Story of Roomy

Roomy & Designing for Communities | Fish | Offprint

My personal experiences working with the team at Roomy, and how I feel after the last 5 months helping with the project.

Tending Your Software Garden

Software: do you write it like a book, grow it like a plant, accrete it like a pearl, or construct it like a building? As Steve McConnell notes in Code Complete 2, there’s no shortage of software development metaphors: A confusing abundance of metaphors has grown up around software

Learning To Write Software… Is Hard - Zicklag's Leaflets

But it's also good — Musings about the last year of Roomy development, and more.

Roomy

Cozy community spaces; cultivate your digital gardens.

Pages · Issue #80 · muni-town/roomy

The Roomy app experience is one of content gardening: https://blog.muni.town/chatty-community-gardens/ To expand Roomy beyond the chatroom we are adding Pages, which are functionally a room in the ...

Software You Can Love

celebrate the art of creating software for humans

Screen As Room: An Architectural Perspective on User Interfaces — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer

With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.

Screen As Room: An Architectural Perspective on User Interfaces — Christoph Locher · Interaction Designer

With the use of video games as social spaces being observed for several years and the increased focus put on virtual social spaces due to the scarceness of physical social spaces in the last months, the concept of “spatial interfaces” is once again at the center of discussions. I want to add an alternative perspective to this, looking at the properties of physical spaces as metaphors, rather than models, for interfaces and exploring seven of them in more detail.

Muse: Designing a studio for ideas

Physical workspaces inspire a fast, fluid digital tool for creative thinking.

FLORA — Your Creative Environment

Generative workflows that scale

Self Hosting In Roomy

An ultra quick outline of what self-hosting Roomy looks like.

Malleable software

computing environments where anyone can mold their tools to their own unique needs.That definition is by [[Geoffrey Litt]], who wrote [[Malleable software ...