What software/UI techniques can leverage our spatial memory? I think and remember in physical space, often the location of something is as important as it s content. For instance I keep an untidy desk, but I know where to find things, I use different parts of my (multiscreen) desktop for different windows/icons. I annotate books (with post its) and can remember facing page, top/bottom etc. In the good old days we used to file things so we could find them later, now we use search, but that doesn t really use our spatial abilities. Google maps etc are brilliant but they re only really being used for the real real world, what about our internal locations? How can we leverage the wet ware to best advantage.
EDIT -> I ve thought about a code tool that would profile the running code and then build a visualisation with classes/methods scaled to match their use, with large/small motorways/footpaths between them. Spatial layout still escapes me though - UI at the top, DB at the bottom, but how do you position a class in 3D based on it s usage?