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Visual design is a language, and it’s no less complex than our written/verbal language, and no less able to form traceable patterns than all our languages and ideas combined. Language works because of the underlying patterns. Words support it, and new words can be created to support new
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This is not a design system. This is an architecture that can contribute to a well-formulated design system.
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Expert use of information architecture enables both insight and expert redesign. Information isn’t just the nodes we tend to pay attention to – the positive forms in the abstractions of data. Between the positive forms is connections. Those connections, combined, form connectome. That connectome forms patterns that can be used
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Riffpoints architecture is focused on deep information construction. All the concepts are/will-be to a degree, but this one barely gets out. There is very limited outward-facing effects, and even then it's only in the extended potentials. But: that's our information. Information is abstract. We have