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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 between the laptop and mobile modes of work. Attached to this is a note of a conversation - which while solutioning user flows, animed to answer user experience aspects the conversation missed. Continue reading →
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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 much because I value work - in fact, I think as a concept, it’s not the right way to working thru it. But I do agree that “presence,” “coordination,” and “considerations” move differently than a clamshell keyboard/screen or single glass slab. Continue reading →
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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 behind the ball in learning. And yet while looking at the pace of practice/implementation/policy, there feels like a sense of being ahead. This felt crystallized best when asking around the question: “what’s the difference between security and a secure experience? Continue reading →
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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 at the same time rather than learning, growing, or even reducing the load of information and systems that are being managed or modernized. Am seeing in regulated spaces - or in spaces where companies are transitioning from older mindsets to an agile and trauma informed ones - a manifesting of missing building blocks to those people who are craftspersons. Continue reading →
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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 also have the Rabbit R1 on order), def wondering how to integrate such hardware/LLM approaches with Muse. Continue reading →
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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 Everysight Maverick Developer Edition glasses. Had plans on simply integrating these with the Apple Watch and then later to integrate them with a Bosch-motored ebike, but those plans have been really slow to come together. Continue reading →
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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 paraphernalia. There is the negotiation that the facilitator makes with the audience through affirmations and jokes, through summaries and bullet points. And all the wild the audience is making the same negotiation. Continue reading →
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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 role is recognizing then stewarding people and processes through those changes. You are one part giving them steps to actualize a vision which was set before them. Continue reading →
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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 Frame iteration to come in. After a few hiccups with resetting Monocle via its Noa app on a few devices, am back at letting it be something of an assistant in training. Continue reading →
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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 interactions, but just its colors, layout, and branding. For some, their landing of user experience begins at interviews and design thinking games, and ends at reports with tangible assets to hand off to someone else to implement so that the interviews and games could be restarted anew. Continue reading →
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