Continuing the UX for All series, I combine a "why" and "don't have to know it all" set of prompts, considering how choosing to collaborate, investigate, and design is a very useful thing. Related Links and Resources Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through November 2019 For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class Blog of an Interactive Storytel...
Nov 05, 2019
Responding to "challenges" as a prompt, I share some brief thoughts on creative challenges and why I find them so useful. Related Links and Resources Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge - on SALE through November 2019 Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product mak...
Nov 04, 2019
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I talk about my recent notebook and sketchbook review and what I found digging through a few years of books. Related Links and Resources Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders Subscribe to the Polytechnicast ...
Nov 03, 2019
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on how I recently purchased a broken Psyduck and fixed it up. Working with electronics is relatively new to me so this was a fun puzzle. Related Links and Resources Photo gallery for this Psyduck repair Big Fun Columbus Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and p...
Nov 03, 2019
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I continue the UX for All series by re-introducing it, how I'm picking various topics about collaborative design + research and sharing what comes to mind. The main topic is considering a weather as a metaphor for good decision making. Related Links and Resources Art Soundoff Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and pro...
Nov 02, 2019
The Polytechnicast is this ongoing journal and fairly infrequent most times of the year except for November. Kicking things off for Art Soundoff 2019 with journaling intentions for the month ahead and re-introducing both myself and this show. Related Links and Resources Art Soundoff Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 01, 2019
Thinking about how as an artist I'm also excited and interested in the business side of work, how that's been one of the themes of my career so far. Also the three part business of make, teach, coach that I'm working on. Related Links and Resources Guitar Fretter Drawing User Journey Maps via Skillshare Drawing User Journey Maps via Gumroad (buy once) Coaching product makers and leaders Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Sep 15, 2019
A few things I encountered today had me thinking about specialization and how could I pay attention to some signals that help me with being both a generalist creator and deisgner and appreciating the clarity of specialization. Also: thinking about specialization how it works when it's based on you starting something vs. you serving an existing thing or organization. Related Links and Resources Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Aug 05, 2019
Guitar Fretter is a game about of memorizing the note positions on the guitar. If you play an instrument with strings and frets, you might want to check out. Match the notes on the floating monsters bellies with the correct fret positions to earn health and points. To celebrate the birthday of Guitar Fretter for the next couple days, it's on sale for FREE, available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac: http://guitarfretter.com Originally this was streamed live at: twitch . Related Links and Resour...
Jul 27, 2019
Continuing the mini-summer-season of the Polytechnicast with some thoughts about making more things than I share even though I do like to share work in progress. Related Links and Resources Art Geek Zoo Comics - No Remorse Riverhorse In the Land of the Rabbits Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate (get 2 months of Skillshare free by signing up via this link) ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polyt...
Jul 09, 2019
When we look at other artist's processes it's fun to consider the tools they use while knowing the tools only tell part of the story. This episode begins a Summer-mini-season of the Polytechnicast! Related Links and Resources Impromptu® Full Whiteboard Screen, 42 x 72 | Safco Products Jerzy Drozd (@jerzydrozd) • Instagram photos and videos Kim Holm (@denungeherrholm) • Instagram photos and videos Seeing and Drawing Happy Characters Like the Happiest Kitty In the Universe (FREE class on Skillshar...
Jun 17, 2019
This post is my look back at Art Soundoff 2018 in the style of what went well and what could have been better. Also, I consider a what-if about creative challenges becoming even more frequent and wider reaching with different topics and media. And I share thoughts on what might be next for the Polytechnicast. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 30, 2018
Do you have a video game or set of video games you revisit from time to time because they feel comfortable? What keeps these sorts of games interesting and worth coming back to? In this audio experiment Polytechnicast I'm joined by co-host Patrick Greenwell, a long time video game enthusiast and we explore what games are like comfort food to us and why. Related Links and Resources Dead Cells Rogue Legacy Golden Axe on Sega Genesis GI Joe on NES Street Fighter II Arcade Card Fighters Clash on the...
Nov 29, 2018
Here I explore a variety of things about working with data ranging from: exploring it, visualizing it, and things that inspire me to try to provide more ways of interacting with data. In a lot of ways, this is a post is a mix of ideas about being excited about learning from and then presenting what you learn through gathering, exploring, then presenting data. Related Links and Resources Explorable Explanations Rob Stenzinger - Tools I Use Social Science | Explorable Explanations Project Jupyter ...
Nov 28, 2018
For this year's Inktober, which is a 31 day creative challenge to make and share a drawing every day in October, I chose to both partake and to try to get output that could help one of my other projects. Related Links and Resources Rob Stenzinger on Instagram JetPens Brush Pen Sampler 2 - JetPens.com Inktober Sketchbook Summer ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 28, 2018
This time in the UX series I continue the topic of facilitating meetings, started a few posts ago in UX for All Part 5 - Why Care About Being a Facilitatator . Here are more thoughts on the principles and habits to consider how you can actively help a group of collaborators connect and clarify ideas. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 27, 2018
As I started to make video games, I found a variety of things I learned even though I didn't finish those initial projects. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 26, 2018
It's My Party was a project about making it easy to send and manage responses to invitations. Here I reflect on it as one of those things I've shelved but maybe not permanently. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 26, 2018
In June 2018 I finished Two Pizza Team: In a Situation Called No Trash Talk, part one of my hypothesis that a game + comic will serve one another and an audience well. Here I describe the work I've done so far for the video game Two Pizza Team, part two of the comic+game hypthesis. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 24, 2018
Project Mountain Carver is a big project, incorporates all the things I do professionally, and has built into it ways to keep me encouraged during the long process of accomplishing multi-year-spanning goals. Related Links and Resources TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 23, 2018
Here I share my approach to recording my thoughts in audio form as a step to creating other documents. Related Links and Resources VLC media player Just Press Record ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 23, 2018
Continuing the UX #artsoundoff series, here I talk about how so much of what your design work is about is getting decisions to happen and to get the system/product/thing made. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 23, 2018
Being behind where I'd hoped to be with Art Soundoff is a good chance to think about strategies to keep working at the work instead of worrying about a number goal. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 23, 2018
A number of people I follow on social media and on podcasts do a great job talking about and exploring why they choose tools they use to create. Becca Hillburn, Krishna Sadasivam, and Dave Seah come to mind immediately. Here I wonder about the usefulness of experiment with talking about the gear I use. Related Links and Resources DICTOPRO V100 Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard Dave Seah | Investigative Designer SivamStudios: The Portal for Everything Krishna M. Sadasivam Nattosoup Studio Art and Proce...
Nov 23, 2018
Continuing the UX #artsoundoff series, here I talk about things you can make based on data, storytelling, presenting information and helping others be able to relate and participate in the design process. These things (documents, artifacts, deliverables) are forms of documenting designs and what you learn to support the designs. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 21, 2018
Wherein Kate asks me "what kinds of things do we do to support each other emotionally with creative projects?", we talk about getting and giving feedback, and creative accountability meanings. Related Links and Resources Art and Science Punks Kate Shields Stenzinger (@kateshieldsstenzinger) • Instagram photos and videos Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 17, 2018
In this update in the UX series I talk about priming in how it affects your research to learn about what you're making or even can affect you-yourself via what you experience frequently. Related Links and Resources 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) (8580001054513): Susan Weinschenk: Books The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - Kindle edition by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson. Availability heuristic...
Nov 17, 2018
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I talk about the talisman I carry in my pocket which is a metal stamped pair of words "compassion" and "completion". Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 17, 2018
In this update in the UX series I talk about how it's easy to want to jump to something complete in one big step yet it's less risky and likely faster to add a some steps. Related Links and Resources Human Centered Design Method Example - IDEO's Design Kit ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 14, 2018
Continuing the UX series I talk about how UX design can both be a deeply involved job with advanced practitioners and also UX design can be useful when in the hands of someone learning on the job. Related Links and Resources Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher...
Nov 14, 2018
