A tiny nonprofit fostering offline and online tools for understanding and deliberation.
We are exploring a shape-based method of communication that sorts out basic meanings into a handful of basic shapes for ease of comprehension.
Please see dev.ushin.net for a view of the concept from a developer’s perspective. Find descriptions, presentations and links to software exploring novel interactive displays of the shapes with sharing tested over various platforms. Software experiments have been limited to seven shapes of meaning as calculations required for merit are in early design.
The vision for ushin software, and offline tools, includes 8 shapes:
A list of feelings and needs is handy for finding the words to describe your personal experiences. Thoughts, facts, merits, people, actions, and topics are specific to your situation.