Designing Products, Experiences, and Marketing
This week has been pretty fascinating, examining the eyes and the mind. As people, we get habituated to our vision and take for granted how it works both for and against us. Understanding how the eye receives light, and then how the brain interprets it to serve both survival and cognitive purposes now seem obvious…
Preface – As of Jan 2019, I’ve enrolled at Kent State University, seeking a Master of Science in User Experience Design. As such, certain coursework in the curriculum will require regular blog posts (reflections) of weekly learnings. This is the first of those posts. In reflecting on Week 1 in UXD Principles and Concepts, I…
A video essay exploring whether or not RDR2 is actually any fun or not.
Gamification Origins Gamification is a stupid word. I think at this point just about all of us agree on that. Yet despite the words silliness, the definition is important: the process of applying game-based elements to non-game activities. We humans have been trying to gamify non-game situations (at least knowingly, at scale, in business, according…
I was selected by publisher Kogan Page to read an advance copy of one of their upcoming titles, The Gen Z Frequency (scheduled for release on September 28). Over the last few weeks, I’ve worked my way through the text with relative ease. It’s a well-written, fun book. In what I would now call the…
A short playthrough of Celeste with an 8-bit version of Metallica’s Enter Sandman.
Every year, I take a different approach to resolutions. Since 2013 I’ve crafted a personal balanced scorecard to guide my personal behaviour, and, hopefully, improve it. Most of this is pretty personal to me, but I’m happy to talk with anyone about it if you have questions. For the last few years, I’ve broken my…
My video review of the book Be Like Amazon by Roy Williams and Brian & Jeffrey Eisenberg. How you create a successful business that maintains momentum.
It’s more than the gamification buzz that’s been thrown around. I’m a total nerd. It took me a long time to realize how big of a nerd I really am though. In high school, I was friends with people that played sports (when I did not). Being friends with “jocks” clouded my self-assessment accuracy, and…
Last month I decided it was time to do a new custom PC build. It wasn’t much on the “budget” side, but I did already have an Nvidia GTX 1070 that I’d picked up last year, so I didn’t have to worry about a GPU. Here’s a capture from CAM of the system upon completion:…