A Syllabus for User Experience
When I agreed to teach a class on User experience Design at General Assembly, I had a very clear idea of what I would teach. And what I would not. I would not teach OMnigraffle or Photoshop. I was tired of classes that purported to teach…
Don’t Kill Your Channels
A channel is a way you can reach your users. It can be email, notifications, stories in a Facebook stream or even push notifs on an iphone. Because most companies are so anxious to reach out to their user base, there is a temptation to use the channel…
Lessons from Game Design; Citations and References
I’m sorry I did not record the talk. But here are the slides No Stinking Badges: Better Lessons from Game Design from Christina Wodtke And I will share many of my citations, my wall of heroes, my pin board I…
Earthquakes
In 1923, Frank Lloyd Wright completed the Imperial Hotel, a building commissioned in Japan. In 1923, there was a 8.3 magnitude earthquake. The hotel survived. Wright was a midwesterner like myself, and had no experience with Earthquakes. When he arrived…
Terms of Art for the Heart
A term of art is a word when used in a professional context has a very precise meaning. I’ve been reading a lot about game mechanics and theory, inspired by Amy Jo Kim’s terrific talk given recently at Linkedin. Right…
Good Morning, Everyone
Welcome to a new and simple eleganthack design, finally live. The old eleganthack I’m moved to archives.eleganthack.com, and this lifestream blog I made my main interface. I kept thinking I’d do some fine tuning then starting writing here again. Six…
Twitpoll: do you Yammer?
Twitpoll: do you Yammer?, originally uploaded by Box and Arrow. small sample size…. but resonates.
Context is King!
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com Except rules are tricky things with an operation like Flickr’s. The ban on commerce seems simple enough, but as someone at the meeting points out, Brazil’s secondhand economy is an integral part of…
Talking About Stuff