Tangents
A bet on a different way to talk. Tangents explores chatting in 2D: laying conversation out by topic instead of one time-ordered stream, so threads can branch and breathe instead of scrolling away.
- Category
- Experimental chat
- Platform
- Mobile
- Status
- Experiment
Conversation isn't a straight line.
Group chats force every topic into one scrolling timeline, where the thing you actually wanted to discuss gets buried under the last ten messages. Tangents is an experiment in laying chat out in 2D by topic: letting conversations branch into their own spaces so nothing gets lost to the scroll.
Start, branch, explore.
Start
Open a conversation.
Begin like any chat, then let it grow in more than one direction.
Branch
Spin off topics.
Tangents become their own spots on a 2D canvas instead of cluttering one stream.
Explore
Move spatially.
Navigate the conversation by topic and place, not by scrolling back through time.
An experiment worth running.
2D topic layout
Conversation arranged in space, organised by what it's about.
Non-linear chat
Escape the single time-ordered stream that buries everything.
Topic branches
Side-conversations get their own room to breathe.
Openly experimental
A genuine bet on a new interaction model: that's the point.
Like betting on new ideas?
Tangents is exactly the kind of experiment Zizo likes to run. Want to talk about novel product ideas? Let's chat.