Articles

  • From Scope to Strategy to Tactics

    One of the more challenging aspects of this Avanceé initiative has been in taking some/most of the insights from engagements and distilling them into more widely understood content. Journaling from past experiences can be a heuristic to leverage. Without giving away any proprietary information, can … read more

  • Measuring Outcomes

    A friend asked, “how do you know what to measure?” My answer came with a caveat, “measuring only matters where outcomes are clear, shared, and honored.” We then talked about what it looked like to structure onboarding behaviors for new persons to a company or project team. We started not with … read more

  • Evolving Interactivity

    Some recent likes/connections sparked a memory… Many years back, a literal career ago, got a chance to share some penultimate thoughts and approaches to leveraging mobile and social connected tech in non-mainstream & theological contexts (👋🏾 Global Recordings Network, Mission Aviation … read more

  • Affordances and Sustainable Product Interfaces

    Posted in the Muse Discord (5 June 24) Every time I click the three dots (usually to change the title or do the connector) and launch into the object versus get the menu,I wonder “what would Muse have evolved to if it didn’t have pointer/mouse affordances like this as a first interaction, but as a … read more

  • Fluidity in Adapting

    I often use the phrase “ahead and behind at the same time’ to describe what some have describe as my posture with tech/connected living. It is something of a backhanded comment to myself, hewn from the days when I wrote for BargainPDA/Brighthand. It means a feeling of being in front of a change, and … read more

  • Thinking Matter Expert

    Chatting w/a developer-manager and a data analyst about my Humane AiPin, and one of the phrases which came to the convo was that of a “thinking matter expert.” A spin on subject-matter-expert, and contextual to the sharpening of thinking which some of us prefer to see LLMs, GPTs, etc utilized … read more

  • Frameworks for Professional Development

    Many years back, and ironically while working in a space to improve the experience in using application management tools, delivered a presentation to a few groups of recruiters, then designers, based on a rubric I’d been working on. Beyond the Slideshow, circa 2018 After one of those presentations, … read more

  • Contemplative, Focused Computing

    Every time a new iPad is released, or iPadOS is updated, much of the conversation turns to “but can it replace your computer?” I haven’t liked that one bit… and haven’t just replaced laptop/desktop usages, I’ve done bits with its malleable, direct input canvas that (as Steve Jobs noted) fit in … read more

  • Back to Reconsidering Productivity Computing

    Years back, using mobile devices in various cafes led me to thinking and tinkering with what the accepted-normal was in regards to computers for productivity. I’m pushing thru some lessons regarding identity, security, and LLM/AI - finding this experimentation and exploration ignited afresh. Not so … read more

  • Developing ICAM Experiences As A Learning Canvas

    Learning and implementing a better and more secure experience pertaining to identity, credentialing, and access management has been something of a mild adventure. From reviewing the specifics of FIDO2, to attending a few security and identity workshops/conferences, there’s this sense I’m one part … read more

  • Designer’s Evolution

    Spending more time contextualizing the tooling and behaviors other functional units are supposed to have mastery of than manipulating the time/space/components/etc which unlock human capacity. Many times I’m fighting against this evolution because it means more of handling stubbornness and humility … read more

  • LLM/AI Hardware and Muse

    Over on the Muse Discord, shared some thoughts about it what LLM/AI hardware could look like to my Muse-infused working style. Sharing that here for some future exploration. LLM/AI Hardware and Muse - Discord 29 Mar As I am close to receiving my Ai Pin (and sorta of the assumption a few here might … read more

  • Stymied, or Not

    There’s this section of my Muse board (instance) that is nothing but a series of glasses and vision related experiments. Some of which are in various forms of being started or restarted. Others are in a shape of “maybe I should get working on that a little bit more.“ This is most true of the … read more

  • Negotiations With Audiences

    Attended a four hour workshop and was reminded about the tenuous relationship that facilitators have with their audiences. There is the implicit structure of a session where the facilitator is regarded as the subject matter expert. There is the handshake of greetings and slide decks or other … read more

  • Gateway

    For the past week have been sitting with the term “gateway.“ In part, a recollection of Gateway Computers (mid-90s to 2000s). Another part thinking about the types of transitional moments which happen as people, projects, and products evolve. For those in leadership roles, part of the “work” of your … read more

  • If At First You Don’t Succeed

    …figure out what you did to break things and get back on track. Am back at being able to get up to speed with the Monocle project by Brilliant Labs. Purchased this and seems like might have treated it, or its case, a bit roughly. Decided that it was worth repurchasing this while waiting for their … read more

  • Reshaping a Definition of UX

    Amongst the pieces of things this initiative has made evident, one of which has been a misunderstanding and misapplication of what it means to do, leverage, or even understand user experience (UX). For some, UX means the visual aesthetic- the user interface of a website, and not even the … read more

  • Vision Pro (Demo) Impressions

    Decided to do an impromptu trip to the closest Apple Store and demo the Apple Vision Pro. The following are my impressions before, during, and after completing the demo - not edited except to add links from the written/scribbles. Before the Demo Took some time to collect my thoughts around whether … read more

  • Been A Long Time Since Concepts

    Have been sitting today thinking about what’s been shared here and how there’s not been any conceptual bits shared in a long time. Part of that definitely due to NDA/NDA-type agreements. But also part of that due to much of the work isn’t about making a new (or refreshed view) of products. It has … read more

  • Always Refining the Contact Points

    Went to a brunch and didn’t have the NFC ring when it came time to swap contact info. But, due to a recent acquisition, do have a backup in the form of a QR code that’s on an NFC business card. However, things weren’t as polished coming from the business card as they are coming from the ring. So, … read more