For an analyst or a designer

Where to start

Your first application, declared as a world.

Your path

Every step carries its stage, in the words of the Estate page: built, in construction, specification, designed, named.

The analyst and the designer

You write the specification as sentences, and what you hand over is a prototype that runs and a deployment that has been rehearsed.

1. State the specification in natural language that runs. built · see: Natural, and executable
2. Express workflows, rules and constraints as rules over graphs. built · see: Diagramming & graphs
3. Declare the interface under the law of the interface, composed in a face file. in construction · see: Zui constitution
4. Define, emulate and deploy: the whole solution runs on a twin before it runs anywhere real. built · see: Emulating the Whole Solution

The data analyst

You bring data in, clean it with the verbs you already read, ask it questions in sentences, and end on a chart you can show.

1. Import and clean with the text, number and list functions. built · see: String
2. Host the data in a table or a data set and query it. built · see: Tables & data
3. Match patterns across tables, numbers and time. built · see: Pattern matching
4. Pivot, and draw: the plots come from the engine. Their human verdict is still owed. built · see: Graphics
5. Ask Aïcha over the governed data store. specification · see: The estate, stage by stage

The site, from where you stand

Platform

• Applications · An application is a world of meaning, declared once.
• The world · What you declare: the domain, its life and its body.
• Tables & data · Tables and data: one data frame with a pattern language.
• Surfaces · Where an application meets people: the web today, the native interface in construction.

Vision

• Language of languages · A domain expert declares a language and gets a domain language, a knowledge base and a local agent.
• Zui constitution · The Zui constitution: 122 rules for interfaces that stay calm.

Learn

• Natural, and executable · Sentences in five languages that run with no model.
• By example · Find a method by showing an example of what you want.

Reference

• How-to · Answers to “how do I…”, each one run.
• Glossary · The words this site uses in its own sense.

Adopt

• Projects and references · The projects behind Softanza: a bank's organisation in Niamey, neighbourhood commerce in Lyon.

What Softanza offers you

What you declare and what you get, with an example run: the “analyst” door of the Adopt page, the “designer” door of the Adopt page.

The positioning sentence

Written in 2022: the prototype is the deliverable.

Written in 2022: the dashboard is the deliverable.