I wish we got more affordances here with this side of the experience. The nicest thing recently I think are the idea of a directed acyclic graph that describes

I wish we got more affordances here with this side of the experience. The nicest thing recently I think are the idea of a directed acyclic graph that describes the system. But even these get cumbersome when many parts are involved and these are only presented in 2d and fully appreciated when they fit within your monitor. While it can be nice if these sorts of things can be visualized in 3d in virtual reality perhaps, I think that in 3d digital environments that often look structurally similar it is easy to lose a sense of subconcious wayfinding that we inherently have when we observe real things in real life. In other words, a messy dag is hard to interpret, but your messy desk full of papers you can subconciously place where everything might be, because it exists in the 3d space in real life where all your senses are active on it as they are designed to be. not in a simulated manner but the real thing that can never be fully modeled. Companies used to model things in 3d via clay or balsa wood to help visualize ideas in this manner. Eventually people like architects started using autocad instead of balsawood. But one wonders if a certain dimension of understanding of a project was lost when we went from something we could walk around and look at unencumbered, into a digital abstraction of some real thing.