holochain-developer-prototype

Philosophy

Order & Chaos

Creative collaborative endeavors have elements of Order & Chaos.

Order brings structure, cohesion, & a static way. Chaos brings dissolution, diffusion, & dynamism

With dissolution of current order, new order can be created.

Chaos brings a state of unease, inspiring beings in nature to create order to work with the chaos.

Assumptions & Focus

It's common for domain experts to focus on Advanced Knowledge built upon a layer of assumptions. Our fetish for the expert beguiles the audience & the expert alike, playing their roles in the theater of sophistry.

It is important regularly examine all assumptions in design to remain in touch with the audience & with the fundamental objectives. This includes understanding the nature & effect:

• first of text, primitive elements, layout
• then polish
• then further iteration

Initial application of polish, while appealing, hide information architecture issues and make early design conversations co-mingled with separate concerns.

Inspiration & Analogous Analysis

It's important to use the correct analogies. The wrong analogy leads to a false order, ultimately being destroyed by it's own contradictions.

ethereum.org

Ethereum simplified their Information Architecture according to principles in https://github.com/ethereum/ethereum-org-website/. It would be of great value to articulate principles specific to Holochain.

The navigation is split into 4 sections:

• Beginners
• Use - Using apps & currency in the Holochain Ecosystem
• Learn - Links & Resources to learn more about Holochain
• Build - Building hApps & build core code

It's mainly written in markdown using vuepress.

developers.eos.io/

Provides a more structured experience than ethereum.org.

Navigation links are jargon & not goal-oriented.

API docs are not unified with the site experience.

svelte.dev

Home page highlights 3 arguments to use svelte with blog post:

• Write Less Code
• No Virtual DOM
• Truly Reactive

Provides interactive examples of creating components in the tutorial.

Uses starter repos to jumpstart development.

Gatsbyjs

Beautiful icons.

Good visualization of process flow. This is important to describe one of the many processes that Holochain developers would interact with.