Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use. This raises the bar for any group hoping to explore ideas around Tools for thought: you must have not only the capacity to develop the idea conceptually, but also the design and technical capacity to develop prototypes to the point that they can be used as serious tools for serious work. Only at that point can you clearly see your ideas refracted through the system’s use—i.e. Insight through making.| Andyʼs working notes
Powerful enabling environments focus on expert use| Andyʼs working notes
Guo, P. (2021). Ten Million Users and Ten Years Later: Python Tutor’s Design Guidelines for Building Scalable and Sustainable Research Software in Academia. In The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 1235–1251). Association for Computing Machinery| Andyʼs working notes
Great tool-makers are often not great tool-users, and vice-versa| Andyʼs working notes
Pixar’s movies and technology development act as coupled flywheels| Andyʼs working notes
Tool-makers usually lack connection to a serious context of use| Andyʼs working notes
Insight through making| Andyʼs working notes
Authored environments are significantly colored by authors’ motivations| Andyʼs working notes
Powerful enabling environments usually arise as a byproduct of projects pursuing their own intrinsically meaningful purposes| Andyʼs working notes
Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use| Andyʼs working notes
Spaced repetition memory system| Andyʼs working notes
Evergreen notes| Andyʼs working notes
Evergreen notes| Andyʼs working notes
Work with the garage door up| Andyʼs working notes