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Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage
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Ink & Switch marks its tenth anniversary with Tenfold, an interactive art piece built using the lab’s research technologies; visitors are invited to click and drag through a ten-letter, ten-year playground and can buy themed shirts and posters. The lab positions itself as an independent research group designing a new class of computers that amplify human intelligence - tools that improve clarity of thought, collaboration, and availability. That vision drives four focused research areas: local-first software that returns data ownership to users, malleable software for in-the-moment customization, programmable ink that makes sketches behave like spreadsheets, and universal version control for exploring alternatives and collaborative history across media.
Work products demonstrate those principles: essays and lab notebooks present Ambsheets (spreadsheets for exploring scenarios), KeyHive (local-first access control with end-to-end encryption), Patchwork (dynamic creative environments), LivelyMerge (a collaborative programming kernel), Embark (dynamic documents for planning), and Inkbase (programmable ink). Production projects include Allume (a flexible visual workspace) and Automerge (a CRDT library for offline-capable, automatically syncing collaboration). Active outreach through conferences, sponsors, a newsletter, and code on GitHub underpins a practical research-to-product pipeline aimed at restoring user agency and enabling richer, more trustworthy collaborative tools.
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