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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

This last weekend I had what I call a "creative marathon" on the Two Pizza Team project. I share an update with where the project is at, tool choices, and what things I'll be working on next. Related Links and Resources Unity Creature Animation: Automated 2D Skeletal Animation Tool ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher

This time in the UX series I talk about how and why having principles and practices that help a group of people share and combine ideas is super important whether your project is just you and a client or you and a bunch of other collaborators. 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

Continuing the UX series, this time I talk about how and why the things you setup before people gather to work on something is important and useful to user centered design. 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

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I have Friend, Cartoonist and Teaching Artist Jerzy Drozd on to learn the story of what actually happened with an autographed birthday gift. Related Links and Resources - Jerzy Drozd - Cartoonist/Teaching Artist ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher

Wherein I continue my encouraging everyone to consider using UX related tools and skills. This time I describe how user experience design can take a variety of useful forms: goals, rationale, document, activity, story, hypothesis and most of all expressing ideas so others can participate. 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

Wherein I continue my encouraging everyone to consider using UX related tools and skills, this time I highlight user centered research. 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

If any discipline can be inclusive of people from all backgrounds it should be User Experience. Here I begin a series of posts about highlighting useful UX tools and skills. Also I invite anyone making something or part of a team that makes something for people to give the systemic human centered tools of UX a try. 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

Wherein I describe raw to fully cooked game engines and how I used my design constraints to choose a game engine for Two Pizza Team. 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

Here I talk about past game engines and tools I've used such as Director, HTML/Javascript, Flash, Corona SDK, Phaser that led me to be ready to choose a game engine for Two Pizza Team. 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

Wherein I continue some thoughts about kinds of video game side project commitments. Also I relate that to an interesting place I encountered that makes their own games, is also an arcade, and does games UX research at the very same venue. Related Links and Resources Twobitcircus ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher

Wherein I start one of my audio blogging categories for the month: making a videogame as a side project. 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

Wherein I introduce myself and share my hopes and fears for what I'd like to do with my posts for this year's Art Soundoff creative challenge. 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

Art Soundoff 2018 begins tomorrow, will you be joining in to listen, to capture your own art journal, or both? 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

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I have guest co-host Pete Stromquist with me to explore our approaches to keeping connected with our goals. In particular we dive into: how do we find ways to connect day to day and week to week with bigger goals? Also, how might we do this in a useful and not-too-intense way? And along the way we discuss physical tools and digital tools we use to help with goal tracking, journaling, and self-interviewing. Related Links and Resources The Emergent Task Planner | Dave Seah Unraveling workbook by Susannah Conway (self-interview resource mentioned on the show) The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It: Kelly McGonigal: 9781101982938: Amazon.com: Books Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life: Bill Burnett, Dave Evans: 9781101875322: Amazon.com: Books Post-it Super Sticky Easel Pad, 25 x 30 Inches, 30 Sheets/Pad, 2 Pads, Large White Premium Self Stick Flip Chart Paper, Super Sticking Power (559) : Post It Easel Pad : Office

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I look back at Art Soundoff 2017, some things I learned, some things I want to celebrate, and express gratitude for those who took part and tuned in to all the art journaling. 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

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I consider Net Neutrality and how an open internet has been so important for my career, my art and learning. Related Links and Resources A Lump of Coal in the Internet’s Stocking: FCC Poised to Gut Net Neutrality Rules | Electronic Frontier Foundation ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I explore the prompt "fitness", how has many areas of concern and how I'm inconsistent about it. 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

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I consider two ways framing expectations helped, one seemed fairly straight forward, the other less so. Related Links and Resources Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck | Goodreads Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend | TED Talk | TED.com The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal | Goodreads ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher

In this episode of the Polytechnicast I take note of an assumption I had about my Art Soundoff recordings this year. 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