History
How this site has changed
Every version of the site, newest first, with what each one added or changed.
- v2.0
The site as a knowledge system
A rebuild around one idea: designed structure shapes possibility. Every page, guide, term and note now sits in one registry, so the site can be read as a network rather than a set of sections.
- New navigation: explore, guides, work, pursuits, library, about.
- An explore page, a start page for first visits, search, a now page, a colophon and a feed.
- Pathways through the guides for four kinds of reader, drawn as lines on a transit map.
- The craft map: educational technology as six regions, each a card that turns over to its guides, primers and glossary entries.
- How I work, in four views: read, cards, table and checklist.
- Worked cases, patterns, counterpositions, toolkit moves and a one-problem page in work.
- Concepts and lineage in the library, and a green colour of its own.
- The Atlas and the Loom on the about page, as a contour map and a weave to explore.
- The five field guides moved onto the engine the guide series use, keeping their look.
- Dark mode replaced by Dim, a toned-down light theme.
- A last-updated date in the footer, and this page.
- v1.6
Five field guides
The set of field guides completed, and every deck given a live remote.
- Working defaults and false certainties added as the fourth and fifth field guides.
- False certainties and its index locked behind the password with its guide.
- The home page library mixes its collections.
- A live deck remote loads in every guide, talk and sharing.
- v1.5
Guide series and glossaries
The two guide series arrived, with glossaries generated from them, and the site learned to work on a phone.
- The statistics guide, and a look of its own for each guide series.
- Both guide series on the site, behind a password.
- Three glossaries in the library, generated from the guides, cut into a page per guide.
- Glossary links to slides open in a new tab.
- The collections levelled, so they sit alike.
- The whole site made to read and work on a phone.
- v1.4
Field guides begin
A talk on designing for learning, and the first three field guides.
- Designing for learning added as a talk, with a note on ease of use versus ease of learning.
- The cognitive bias field guide, with a note on practice, and later its third edition.
- The collective fallacies and faulty arguments field guides.
- The three field guides bundled and linked to one another, with reference lists derived from their entries.
- The night room added as a new-tech exploration.
- v1.3
Reflections and inspirations
Two personal sections, and one engine for every deck.
- Reflections added, and every deck brought onto one engine.
- Inspirations added as a fourth personal section, with the map of world views.
- The favicon coloured by lane, and the footer headings lined up.
- v1.2
Guides and talks
The first guide, the first talks, and a worked example of futuring.
- Guides added, starting with the one on learning materials, driven by click and swipe as well as the arrows.
- Talks added, with a note on what design is in edtech.
- The futuring worked example, behind a password.
- Coffee, as a library shelf and as a pursuit.
- v1.1
Findable
The site made legible to search engines and other readers.
- A sitemap and robots.txt, generated from the same data the pages read.
- Canonical URLs on every page, and structured data for people, notes and shelves.
- A share card, so a link dropped in a chat is no longer bare text.
- v1.0
Launch
The first version, built on the Atlas & Loom design system.
- The site built on Atlas & Loom: work, pursuits, library and about.
- The mark, a colour for each section, and movement on scroll.
- The library filled, with two more shelves.
- A paragraph on how I came to mahjong, on its pursuit page.