The current iteration of u4u (4u.io) stopped at creation of input with a return of filtered lists of results. The time has come to deepen and expand the project to include connections, with their potential to display comparisons, weights and the ushering of connections. Help users and hosts rank results by one’s own metrics for control of what we see on our screens, from different perspectives over time.
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,
1. Deliberating a song’s speed – 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/
2. Deliberating a solvent for human use – USHIN ANNOTATION
DMSO was recently evaluated by a physician in his blog with copious citations. The image demonstrates simple annotation, noting how paragraphs might be sorted into ushin categories of meaning. Software to add shapes to a document, here copied into Libre Office Draw, to be built for online and offline ushering. 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. As a neutral deliberation system looking for meaningful, interesting and useful examples without stirring up controversy or appearing biased, this compounds seemed like it might spur questions and concerns about the ushered points, to be published in the future with open deliberation.
The source:
Screenshot a handful of blog testimonials to supplement the kudos written about the author and their rigorously scientific analyses and heartful introspection:
