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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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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 →
Connecting strategy & leadership with novel/innovative technologies
