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Create. Curate. Iterate.
// Thinkable Desktop Studio
A modular tangible thinking space for creative work. Work on ideas without distraction, stay focused and in creative flow.
// How it works
To start, throw every productivity rule out the window - it destroys the creative process. Creativity and productivity exist on a spectrum and when you do one, it costs you the other.
Welcome to the messy middle.
Thinkable is a place where you can visualize your thoughts and ideas and then keep them in sight, top of mind, and in reach. Where you can effortlessly iterate, synthesize and collaborate with yourself, while expanding your mind, creative field of view and explore your ideas.
// Why should you listen to me?
I’ve done a lot of design, both physical and digital. Everything you see at thinkable I’ve crafted - ID / brand / copy / web / product / artwork / photography / film. Judge the work, it’s opinionated.
I even spent a year writing a book on the topic (of Tangible Thinking).
// coming soon. Sign up for the Kickstarter announcement. Link in bio.
sanj • thinkable retweeted
Humans are now the Interface.
In the age of intelligence, products need to meet us where we're at. This means we still need rich interfaces, artifacts to grasp. We need systems to learn us, and we still need control.
I wrote most of these in early February. So many of these still hold true. This doesnt surprise me.
Designers / Builders let me know what you think.
sanj • thinkable retweeted
New website! Long time coming. Please let me know if you spot any issues or anything is confusing.
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What if you’re listening to us - without our permission?
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.
At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.
We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
Just in, a small town inherited a machine that could make anything.
The baker made shirts, the tailor made shoes, and the shoemaker made bread.
The shirts tore after a few wears, the bread was hard as a rock, and the shoes caused bunions.
After a few weeks everyone was out of a job, and just bought everything from Walmart.
And @figma was originaly designed in Photoshop.
@zoink & @stephenhaney are the goats
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sanj • thinkable retweeted
It's rare that we get a chance to do something we truly believe in. And when you do, you want to share it with everyone.
In my own words.
sanj • thinkable retweeted
Creativity = Analog + HI
Productivity = Digital + AI
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The Thinkable Desktop Studio is your analog creative computer.
Step away from your screens to think deeply. Capture atomically and optimize for divergent thinking.
sanj • thinkable retweeted
The Analog Creative Computer: If apple designed one – it might look like this
The Desktop Studio acts as the display, apps & storage. You are the CPU - the human intelligence & intuition behind ideas, and creative breakthroughs.
The human brain has 2.5 petabytes of storage and processes 50,000 thoughts per day. The conscious brain has a 500-600 ms response, but the unconscious brain has a 50 ms response rate – by the time you are conscious of something, your body has already reacted to it through primitive neural networks.
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The Thinkable Desktop Studio is patent-pending, premium instrument for thinking, which enhances your creativity through ergonomic design and cognitive science principles.
It is a distraction-free space for thinking and creating. And its launching soon!
-sanj
🚀 Thinkable Desktop Studio - Kickstarter coming soon. Sign up for early discounts through the link in bio.
🚀 Tangible Thinking OS - Digital book available now. Learn more and purchase via the link in bio.
If a bird builds a nest, it’s considered natural.
If a man builds a shed, is it man-made or natural?
I remember asking my son, when he was 8, what the difference was. He had a brilliant answer.
Parent Proof Design
Designing a simple product is one of the hardest things to do, as you really need to know exactly what's needed by your audience.
Complexity is easy - AI creates it automatically. Simplicity - not to be confused by minimalism - is one of the hardest things to create.
So I opt to design for Simplexity the simplest form of complex.
And when I design for users, I focus on parents, specifically, "parents-with-young-kids.
This objectively translate to users who:
1. Are under high stress
2. Are dealing with time-sensitive issues
3. Are cognitively pre-occupied
4. Have short attention spans
5. Constantly task switching
6. Managing multiple competing responsibilities
7. Have little time for bs
Those of us who have young children remember the high stress of mornings.
Designing something useful, simplex, and can be parent-proof is not easy.
sanj • thinkable retweeted
So many people on here seem to think the point of tech is to strip out what most people call life
Shopping is living
Reading is living
Listening to music is living
Being bored is living
Existing is living
Waiting is living
Awkwardness is living
Art is living
A lot of people don’t seem to know how to feel joy. Or how to let life in
They just know how to be productive
We need a wholesale shift towards being able to enjoy looking at a plant. Or to wonder about materials or just look at light bouncing off a pool, or to get joy from the details or to ask questions and know people or to savor food , or enjoy touch.
It’s the simple joys . It’s the journey. It’s the edges of life. It’s feeling something. It’s letting it all in. It’s thinking. It’s appreciating.