Inspirations from Paper by Fiftythree

• The experience of reading, ideation, craft, creation deserves a beautiful interface, not just a functional one. The interface should inspire creation, not intimidate with a blank canvas.
• Paper is great because it offers a simple, minimal set of tools that each work beautifully without needing or affording customization, but combine together to form a cohesive toolkit. Attribute vectors in a latent space UI should feel similarly: a small default set of abstractions not needing customization, that inspire beautiful creation and provide a huge expressive range. This isn't so much about PCA or anything quantitatively computed, as much as a matter of taste -- What minimal set of thoughtfully designed tools makes people unafraid to create, because an unassuming brushstroke can yield something beautiful that they can be proud of?
• Paper's color mixing wheel is a beautiful interface. It lets users traverse a latent space without explicitly constructing or visualizing the space or attribute vectors, by simply picking from a palette or sampling colors from their canvas. We can imagine implementing something similar for images or language using generative models, moving around in latent space by swirling and remixing images and texts we come across in life or across the web.

Good food for thought a time of explosive experimentation and exploration for creative interfaces using generative AI models.