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Block to the Future

Emerging patterns and premonitions in the realm of block-based editors

Assumed Audience

People who have already read my

piece and are open to some playful speculation on the role of blocks in future interfaces.

Disclaimer

I used to work at HASH, a company building infrastructure for block-based editors. This essay and all the research associated with it is my own personal work and opinion, and no one else at the company was involved in its creation. It has no ulterior motive, other than to share my predictions on the block-based landscape. Feel free to take it all with a grain of salt anyway.

We're here to chuck around some irresponsibly speculative ideas on how the block landscape might evolve in the coming years.

In

we worked through our blocky past and present Which brings us to the part everyone clamours for. But what is the future? What is the point of reciting history, if not to try and find patterns that point to what happens next? Let's march forwards with our rear-view mirror in hand.

I've outlined a set of 'bets' I would make about how block interfaces will develop over the next 5 years.

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