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A Lab and A Future
Most things shared here are small notes and threads amongst topics others are talking about. But what about when others aren’t talking? Well, we are creating a research and (experimentation) development and laboratory of sorts. For a long time, the primary means of being able to explore and exploit the edges of what is happening has relied on reading, low-budget tech acquisitions, and many friendly conversations (so many thanks over the years) enabling a lot of smart and forward-thinking items. Continue reading →
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Agility and Shape Things
It’s often a topic sits in the mind long enough to become something to write about. This is again one of those times. Conversations reigniting agile (the project management methodology) have often found itself in direct opposition to UX (governance, research, etc) once again. And this isn’t wrong. The two don’t get along in part due to a misappropriation of what agility means. If we see “agility” in a context apart from “Agile Management”, we might be better able to understand why some design-focused folks seem to run their own path. Continue reading →
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Post-Twitter Discourse
There’s a lot of possibilities (Mastadon, Discord, Gas, Snap, etc). But, if you know me, I tend to be a tick ahead. Not one to jump on anything, am quite deliberate with play and experiments. Often times nearing the edge of what’s popular for a moment before it dies, am sometimes also behind the crowd. So what/where is seen beyond Twitter? Besides more folks doing Substack/LinkedIn/email newsletters? This The protocol behind Damus is what’s most appealing. Continue reading →
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Reviewing Avanceé’s 2022 Research and Experiments
Around this time of the year, we revisit some of the research and experiments which have been a part of the ongoing development of Avanceé. Often talked to lightly, but frame a good bit of what becomes the insights and lessons shared with (incoming and potential) clients. The following is a small summary of some of these. For a lens into past experiments: 2021’s Report 2020’s Report All caught up? Continue reading →
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Thought Experiment: Excitement in an OS
The other week, a tweet asked: Are you a computer software professional and unhappy with your workstation OS If a brand new OS shipped tomorrow, what about it would make you excited? This was such an excellent topic, that it went into the drafts last week, and some work towards some more thoughts and perspectives. More Depth in Inputs Going away from the scribbles to usually use to describe this. Continue reading →
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An Analogy of Presence
Watching young ones with connectivity is always a lesson. You might see them being distracted, or mindlessly entertained. I see them as navigating multiple realities without a sense of the boundaries of bias or manners. Younger family members have been doing a thing where I’m put on FaceTime while they are doing something else. There’s sometimes silence when they are doing one thing, but I’m present. Others think or see this as “why aren’t you talking while on the phone? Continue reading →
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Homeostasis As Normal
What if productivity is getting to the point (or maybe knowledge work, or any kind of work for that matter) of establishing homeostasis as the normal state, and disorganized, stress, entropy, whatever you wanna call it as the abnormal? If this was the case, would we be looking at the concept of “weekend“ or “vacation“ in the same context that we currently do? Or, would work begin to take on a deeper meaning than simply “doing enough to survive. Continue reading →
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Design’s Credibility
While listening to Charles Barkley on the Draymond Green podcast, he brings up an interesting point regarding credibility. Paraphrasing: it doesn’t matter how an active player views something that’s happening in the league, but they have to tell the truth in such a way which doesn’t rip the player, but addresses the behavior. Charles goes on to use “he had a bad game,“ as an example. Because the player probably had a bad game that night, it doesn’t mean the player is horrible, the person is horrible, etc. Continue reading →
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Platform Semantics
Do I need to care about their platforms? This is a question often asked before going into certain types of training and consulting sessions. Part of this comes from a major disconnect in the workspaces others use. It only matters when brought in for some specific feature. But, also comes out when the thing needed isn’t the feature, but some kind of output the feature creates. Often, the output isn’t very unique, it’s a report or summary of what’s valuable or important. Continue reading →
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Independence and Superstition
Around this time of the year, many in the USA celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, cookouts, parades, and other festive moments. And yet, you can also see around the enterprise America’s own version of Independence Day celebrations. Everything from giving folks an additional day off, to introducing software platforms which reduce friction in workloads, to the on-boarding of summer interns and prime tasks. In many ways, independence has become just as much attention to faith of what it has become as it is a behavior to recognize a specific tradition. Continue reading →
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