lenses help?
[Essay]2020
Taking peer-to-peer beyond research prototypes, and working towards
commercial-grade P2P collaboration software.
[Essay]2020
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain
ownership of their data.
[Essay]2019
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.
An early exploration of using CRDTs to enrich a creative application.
Cards and inking on a freeform canvas for the two-step creative process.
What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.