# Magic Is Real: How Applying "Skins" To Business Logic Makes Life Brighter
**URL:** https://gov.bancor.network/t/magic-is-real-how-applying-skins-to-business-logic-makes-life-brighter/1987
**Category:** Community Chatroom (DISCUSSION)
**Created:** [May 4, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://gov.bancor.network/t/magic-is-real-how-applying-skins-to-business-logic-makes-life-brighter/1987 "2021-05-04T15:43:47Z")
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### Author:  [@ccc](https://gov.bancor.network/u/ccc)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://gov.bancor.network/t/magic-is-real-how-applying-skins-to-business-logic-makes-life-brighter/1987/1 "2021-05-04T15:43:47Z")
Hello fellow Bancorians (Mine now š). @Jefe-fintechv1 [brought up a _skookum as frig_ idea recently](https://gov.bancor.network/t/how-to-increase-voter-turnout/1933/42), and I wanted to expand upon why I think itās such a revolutionary idea.
There are many ways to view and represent the same thing. Letās have an example:
`The Ethereum Network, a smart contract platform. At a cost of Ether, the network's native token, you can deploy smart contracts, which are programs that define business logic and handle value in the form of tokens via transactions, and which can be interacted with by users of the network, or even by other contracts.`
Versus:
`The Ethereum, an arcane aura that exists all around us. Using Ether, which is the substance underlying the fabric of the Ethereum, you can cast enchantments that manipulate the Ethereum to produce specific effects, and which can be used by casters and non-casters alike, or even other enchantments.`
Iām no marketing specialist, and Iām no fantasy/science fiction writer or anything like that. But hopefully Iāve demonstrated my point.
To most people, Business Is Boringā¢ (not to me, but Iām _super_ nerdy) and High Technology Is Scaryā¢ (ditto). By taking our core business logic, and then abstracting it away under the skin of some kind of āsimplerā (or just _different than business_) setting which is more fun to think about and picture yourself interacting with, we can make our system much more appealing to those who arenāt already in the crypto space, and we can even make using the system directly into a _fun_ experience. We donāt even need to stick with just one, we could potentially have many such frontends tailored toward specific analogies.
Letās assume for a moment Iām not a total geek who does spreadsheets for _fun_. I might not necessarily want to think about profit margins and other business-related concepts. But what would be _awesome_ is being told I can literally _summon money_.
A shining example of this design approach is the [Botania Mod](https://botaniamod.net/) for Minecraft. Botania is, mechanically speaking, a _tech mod_, and it even says so in the project description. But looking at it, you donāt see _tech_, you see _magic_, and if you look closer itās _magic which does things tech does_, to the point where mod goes out of its way to _never show you the numbers directly_; magic doesnāt deal with numbers, not in my experience. The end result is the same; your ore is doubled or whatever it is you happen to be trying to do, but the process _appeared_ much less technical and was consequently easier to think about. Itās a fun _abstraction_ of industrial processes that makes the whole system easier to fit in your head.
Just some thoughts I wanted to share. Would like to hear discussion.
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### Author:  [@Jefe-fintechv1](https://gov.bancor.network/u/Jefe-fintechv1)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://gov.bancor.network/t/magic-is-real-how-applying-skins-to-business-logic-makes-life-brighter/1987/2 "2021-05-04T19:11:08Z")
I like where youāre going with this even though it may be outside of the teamās core focus. I suppose we could combine this in some way with the marketing plan discussed in [Automatically allocate 2% of fees to marketing](https://gov.bancor.network/t/automatically-allocate-2-of-fees-to-marketing/1693), form a team and draft a grant request to the Bancor foundation. That is if I understand how things work at all, which I may not.
> [@ccc](#):
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> Iām no marketing specialist, and Iām no fantasy/science fiction writer or anything like that. But hopefully Iāve demonstrated my point.
Iāve got lots of marketing experience, and love sci-fi so I would be happy to chip in.