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    • πŸ—ΊοΈNavigating a Canvas
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    • πŸ”£Canvas Layouts
      • β˜‘οΈPrinciples-Based
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WayFinder Platform

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Last updated 1 year ago

The core of the WayFinder Platform is a digital "canvas", where content can be positioned and visualised in many powerful ways to enable reflective practice, sensemaking, ideation, discovery and more - processes that cohere with the over-arching .

A strength is the ability to quickly switch contexts, from a personal view that has only your content, to a shared/collaborative perspective that displays other peoples content in relationship to your own.

The innovation here is a user interface that moves away from restrictive vertical timelines as found in social media feeds, blogs and group chats; to something that allows many entry points and quickly reveals themes, patterns and connections. Maggie Appleton has described this as .

In this sense the platform is breaking new ground in social, knowledge and sensemaking systems.

With a strong focus on stories (hence the ), exploring a canvas will often feel like sitting around a digital campfire and reading/listening/watching the stories people have shared...

The following sections provide more detail regarding how you can interact with a canvas, as well as the options for designing and customising canvases to your requirements.

philosophy of "wayfinding"
"topography over timelines"
StoryKeeper app
An example of a WayFinder "canvas" with stories, reflection, questions and personal profiles depicted using various iconography