The current iteration of u4u (4u.io) stopped at creation of input with a return of filtered lists of results.
u4u bug
The website, u4u.io, currently is having “backend” issues, however demonstrates unique semantic screen interface.
u4u.io did not yet include the ability to make and view connections in a display useful for deliberation. The following examples are all in early process. We are building deliberation tools to make connections, comparisons, and give weight and metrics privately and in community and view different aspects and perspectives according to one’s leadings.
Explore calculations to aggregate ongoing input.
The following two examples are envisioned to demonstrate different aspects of the project as well as follow actionable storylines. The first is mocked up in a libreoffice presentation of the deliberation about a song on Imbue to both explore the semscreen and introduce basic merit calculations and basic views of results. The second example harkens back to the original vision of ushin, a collection of health information. The DMSO example is conceived to usher a collection of information about a single compound to deepen the potential for meaningful connections.
See prior websites and presentations for mockups of ushin for osteoporosis,
Now we are focused on the interface as hosted by WordPress – a semscreen plugin for sites to offer ushin about their concerns. The vast majority of this page is publicly holding space for images relating to the development of the WP plugin.
1. Deliberating a u4u WordPress PlugIn
See dev.ushin.net/semscreen for the latest build – still creating a working MVP.
We – we are using this site for slideshow mockups until the interface accepts images in an upcoming build.
Most input has been facts, thoughts and actions which did not trigger any deliberation.
Deliberation using the emergent interface will be using the interface, examples posted here as well.
Current Feedback:
July 17, 2026
BUG: The central region doesn’t allow easy editing nor flow from headline to byline.
I’d like the cursor to skip to the byline after 20 characters or spaces typing in the header, so user can continue writing, with full editing like other region points.
BUG – when moving points in a list there should be a move icon, like in u4u.io that lets user reorder list with the way to paste between 2 lines
BUG: Context in proximity IMPORTANT
-> Delib screen to respond to central point such that the connect point is directly above, not random
BUG: publish still at the bottom – to in header b/t banner and panel handle. Like u4u.io –
-> delete the button about writing to publish and instead have a toolip on hover the delib region that says, “main point” “drag a point here”:
2 BUGS:
publish button not in header, like u4u.io, with other tools, within the workspace and flow ->move the publish button to the upper right header between banner and button for R panel. Give prominence and real estate to the semscreen
there’s never a blank point, especially on the top of the list – and then only when its the only point and the region is opened (not in balance)
When filtering in right panel for facts only facts appeared, as expected. Filtered for feelings and a feeling showed in the middle. Can the user set the parameters – or have another column appear for date or whatever made the feeling show up in that spot?
BUG: I am able to edit text within text boxes but not getting bullet shape or ability add input to other regions
BUG: Deletion from delib isn’t working
For the purposes of pruning their own delibs, let admins remove points
screen after taking point from middle – to be able to edit it
then deleted it:
and it shows in list:
even on refresh:
and the point remains
BUG and UPDATES – Closed Points
- Closed points (on delib and panels) to have the same appearance – see prior slide show
-> in panel list view move the author from below the line to the upper right rim of the semscreen, as though embedded in the colorful semscreen outline, widened to form the semscreen header of that author’s color and their handle is text within the banner. When minimized the handle may be logo/avitar with handle surrounded by diagonal slashes /[handle]/
- Points wherever they are, lists or delib tree…, have buttons: copy, delete, centralize
- change centralize button to four arrows pointing in from corners and sides just part of the arrow shaft, no room for 8 arrowheads in a little icon
- The all should have the publish date on the upper left – see prior mockup – that shows when opened,
- FYI – the date shows up in connect point at packaging [next]
BUG
There is still a duplicate of the title and the word “DELIBERATING”
-> just remove everything but the deliberation itself – just the root and descendents in a line to the point in focus below the delib – please see prior slides.
This is a copy of mockup from below:
This is what the delib shows all the time – a straight shot from the top so user knows what’s being deliberated, no need to announce or title or explain what to do. See above, re region tooltip
2 BUGs
move this to center by copy paste to save tag
BUG
Paste works in byline but not headline
BUG
There is still a view with double roots and persistent word, DELIBERATING ? remove everything but the deliberation itself – remove click to view the tree, too
-> that’s a tooltip for the region that says, “explore”
BUG – delib gets cut off at top
If toolbar is transparent wondering why the delib gets cut off, maybe a buffer ..?
=> try a moveable toolbar that doesn’t cover any of the deliberation
? remove the whole screen icon, unless it does something besides what clicking the screen does
UPDATE – this will improve the navigation experience a lot
? make one row of buttons: not 2: redo then center then – and + next to each other then add a navigator button has arrows pointing out in 4 directions up-down and right-left and when people select it the button enlarges a bit within empty space and user can navigate more easily, also the keyboard arrow buttons do the same thing, move the center of the delib around.
BUGS
-> remove “copy point” button on the top of the list of subpoints of a selected delib point
-> remove the x to close the view of a selected point instead the user would simply click away to wherever they are going next in the plugin – a benefit of keeping options in view.
-> if “copy point” copies the semscreen then it would be the copy icon with tooltip explaining, copy semscreen
-> it looks like there is a way to enter tags, is that for the whole semscreen? for user to submit?
-> move the tag input feature to drafts in the package stage.
FUTURE: It will be useful to tag published points and semscreens, but that is more for personal organization at this point … to revisit later.
Bug – no shape bullet
When user clicks on a region the cursor expected to show up to the right of the little shape bullet
BUG
BUG
The deliberation point may wrap but the second line pushes the first line away so you can’t read it.
-> when user selects the center region the cursor shows adjacent to selected shape and when the user types after ~? 20 characters in the header the byline pops up and the user keeps typing to see the characters show in the byline
-> let the byline text show from the top beyond the first line until the last character – and maybe follow twitter space limits
BUG – it’s possible to publish the same exact point twice
BUG – indent icon in left panel – at this point we don’t have hierarchical or outline features for list of drafts – this would be a future feature, t.b.d.
-> remove this in the panel, it is good in a region that has indented points but otherwise would not show
BUG – sometimes clicking on a region in draft displays a bullet with cursor next to it – which is expected, sometimes just the region gets larger without a bullet or cursor, even when clicking a few times
-> fix so every time user clicks a region in draft it opens with bullet shape and cursor
BUG: – the ownership of the semscreen is not clear
The upper middle region is good with a transparent background, it represents the community context of the semscreen, which is the domain of the author and so the entire background – a short fat “U” shape, including the background of the main point – all of that to match the color and intensity of the author.
Here the regions in the periphery show a relatively less intense hue of the author. Is that because the plugin won’t let us customize the background of the board, not just the regions?
-> Make the background from the header down to the bottom of the semscreen as orange as what tester violet chose (who is color blind i guess) except for the upper middle region that stays black. The purpose is to unify the semscreen as belonging to that author
-> Mockup with background of semscreen in author color
-> regions stay with most readable contrast of font and background, b/w
-> make the author handle be within the upper border,
-> make the header as short as possible
-> put the banner of author as background color to author handle, not just a circle by the handle
-> make the host banner show up as intersection of the author who is hosted by ushin, who is the host of the other published data to be listed under it (not shown in this mockup)
/tester violet/ – see other mockups
This lets the header of the list come up into the same high level as the semscreen header – but the published header is
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++end of July 17 feedback———————
July 16, 2026
2 slides, Click a point
Thank you, Chris!!
——– end of Feedback for July 16 2026 —————-
July 8 -> remove white line
-> grey out shapes when there aren’t any in list of that shape
[] the board overlaps the word Edit
-> hide smaller of two shapes when region is not enlarged.
[] the facts region flickered from this state to open and back when facts was clicked
[] it didn’t flicker when the facts region was open (note message within example)
[] when moving thought to center it got chopped into two small pieces
[] and the second piece was from a prior main point
( ) I was expecting the first few words to show in the first piece and
( ) the rest of the point be like a byline, or second piece (scroll if long) and
( ) I think the outer rim may be in the next milestone
-> avoid repeats when publishing
If \ / ushin is a label of the region please center it and
-> move buttons to be linear, horizontal in upper right corner of region
[] this happened when scrolling inside a region, seems to be enlarging fonts
( ) expected the region would enlarge
[ ] the current version has “published” pop up and “publish” button on the bottom:
( ) I’d like the next milestone to include the author profile, action button and package mode, so we don’t need buttons under the semscreen for managing the semscreen – they should be on the right edge of the semscreen
( ) The banner looks slick now
-> next milestone try the user name within the banner shape, so its text within a border which makes a long single-wave flag of the user color – maybe white or grey till user selects a color. See earlier mockups.
( ) i think the groups may have their logo there, and user could upload an avatar or whatever in the future, for now just a color and
–> later we can add patterns and the customization and uploads of logo or avatar
-> make the banner a button opening right panel with the current author profile on top of list of other hats to select and opportunity to create a new hat is a + top right of current author hat
( ) I realize why its important to show semscreens when user clicks a point in a delib – you can’t split up a subpoint from its main point in the interface – the semscreen is sacrosanct.
( ) subpoints lose meaning when not attached to their main point
-> when user clicks point in delib the subpoints appear around that main point, even making the region enlarge to contain it
-> the separate subpoints showing in the delib can show copy option on hover or tap, or even dnd to an open draft or onto a blank semscreen to open a new draft
[ ] the rest of the delib disappeared when clicking the point
-> when user clicks a delib point have it show the entire main point and byline with tags, author, date
-> second click enlarges to show full point and some regions may not be readable (scroll if its a paragraph or more)
- >3rd click opens region full screen (up to outer rim) (scroll if nec)
-> keep delib in view, at least siblings and parent, if not grandparent and indicate each generation with a dot if there’s no room to show the lineage beyond root and connect point (+ siblings, and if more show dots on either side)
( ) i like the root showing all the time
( ) I’m not seeing the difference b/t the two circle buttons for zooming
( ) i wonder if the dotted dupe was because i tried to publish twice
[ ] when the point was selected in the delib the display did not show its subpoints until scrolling
( ) too much space and no connect b/w main point and subpoints
-> show the subpoints surrounding the main point in place where you clicked it – like a semscreen within the enlarging context/merit region
NOT SHOWN
( ) not sure if this is necessary in a VIEWING bo if we aren’t going to have subpoints show up in this way in our next build, but
( ) want lines of text to have to the right of the … a “>” user clicks to show the text wrap and the screen enlarge , even with scroll if very long – so you get benefit of beginning of lines as scannable list with an easy way to make the full line readable
-> remove the shape labels in filter header on right panel, just the shapes themselves in a row – user can see what they mean, or we could have hover-overs if you think they are necessary
( ) the elegant region borders are lovely however the color is subtle when the semscreen is enlarged
-> next milestone: try making the entire background of the semscreen the user’s chosen color such that the regions remain either black or white for content, and the area outside and between the regions is the user’s color; the menu would stay dark, I like that, and it would show up the banner color.
The region outlines stay subtle when the screen size is reduced, too
[] when i finished editing the thoughts regions and clicked on feelings the feelings region enlarged and covered up the other content
() i expected the rest of the semscreen to be as readable as possible
() once the structure is set this would be good to deliberate – it seems there are 2 conflicting rules
- regions to expand on click, putting cursor in text box
- as much as possible keep semscreen content readable
-> consider indiv points besides the main point offering user headline and byline
Package to Publish
() let’s discuss this next milestone – the packaging
- connect points, including roots to be selected on the delib
- “publish anyway” would be clarified – as save, export, share …
() The connect button is a great idea – since clicking on the point would open it, not cause a connection.
() thinking we could deliberate how this might appear – in this verion the point is hinted at immediately under the connect point and then again in adjacent main point of draft, no need for the duplication
() once the list view of subpoints is changed to a semscreen with the main point larger we can see if the main points in both the connecting and draft semscreens will be approximated enough to show a relationship
() wonder if a labeled arrow from the main point of the connect semscreen (opened in context/merit region) to the main point of the draft (opened in adjacent region below), both flanked by draft subpoints
() we do not necessary want to juxtapose subpoints, just the main points (remember if user wants to connect to a subpoint they have to make a new semscreen, which will be linked to the main point where it originated.
() i’d like to see this implemented or mocked up in the next metric
and – including he banner and I hesitate to make them thicker because I want to maximize area for content.
END OF JULY 9 feedback for now – to continue later
Slide mockups for plugin development
New deck:
Semscreen Response to Panel Openings
New deck July 2, 2026:
Semscreen region resizing – e.g. upper mid
4 slides incl this one
Semscreen elongation bug
-> try limiting the right panel content after so many points and offer a scrolling handle
Screenshot u4u.io on desktop
See content of screenshot:
Remember – future features here just to show need for intact semscreen going forward – ignore the part about pasted images, a feature of a separate plugin. Note: whole semscreen view is needed in the modular interface.
End of slides about the plugin for now.
2. Deliberating a song’s speed – NEW FEATURES – SEMSCREEN INTERFACE
The following slides show a mockup of a deliberation about a song. Deliberations to be hosted by a collaborative docu-musical website, Imbue.im which is experimenting with upcoming online ushin deliberation tools.
The deliberation features will extend the interface modeled by the browser app u4u.io.
Starting an ushin deliberation
Mockup: Starting deliberation about a song
- Using a semscreen to create, edit and submit for publication
- Replying to a published semscreen on the same site
- Using host-curated tags for semscreen points
- Adding sources
- Packaging with merits
https://dev.ushin.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Deliberation-Example-1-3.pdf
Extended deliberation data and displays
Mockup: Extended deliberation data and displays
- Mind map view of published user points rolated to semscreen
- Mind map user experience
- Merit calculations and parameters curated by publishing host
- Example merit calculations
- View calculation and parameters in context
- Map view of merit scores and options
- Outline and list views
- Potential displays of multiple semscreens list
https://dev.ushin.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Example-Deliberation-2-Merits-1.pdf
Merit settings
See example merit calculations for the Imbue project deliberation: https://imbue.im/imbue-merit-calculations/
3. Deliberating a compound for human use – USHIN ANNOTATION
DMSO was recently evaluated by a physician in his blog with copious citations.
The results to show on shape-tagged semscreens built around a root topic, DMSO. For ease this will start with ushering one readily-cited document, “Ushering DMSO”, using the u4u.io instance and other ushin tools as they develop. The topic was selected as a test topic because it is an emergent concern with a single source holding adequate citations to online deliberation tools. The team is also new to the topic, so will be adding no original content beyond ushering existing content from a recent. Once ready, the team will invite community participation to publish your own points and queries with open deliberation.
Annotate blog content with ushin tags
The image demonstrates simple annotation, using Libre Office Draw, without ushin shapes. Until there is ushin software to annotate with shapes our process to mock up the example will be to copy the text into u4u.io for tagging.
The source:
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/early-health-innovators-and-dmso
The following sreenshot shows a handful of typical blog testimonials found on the site, which supplement numerous kudos awarded this author and publisher of rigorously scientific analyses and heartful introspection:
