IDEAS ARE JUST THE BEGINNING.
Imagine it. Design it. Experiment with it. Assemble it.
IDEA80 is an independent, multidisciplinary initiative exploring software, inventions and engineering experiments. A place to follow a possibility—and find out what it takes to make it work.
Different parts. New possibilities.
Explore the work
From useful software to open-ended inventions. Two ways into the same question: what could this become?
01 / SOFTWARE
Small tools. Useful possibilities.
Software exploration across Productivity, Tools, Utilities, Business, Experimental and Other.
Application entries will appear here as they are published. No applications are listed yet.
02 / INVENTIONS
Questions with a physical dimension.
Research, product designs and engineering trials—from the first spark to the next working prototype.
Design entries will appear here as they are published. No projects are listed yet.
Each project follows its own story: the spark or problem, the constraint, the prototype, the pivot and the outcome. Entries distinguish concepts from tested observations, with room for experiments and a working demonstration when one is available.
- Concept: an initial possibility to explore.
- Research: investigating the problem and its constraints.
- Experiment: testing a specific question.
- In Development: assembling and refining a solution.
- Completed: the intended scope has been finished.
- Published: the work has been shared publicly.
From the lab notebook
Work in progress. Assumptions worth testing. Lessons worth keeping—including what didn’t work, and why.
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A useful experiment starts with a question
A practical framework for defining a question, setting constraints and deciding what a prototype needs to reveal.
A process, not a straight line.
Four modes of thinking. Move between them whenever the work asks for it.
I
Imagine
Think creatively. Explore possibilities before deciding what the answer should look like.
D
Design
Give a concept structure. Refine its form, its interactions and the details that make it understandable.
E
Experiment
Test a hypothesis. Learn from iterative trials, unexpected behavior and ideas that don’t hold up.
A
Assemble
Bring the parts together. Build a functional reality, then look closely at what it makes possible.