Polytechnicast - Interactive Storyteller

What's sharable, useable, and useful to put in your portfolio? Your UX portfolio is an interesting challenge. Doing the work that leads to a credible conceptual foundation for a product or service doesn't always come with sharable artifacts to curate as a gallery in a portfolio. In any case, finding the story, the goals of your audience, and your goals is a place to consider your portfolio as a design problem. 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 Ro

Thinking about some things I've found helpful for building a useful shared understanding through conversations with your audience, your organization, and your team. Related Links and Resources Mental Models - Rosenfeld Media 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to p

Thinking about creativity, the label of being a creative, and the relationship between service and expression as a designer. Related Links and Resources LIA Cast 294 - UX, Obviously — Lean Into Art 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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 posi

Even though there's a few more days to go in this year's Art Soundoff creative challenge, I'm looking at my experience of this year's challenge asking what went well and what could be better. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play

This summer indie creator and publisher Jaques Nyemb shared and 8-episode fascinating thoughtful and fun micropodcast series called Slow Dooown. Each episode Jaques asks a question of the audience and in this episode of the Polytechnicast I share some replies and thoughts about collaborating, social presence, and being sustainably creative. Related Links and Resources Slow Dooown - art podcast by Jaques Nyemb JΛCQUΞS IN A BOX (@jnyemb) / Twitter 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

While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you drawing?" I describe some of the drawings I'm working on now and how they are based on holiday gifts I created last year. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn

While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you learning?" I share a few things I'm learning in both a business context and casual play context. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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

In a recent conversation I shared with someone that I can identify with being introverted though in recent years consider myself an ambivert. As I've noticed in previous conversations, the term ambivert is not as well known. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter -

At the start of a project I've already gathered things that help me commit. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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, co

I share a few options for my favorite tool and consider how I probably have a bunch of favorite things that help me with understanding, considering, and solving problems. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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 pos

I share an idea about making a game of exploring options and scenarios for combining different parts of a business to solve problems for the audience. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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

Thinking about how I get moving again on creative projects feels related to how I got stuck in the first place. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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

Continuing the UX for All series I talk about how the series is evolving beyond offering a starting point for UX tools. I describe four groups who each have goals that affect your UX design work: your audience, your organization, your team, and you. Then I describe some of the worthwhile conflict you can uncover through including all four and what might happen if you choose to avoid it. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, te

Two mini-worksheets I made recently in collaboration with Kate Shields Stenzinger help simplify describing the goals and projects you're working on. We call them the Intentional Planner Tools. The Goals and Actions planner is about reflection to help plan what's next combined with asking what you're big goals are for the next 5 years. Then the project concept and project status mini-worksheets help you collect those things you're building and sharing with the world and make it easy to describe why they're important to your audience. Both are available to download as PDFs. Related Links and Resources Download the Intentional Planner Tools Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experienc

My approach and steps I take for making very yummy baked tofu you can add to so many kinds of dishes or eat as-is. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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 naviga

Video games have been and continue to be an influential life long interest for me. In this Polytechnicast I talk about what I'm playing lately which includes some really old games. Related Links and Resources Bomberman '93 (TurboGrafx-16) Playthrough - NintendoComplete - YouTube Devil's Crush (TurboGrafx-16) Playthrough - NintendoComplete - YouTube Heroes - Overwatch 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games,

A few weeks back I noticed how I've developed a habit of moving past completing tasks big or small without celebrating and since then I've been talking with others about how they celebrate finishing things and doing some reflection on it all. In this Polytechnicast I share where I'm at so far with working on celebrating more. Related Links and Resources Tweet thread: How do you celebrate your accomplishments? Jerzy and Rob team up with the hosts of the Tell the Damn Story podcast, Alex Simmons and Chris Ryan, for a two-part discussion on writing, art, and finding your way through this endeavor of creating for an audience: Lean Into the Damn Story Crossover Event Part 1 and Lean Into the

Continuing the UX for All series, I describe attibutes to build into a team so it serves the needs of who's funding it, the audience it's helping, and the people who comprise it. 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 Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration 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

I finished a few spare time projects for Halloween this year: 8 props for me an my family's costumes. One project that caught my imagination and but didn't finish: my Halloween Tree. Related Links and Resources Halloween Projects Photo Gallery: Splatoon Inklings + Interactive Tree — Interactive Storyteller 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 Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and

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 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 prof