Software should keep working when the network does not
Offline capability is not a fallback. It is a statement about who controls the tool and where its essential work happens.
EDITORIAL ARCHIVE4 NOTES ON FILE
Articles
Essays, build notes and product decisions from a studio making software for the device in front of you.
01ALL NOTES
Notes from outside the browser.
Latency is part of the interface
Responsiveness is not an implementation detail. The time between intent and result changes how a tool feels and how people use it.
Privacy is a property of the architecture
The strongest privacy promise is not a policy paragraph. It is a system that has less sensitive data available to disclose in the first place.
Why we started with push-to-talk
A small interaction boundary makes dictation more predictable, more private and easier to fit into the applications people already use.