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AI As Accessibility Tooling
Do you need AI, or just a better memory? In some past engagements, one of the superpowers exercised has been that of relational-associative memory. Specifically, the power to remember the threads between decisions, even having some assets to remind others of those decisions. When one looks at the landscape for some of the uses of artificial intelligence, we see it being leveraged as a replacement for memory. That gets us down the line of asking if we are replacing the wrong aspects of ourselves with these tools, instead of using these tools to strengthen that muscle? Continue reading →
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Updates to the Everysight Maverick Experiment
The Everysight Maverick Developer Edition is a pair of augmented reality/heads up display (HUD) glasses, which were released in order to help the company establish a solid foundation with developers before commercial releases would happen. We purchased these in anticipation of understanding the hardware, getting some sense of its usability, and potentially working with the software development kit ((SDK)). this post serves as something of an update to the research, some of the lessons learned, and a bit of a wish list for this and similar products. Continue reading →
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Avanceé Articles in 2024 So Far
Theres a lot published in the way of articles and opinions. So, it makes good sense to give a breather to recap what’s been put forth. Jan 2024 Been A Long Time Since Concepts Always Refining the Contact Points Feb 2024 If At First You Don’t Succeed Reshaping a Definition of UX Vision Pro (Demo) Impressions March 2024 Negotiations With Audiences Gateway April 2024 Back to Reconsidering Productivity Computing Developing ICAM Experiences As A Learning Canvas Designer’s Evolution LLM/AI Hardware and Muse Stymied, or Not May 2024 Frameworks for Professional Development Contemplative, Focused Computing June 2024 From Scope to Strategy to Tactics Measuring Outcomes Evolving Interactivity Affordances and Sustainable Product Interfaces Fluidity in Adapting Thinking Matter Expert Continue reading →
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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 speak of an attempt to shift an executive view from day-to-day reactions, to scoping industry verticals/trends, towards proposing tactics shaped by known constraints and future trends. Continue reading →
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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 “here’s what the team needs you to know,” but with “here’s what your job description dictates what you can do, will support us in doing, and how we will support you. Continue reading →
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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 Fellowship). The keynotes and in-between conversations closed a chapter to a dozen years unpacking a mobile-heavy aspect of viewing connectivity, while opening my perspectives towards a multi-layered and spatially aware canvas. Continue reading →
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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 toggle-able feature.” Would this been as discoverable if it were a tap-hold menu (borrowing from iPadOS’s press-hold-wiggle that happens with icons on the Home Screen or the platform’s better understood (yet sometimes still hard to find) tap-hold menu? Continue reading →
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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 also behind well after it was adopted with all the bugs cleaned up, and UX settled. Continue reading →
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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 towards. We’d even chatted some in comparing it to the “thought leader” phrasing. “Thinking matter expert” feels similar and altogether different. Continue reading →
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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, felt as if that rubric became solid enough of a foundation to use in leadership roles, and with many who had a difficult time in quantifying the impact of focusing on design experience to specific persons and contexts. Continue reading →
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