And no, not about making the cut.
I’m worried about what one of the judges said about my idea - the thought that users “prefer” grids, outlines, basically - organized methods of controlling information. (He was contrasting this with my idea of being able to put cards in piles and scatter them around.)
First of all - there is not one creative person I know of that uses the “pre-organization” of data. By that - they don’t use something that is pre-structured and then find where they should put their ideas into. Ideas are scattered by nature. The ability to move them around dynamically is the step BEFORE organizing them. I know people work in different ways, but Savant Carde is not for Venn diagram/sequential outline-addicts.
Along with this—Every day I have to “de-program” university students from the 12+ years of structured, systemitized, homogenized crap they have learned in school. We make everyone fit everything into lines, grids, categories. That may be good for some, but for artists, musicians, writers, and I dare say, software developers—that is not the way to access your creativity.
My idea was never about a “real” application, it was about breaking us away from thinking so sequentially, so “alike.” More on this after the voting, along with other true confessions.
Robert
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