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Avanceé Reads for 24 June 22 🔗
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@charmcitygavin Tour Dem Parks was fun with the Brommie. A few friends also joined with theirs; was almost the perfect bike for the ride.
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@manton it would have been fine to be a “pro” feature if the demo showed such a use case clearly (for example, iMove/Garage Band and using the extended screen to do multi-track editing; or Zoom/WebEx/Teams presenting a deck in presentation/speaker view, w/Center Stage being shown).
The lack clarity came across louder to me than the devices which didn’t get it. Well, that and it not replacing the multitasking view. Lots of muddle
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@manton the want for Stage Manager across all iPads can be looked at as a failure of Apple to previously delegate certain hardware and software features to Pro models. They did this with ProMotion, and even with the Pencil. Portrait mode was another feature. But for the most part, Apple hasn’t done a great job of designating “pro” usecases, versus personal-enough computing.
However, if in those who are asking for a neutered version of Stage Manager are doing so because Apple misconstrued (a) premise of the iPad as personal-enough computing, then it probably needs to be Apple fixing their messaging about iPad and iPad Pro, not simply making backwards compatibility a means for it to middle the message further.
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Sensemaking: Learning and Working
To some of us, “sensemaking” isn’t work. It’s an adventure… a self-fueled, sometimes even self-directed, path of disco... -
Avanceé Reads for 17 June 22 🔗
Also published: Thoughts on iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager -
Thoughts on iPadOS 16’s Stage Manager
Furthering some thoughts from last week’s Apple WWDC presentation of iPadOS 16 and Stage Manager. First, the thoughts on... -
@charmcitygavin absolutely love it. Is beyond solid for commuting, but for nice chill rides it’s a party-pace kinda ride. Travels extremely well (I do it on the train often). And personalizing is a mild addiction. Pricey? Yea. But not unbearably so IMO
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@charmcitygavin awww. Yep, will be rolling on my Brompton
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Avanceé Reads for 10 June 22 🔗
A good bit more ink and thoughts on this one than the usual. Normally, leaving the arrangement of links is enough to con... -
Avanceé Reads for 27 May 22 🔗
Also published: Maturity Beyond Management Links collected using the newly launched Muse 2.0 (see release at Product Hun... -
Maturity Beyond Management
Recent conversations about change and technology with those who are directly implementing and interacting with what’s ch... -
Avanceé Reads For 20 May 22 🔗
Also published: Comfort, Friction Chatting w/a UX designer (friend) recently who is looking at professional/career p... -
Comfort, Friction
Been doing this thing a little bit more frequently lately where when people are asking what Avanceé is, a demonstration ... -
Avanceé Reads for 13 May 22 🔗
Also published: Data Analysis is Weird Of note, this week’s share of the Muse board comes from the upcoming Muse 2.0 rel... -
Data Analysis is Weird
Something of an “off the cuff” title to this, but in thinking about a few items which have been in the inbox lately, it ... -
Avanceé Reads for 6 May 22 🔗
Also posted: Some Truths About Design Analogy of A Few Dead Evergreens -
Some Truths About Design
What are some things which may be true about design that seem to be ignored or looked over? Could there be truths about ... -
Avanceé Reads for 28 April 22 🔗
Also published: Q1 2022 Article Summaries -
Q1 2022 Avanceé Article Summaries
Running off to quieter platforms is often a decent way to make a distinct sound amongst the others. However, until tract... -
Avanceé Reads for 22 April 22 🔗 🌎🌍🌏
There’s probably something that connects the “22” of today along with Earth Day. Certainly, the reads for this past week... -
Design As Anti-Career
Some folks don’t want to hear the truth. Some want you to placate their expectations until you are no longer of good use... -
Avanceé Reads for 15 April ‘22 🔗
Also published: Disabling Conversations -
Disabling Conversations
While establishing this initiative, several conversations about its purpose and validity have come about. Often, these c... -
Avanceé Reads for 8 April ‘22 🔗
Also published: Artifacts of the Future For other channels, posted an aggregate of the past four months of articles (mi... -
Artifacts of the Future
Since the late winter of 2020, I have moved from an automobile to a multi-modal-centeric view of transportation. Bolster... -
Work Flows Smarter
The deadbolt has been a long running part of many home doors. And more prevalent in those middle class communities where... -
A View of Tomorrow
Sometimes we look at the future as something so far off that it’s almost unimaginable. But what happens when we look at ... -
Avanceé Reads for 18 Feb 22 🔗
A late posting, for a few reasons. But probably timing doesn’t really matter until it does 🤔 -
Avanceé Reads for 11 Feb 22 🔗
Also published: Design’s Dialects -
Design’s Dialects
Across a few previous projects, one shape of deliverable was a data dictionary, or some type of subject-genre lexicon. T... -
Avanceé Reads for 4 Feb 22 🔗
Also published: One-Buttons Successes -
One-Button Successes
“Can you help me just get this process down to where I can click one button and it does what I need?” There’s an anxiety... -
Avanceé Reads for 28 Jan 22 🔗
Also published: Sharpening A Few Arrows Read other articles here. -
Sharpening A Few Arrows
Have been encouraged over the past few weeks with several conversations about what this initiative is about. Into that e... -
Avanceé Reads for 21 Jan 22 🔗
Also published: Three Leg Table -
Three Leg Table
Over the course of many years of mentoring and coaching, there’s been a common axiom shared with folks to help them iden... -
Avanceé Reads for 14 Jan 22 🔗
New year and the reading, linking, threading, and thematic interludes continue. One of the more fascinating aspects of l... -
Podcast: Theology and the Metaverse
The other week, got a chance to hang with an old friend Nigel Scott (@ExCapite) on his new podcast conversations space W... -
A Bit Off the Cuff
Over the past many weeks, have had several conversations, and really insightful pieces of wisdom from various persons, a... -
Notable Reads for 2021 🔗
A year of things read, things shared. With a neat bonus of a piece not shared. Really appreciate the enhancement to Muse... -
Avanceé Reads for 24 Dec 21 🔗
Honestly didn’t think there’d be anything for publishing this week; but, am always reading, and there’s always something... -
Avanceé Reads for 17 Dec 21 🔗
Also published: Identifying the Necessity of Opportunity -
Identifying the Necessity of Opportunity
Part of the market space in which Avanceé plays is within the civic tech space. Civic tech, or the technologies and serv... -
Avanceé Reads 10 Dec 21 🔗
Also published: Figuring Out A Future -
Figuring Out A Future
In dedicating more of a focus to Avanceé, there’s been a good bit of resetting the plate which has happened across sever... -
Avanceé Reads 3 Dec 21 🔗
Also published: Of 2021 Experiments and Ruminations -
Of 2021’s Experiments and Ruminations
This has been an interesting year in regards to various experiments. In some respects, these experiments are a testament... -
Avanceé Reads 26 Nov 21 🔗
Also this week: What Does A Fractional Executive Do / Avanceé’s Fractional Services Offering -
What Does A Fractional Executive Do?
In the recent attention towards Avanceé, one area of interest has been in shaping “fractional executive services.“ Thoug... -
Avanceé Reads 19 Nov 21 🔗
Also this week: Expectations and Boundaries -
Expectations and Boundaries
_Responded to an insightful post on LinkedIn which Dr. Richard Claydon asks about challenges related to going back to th... -
Avanceé Reads 12 Nov 21 🔗
Also this week, Dark Patterns Are Decisions. -
Dark Patterns Are Decisions
Dark Patterns Are Decisions In a recent conversation regarding design governance and operations, the topic of managing d... -
Avanceé Reads 5 Nov 21 ✍🏽🔗
Also this week: Structuting and Shaping DesignOps -
Structuring & Shaping DesignOps
Over the past few months, a series of conversations regarding design operations (DesignOps) has been gaining steam in so... -
Tymbals’s Series on Trust
Our friend at Tymbals has been back at it, (re)publishing a series of posts on the impact of AI, Blockchain and Digital ... -
Avanceé Reads 22 Oct 21 🔗
Missing the Reddit convo about NPM being compromised, but all the other fun reads are as normal -
Token Innovation
Digital transformation Modernization Lane Minimalist There are many terms and fads which make their way through enterpri... -
Avanceé Reads 24 Sept 21 🔗 ✍🏾
Also published Wellness As Future Value -
Wellness As Forward Value
For the past weeks, have been staring a friend’s business card who is involved in the wellness sector. What’s most inter... -
Sensemaking
Today seems to have been a continual gospel about sensemaking. In its most basic definition, sensemaking is the method o... -
Avanceé Reads 6 Aug 21 🔗📝
Article: Ambient Computing Canvses -
Ambient Computing Canvases
What if tablets are the canvas for ambient computing behaviors; not an analogous replacement for laptop/desktop/mobile’s... -
Slowness of Competence
One of the challenges found when involved in transforming organizations is this analysis of the friction, or speed, whic... -
Avanceé Reads 23 July 🔗
Well, that was embarrassing. Trying to post directly from Muse via screenshot didn’t seem to work -
Blank Slate
Looking at the notebook, the calendar Blank slate Am comparing to the previous endeavor maybe a bit too much. Used to wr... -
🖋 Speculative Fiction: OIF Agent
Elements in this come from an existing project; however, nothing from said project or persons involved is directly menti... -
Advanced Tools, Or Advancing Thinking
A shape of some of the work which has framed what’s become Avanceé includes over a decade of corporate training. This tr... -
Avanceé Reads 28 May 🔗
Wonder how Muse’s 1.7 Update will affect these shares in future posts -
Lessons and Opportunities
There’s been some decent attention in the past few weeks to Avanceé (for good reason), and some of the resulting convers... -
Contemplation
Digital Transformation… Manipulation or Decision? Needs more fleshing out… but feels a right direction to peel -
Avanceé Reads 16 April 21 ✍🏾🔗
No scribbles this week. After last week’s mini-vacation from all the things was just good enough to keep a few notes for... -
From A Future 2021 (#FaF21): Discussions and Discovery on Protopian Themes
Excited to have participated once again with the From A Future discussion/conference. An extremely multi-medium conferen... -
Where Have the Articles Gone?
No, really where have the articles gone? They really haven’t gone anywhere. It’s been more case of just collecting topic... -
DTD #2021Resolutions
Do great work Tell your story Deliver great customer service – #2021Resolutions -
2020 Reflection and Rollup
Created w/Muse for iPad -
Lenses (Explanation v1)
Been chewing on the pictured concept a bit more the past few months. Thinking through this concept of lenses as a kind o... -
Mis-Definition of Polymaths
While some others are waking slowly from their feasting over the past day(s), am back on the pedals so to speak. Back at... -
Updating A Few Experiments
The pace of posting here has certainly slowed down from the first years. In part due to activities outside of this ventu... -
Experiments with GoTenna Mesh
Many years back, in a previous endeavor, had looked into the potential and promise of mesh networking and decentralized ... -
Scribble and the Challenge of Input
On this, the day after the release of iPadOS 14, am engaging in a bit of an experiment to see how far and wide the Scrib... -
Essential skills for Knowledge Workers
Was listening to a podcast recently by the good folks at Muse and the wheels started turning when they started speaking ... -
Thinking...
Thinking… A lot about the process of thinking (deep thought, collaborative, synthesis, research, or experimentati... -
Focals & Optical Wearable Challenges
There’s something a bit rough and almost ironic about hearing about optical wearable companies no longer going forward. ... -
WWDC and Frameworks
Still trying to come up with some collective thoughts that makes sense around WWDC. But, the fact of the matter is, as m... -
Electricity’s Equivalent to Plastic
The rise of the eBike. More specifically, a return to the electric bicycle and electronic propulsion as a widely availab... -
Transformation from Middle Management to Automation
Was talking with a former client recently on the topic of about the transformation that is happening within their compan... -
The Interdependency of (Social) Media
If it is not clear already, our relationship with media (broadcast, social, and otherwise) is quite complicated. Often, ... -
LMGTFY
There is always a level of snark when looking at acronyms constituting various attitudes and responses this day and age.... -
Invaluable Tools for New Thinking
Looking back over 20+ years of various entrepreneurial and employee pursuits, a common theme of innovation and inventive... -
Lessons from Mobile on Medium
Have been writing for a long time. And it seems as if every few years that writing shifts a paradigm or two. Before micr... -
Why Keyboards Remain
I figured it out… sort of (thoughts while reading MacStories Apple Magic Keyboard First Impressions) The “why key... -
Is Omni Workspace > Remote Workstation
Many knowledge workers have been relegated to working remotely against the foreground (many Zoom) meetings and attempts ... -
Distributed Work, Flows
As many companies are beginning to understand what they can and cannot do in regards to a distributed workforce, it is a... -
The Parlee Cycles and Toyota Prius Project
Reposting from my personal blog — from 2011 — with a few small edits because it’s a view remembered and maybe worth expl... -
Going To, Putting On
Is it really a relationship, or something different Ruminating on the recently announced update for iPad devices (iPadOS... -
Wearable Awareness
For the past week, have been comparing the use of smart ring (Ōura) and a mood ring. In many respects, both of these dev... -
Notable Reads for 20 Mar 🔗
Haven’t published the “Notable Reads” series at all this year. Part of that being a bit less disciplined in the end of w... -
Gravel Bike Stroll 🕶 📹
Posting a bit different than the usual, a video of one of my latest bike rides. Some call it “gravel,” and some prefer t... -
Leap
As appropriate a day as any other to speak on how to move forward. Leap days could probably be better termed corrective ... -
Strategies of Long-Term Goals
Breaking down how an ant eats an elephant On a current project, a comment was made, “you are playing chess while others ... -
Founding Principles
Where a rogue comment about USA history invokes computational evolutions A friend mentioned about the changing ideals th... -
Evolving the iPad Workspace
Perhaps what was admired as a teen drives adulthood after all This could probsbly be considered a response to @brooksre... -
From A Future
Things seem to be a little bit slow in terms of the new publishing here, but the fact of the matter is that activities h... -
Hearing Sight
Casting new patterns for a new year The past two years, Avanceé has been something of an experiment, and another part a ... -
Notable Reads for 14 Dec 🔗
This time last week, didn’t intend on writing another one of these composed link lists. But, it’s a behavior now associa... -
Inking As Post
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Notable Reads for 7 Dec 🔗
Reflecting on the week, there’s a lot which can theme it. But, an overwhelming sense from others is a sense of tiredness... -
Notable Reads for 29 Nov 🔗
While part of the world yells for redemption, another part aims to grab monetary redemption from feelings ascribed to ho... -
Debating A Slight Shift
When Avanceé launched, it was like finally finding shape to the bottom of a very deep well. That well being a mind and s... -
Notable Reads for 22 Nov 🔗
Was going to theme this around some design concepts, but it occurs that a better topic is that of silence. Or, more spec... -
Notable Reads for 17 Nov 🔗
Reading this weekend a few Kindle samples, and there’s one which has made enough of an impression to consider the full r... -
Reviewing Vue’s Bone Conduction Glasses
After several weeks, impressions of an open letter type It’s been about a month since attaining the Vue glasses — a Kick... -
Notable Reads for 8 Nov 🔗
Added an iPad Mini 5 & Pencil to the toolset recently and it’s actually made for much quieter sessions for evening a... -
Notable Reads for 1 Nov 🔗
Have been away once again. This time because of physical moments. Seasons changing does some interesting, yet humbling, ... -
Ear Muscles
Leveraging newly acquired Vue glasses to explore other ranges of hearing Been sitting on how to best talk about these gl... -
Notable Reads for 19 Oct 🔗
Probably should not do more apologies. And yet a present situation has made for a cadence disruption that probably isn’t... -
Indigenous
Persuading a designer’s shift from “intuitive” to “indigenous” Tearing a perspective from history in order to reclaim a ... -
Visibility, Consistency
Impact isn’t just visibility, but the impression massaged by consistency In a previous draft of this post, there was a r... -
Notable Reads for 4 Oct 🔗
For one reason or another, felt like waiting until the end of the day to share what has been impactful in reading. Impac... -
On Prioritization
When you get into a consistent mode of behaviors and then life gets in the way, you start the journey again by making an... -
Notable Reads for 27 Sept 🔗
The arrival of fall… a resetting of clocks in so many ways. Where the summer was laden with perhaps a slower, res... -
Chronophobia
Term comes from the book Timefullness… fear of time and it’s effects Can remember the moment clearly. Was sitting... -
Notable Reads for 21 Sept 🔗
Wrapped up into a new context and the usual Friday has turned into a late Saturday. Perhaps, it’s because this new conte... -
Explaining A Bicycle for the Mind
A bicycle for the mind requires a different perspective and disruption A common question asked around this time last yea... -
Notable Reads for 13 Sept 🔗
As good a theme for the week’s reads as any. From @yourgirlSylv: There are lots of different kinds of disabilities in t... -
Remote, Control
Pondering a future of knowledge work, managing flow not controlling it Thinking about a few recent projects, and a few f... -
Notable Reads for 6 Sept 🔗
Communicating clarity is not exactly easy. There’s the perspective we have, and then there is the perspective of others.... -
Notable Reads for 30 Aug 🔗
Another week in the books, and yet labor seems to continue. Still processing what it means in the context of a week spen... -
Trendspotting
Moving forward by looking backward When learning to drive, my parents gave me a lot of solid info about dealing with wha... -
Notable Reads for 23 Aug 🔗
The distance between faith and worry… or what’s found in a proposal meeting’s questions. The two states really ar... -
Friction Has A Perspective
Perhaps innovation’s perspective is bound by personal friction One discussion often turns into many. It is excellent whe... -
Notable Reads for 16 Aug 🔗
Sitting down to write and on the window is an insect I’d not seen before. Not a spider, just six legs. And yet, I’m more... -
Organizational Maturity
Happenstance or happen to have a stance Reviewing some older notes on organizations and user experience, came across a f... -
Notable Reads for 9 Aug 🔗
Rest and recovery… or something like that. For one reason or another, you can’t seem to slow down until your body... -
Project: Masala.AI Branding Exploration
Project: Masala.AI Branding Exploration -
15 Minutes to Add Time
Describing an experimental workshop and a focused destination In a few recent conversations about the goals for Avanceé,... -
Notable Reads for 2 Aug 🔗
Cycles… everything seems to happen in cycles. None of these are all that spectacular in and of themselves, but we... -
Mental Knots
Reading a piece about totems and tantrums, was reminded of a term heard once before — mental knots. Basically, when peop... -
Notable Reads for 26 Jul 🔗
Perhaps it is a good thing to have talent to shape a workspace. Companies which figure it out call it culture. But, entr... -
Future Isn’t Far Enough
New headlines, not faster ones Some years ago, attempting to take more control over an online footprint, decided to put ... -
Notable Reads for 19 Jul 🔗
Climate and weather are increasingly the points of topic in the northern hemisphere. Sure, part of it is due to the unco... -
Senses of Approaches
Many approaches, just as there are many senses Having been involved with connected technology since the late 90s, there ... -
Notable Reads for 12 Jul 🔗
Uncharacteristicly quiet this week. Or, more like listening to what others are/aren’t doing in this space more intensly ... -
Notable Reads for 5 July 🔗
Independence. Given the celebration of such for the USA, it’s helpful to stay on theme so to speak. And yet, so much abo... -
Advocacy Transactions
Not the pioneer, but the ones who follow, who create the roads Speaking with a few “coffee office mates” about cycling a... -
Links for 29 June 🔗
Late? Or elite? Part of the reason for things being later than usual, that is the posting of this weeks links, is becaus... -
Technical Literacy As Currency
Every org is a tech org, every tech is it’s currency In some engagements, the product is simply to raise the floor of a ... -
Notable Reads for 22 Jun 🔗
Thought about publishing the weekly links earlier since Friday was quite packed. But, it made sense to wait a bit. There... -
Connectivity As Wellness
When connectivity is wellness A few conversations recently about connectivity and what it means to be well had sparked s... -
Notable Reads for 14 June 🔗
Persistence… for those to whom media has or hasn’t given them attention, there’s the swelling of persistence. For... -
Lessons of Incomplete Design
Less “Finished” and More “What Else Is There” Not every project ends in a beautiful design. Better said, not every proje... -
Notable Reads for 7 June 🔗
What happens when you start thinking about what you can do now and start concentrating a little bit more towards the hor... -
Unstructured/Structured WWDC19 Keynote Thoughts
Unstructured thoughts on Apple’s 2019 WWDC Keynote Did not intend to sit down and write this, so am using Siri dictation... -
Challenges Not Challenging
Not every challenge is challenging One of the most difficult concepts to get across in the middle of the sales process i... -
Notable Reads for 31 May 🔗
Finding and synthesizing readings when the months slow down into heat of summer tends to be a little difficult. Not beca... -
Flashback: June ‘18
June of last year (2018) was an interesting month. Felt like there was a shift which needed to be taken with the content... -
Innovation by Enterprise’s Need
Deftly turning a large ship with a whisper With some clients, the topic of organizational change comes up very often. Th... -
Notable Reads for 24 May 🔗
Writing a forward for an upcoming book and was impressed to think about the contexts of love, lust, and loss. Sounds com... -
Notable Reads for 18 May 🔗
There is a hashtag-day holiday almost every day it seems. Sometimes, these days seem nothing more than the commercializa... -
Flashback: May 2018 🔗
Last week was a flashback to the posts shared last year (April 2018). For this week, it’s a look at what was shared a mo... -
Efficiency and Sufficiency
There’s a pattern to each week here. The long-post to start the week is both summary and launching. Then something in th... -
Notable Reads for 10 May 🔗
Perhaps it is more about paying attention to what matters for most people. What matters are the smaller bits. The digest... -
Flashback to April 18
Flashbacks to what talked about on the site a year ago: Long-Form Thoughts Paying Attention Conversatoins On Creating N... -
Tooling Between Communicating & Designing
Wondering why design tools have been reluctant to evolve Conversations about design methods and software often bracket t... -
Notable Reads for 3 May 🔗
Each week, looking back over what has been an influential read is something of a joy and a hurdle. It’s a joy because th... -
Ethical UX As a Social/Security Vector
Bending UX to see other vectors of organizational ethics A friend and I joked about a photo sent to him. He asked about ... -
Notable Reads for 26 Apr
Paradigm shifts are interesting. Usually, we don’t recognize there has been a change until after the changes happened. B... -
What I Do Exactly
A common question grants a canvas to an uncommon answer: ”So what exactly do I/does Avanceé do?” Heard somewhat often be... -
Notable Reads for 19 Apr
To be mindful or to be inspired? That’s where aspects of the week land when we talk of themes. Perhaps that is not a bad... -
On Collaborative Products
Collaborative software is validated through collaborative experiences before its individual features One of the challeng... -
Notable Reads for 12 Apr 🔗
As mentioned earlier this week, wanted to get back to letting the notable links/reads of the week sit on this pattern. I... -
Back to Reflect
Some weeks back, started to share notable reads as a daily, rather than weekly supplement. And while this was a good ide... -
Notable Reads for 4 Apr 🔗
Moving back to the weekly share next week. Noticed a few things effected by the lack of better curation, especially from... -
Notable Reads for 3 Apr 🔗
Opinion | Why It’s So Easy for a Bounty Hunter to Find You - The New York Times Read at 11:13 PM Heaven or High Water &... -
Notable Reads for 2 Apr 🔗
Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213 - YouTube Read at 9:45 PM How the US has hidden i... -
Notable Reads for 1 Apr 🔗
Started to just skip the links for yesterday given the various pranks. A later sharing of the non-prank reads makes sens... -
Notable Reads for Mar 30 and 31 🔗
Notable Reads for Mar 30 How Apple Card works – TechCrunch Read at 11:44 PM Steven Sinofsky on Twitter: “1/ Pre-a... -
Notable Reads for 28 Mar 🔗
Garfield phones beach mystery finally solved after 35 years - BBC News Read at 6:57 PM Job vacancies | Nuffield Foundat... -
Notable Reads for 27 Mar 🔗
Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge Read at 9:56 PM AiriPods | Asymco Read at 9:31 PM A Dollar Will Take You Less Than... -
Notable Reads for 26 Mar 🔗
Exploration vs Exploitation | Noah Brier dot Com Read at 11:05 PM Another tax on the poor: Surrendering privacy for sur... -
Notable Reads for 25 Mar 🔗
Google Stadia Is a Net Neutrality Nightmare – Variety Read at 10:13 PM OpenStax Read at 10:03 PM “I didn’t have c... -
Notable Reads from 23 & 24 Mar 🔗
Notable Reads from 24 Mar Why the Olympic Games Are Steering Clear of E-Sports Read at 9:22 PM Man stole $122m from Fac... -
Starting from Convo
Building a design ethos, one conversation at a time In talking with people about Avanceé, one of the questions that come... -
Notable Reads for 22 Mar 🔗
Manton Reece (@manton) Read at 1:19 PM Trusting Driverless Cars - Library - Google Design Read at 1:04 PM Opinion | Own... -
Notable Reads for 21 Mar 🔗
Harvard sued by descendant of U.S. slave photographed in 19th century Read at 10:08 PM How the iPad Pro is CHANGING mus... -
Notable Reads for 20 Mar 🔗
When Your Body Says No | Outside Online Read at 11:27 PM Stop trying to solve traffic and start building great places R... -
Notable Reads for 19 Mar 🔗
Designing digital products for bioinformatics — Part II Read at 2:48 PM STRIKE! Magazine — On the Phenomenon of Bullshi... -
Notable Reads for 18 Mar 🔗
People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest | Science News Read at 11:28 PM Just enjoy the ride – Stev... -
Notable Reads for 17 Mar 🔗
Elon Musk: the Architect of Tomorrow— Rolling Stone Read at 10:15 PM Musk: Osborning His Model 3 – Monday Note Read at ... -
Notable Reads for 16 Mar 🔗
Can cars deliver micromobility? Read at 10:35 PM Leighton Cusack on Twitter: New project I’m working on: t.co/IWVcPAds9... -
Notable Reads for 15 Mar 🔗
In the midst of putting this together, got into a conversation about parents vs parenting. The approach of fostering wha... -
Reflecting on ‘19 So Far
Usually, the middle of the week has been used to share concepts or lingering sketches for current or past projects. Felt... -
Deep Thought Paradigm: Workspace
Further ruminations on the specifics of “deep thought” paradigms in a workspace Weird the things which cause a rekindlin... -
Notable Reads for 8 Mar
It was almost written like a “poor me” metronome. That look back over the week which wasn’t as successful as hoped. Whic... -
Notable Read for 6 Mar
Simply because this could not wait for Friday’s collection. Feels like it’s too important of a topic to the @microdotblo... -
Auditing the Peculiar ID/UX Setup
Documenting and adutiing a peculiar (to some) way of working in the interaction design/user experience space When using ... -
Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei
Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei Probably a good thesis for @microdotblog as well as a note of caution and hope for success -
Notable Reads for 1 Mar 🔗
Looking at one of the last snowfalls of the season out of the window, am reminded of there always being just a little bi... -
Concept: On-Demand Disability Transit App
Concept: On-Demand Disability Transit App -
Unshapen and Focused
Being thrust back to the future of unshapen mobiles and their implications Spent a nice day recently, conversing with ot... -
Notable Reads for 22 Feb 🔗
Fast and slow. A reminder of the cold of winter, the persistence of bias, and the surprise of ingenuity. These swings ar... -
Simply Perspective
Using perspective of the future to communicate a simply, accessible present Living in a space where there’s some freedom... -
Notable Reads for 15 Feb
Resonance… That word spoke to what kept coming back towards this week. Not simply because resonance is both noun ... -
Reviewing Concepts
Taking some time today to review a few past concepts. The ideation that led to these (and a few others) could use some r... -
Human Factors of Efficiency
Perspectives of humane factors for defining efficiency Long before Avanceé was a clear concept, work was a series of sup... -
Notable Reads for 8 Feb 🔗
Pattens can provoke actions. The provocation can seem as if it is elongating friction, or pointing to a diminishing infl... -
Tuning the CIO
Tuning aspects of the CIO position into temporary, effective leadership Looking back at a recent project, part of the an... -
Notable Reads for 1 Feb 🔗
Throughly enjoy those moments where there’s a cross-pollination of experiences and talents. There’s something about gett... -
Simplicity Then Forward
Staring with simplifying as identifying how forward In the past weeks, Avanceé has had conversations with companies havi... -
Notable Reads for 24 Jan 🔗
The are times when it is suitable to be reminded that aspects of connected technologies do or dont’t move so fast. Am re... -
Notable Reads for 18 Jan 🔗
Some challenges are harder than others. When in the midst of significant change, the challenge to maintain one’s bearing... -
Shortcuts and the Challenge of Flow
The use of Apple Shortcuts and an ability to maintain “flow states” of productivity on iOS When talking about productivi... -
Notable Reads for 11 Jan 🔗
2019 is off and running — so to speak. Challenges in the USA with budgets and government shutdowns notwithstanding, ther... -
Scribbling Notes Towards Refined Abilities
Could going about sharing digitally using an analog analogy unveil the better AI There’s something “rough” about the way... -
Notable Reads for 4 Jan 🔗
Bringing in the new year with a slight rebranding of the week’s links 🔗🔖, now called Notable Reads. And if all works out... -
Avanceé in 2018: Articulating Focus
2018 was the first year for Avanceé. With new initiatives, there is usually a specific product or problem statement spri... -
Links for 2018
Just about every week in 2018, Avanceé shared a selection of links which stuck out amongst the noise. Some of these high... -
Links for 21 Dec
The way this part of the season has developed, one is supposed to take inventory of the year, admonish themselves for ma... -
Deep Thought As A UI Paradigm
Avanceé has elevated many discussions and topics throughout this first year. Much of this is overflow from projects, but... -
Links for 12 Dec
Per the usual cadence of this time of year, certain newsbits slow down, projects find their way into a quieter reverb, a... -
Resource: The Field Study Handbook
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Experimental World Design
There are those who invent the future before its imagined… that happens here too In one of the reads highlighted ... -
Links for 8 Dec
Better late than never? Or, better next than never? Sometimes, the framing we have for what we want to do and what’s bee... -
Concept: Olelo eBike Branding
Updete: This was a missed submission for the GM eBike Challenge -
Under Your Nose
Chances are you don’t need a design strategy to fix your product/market fit. The solution to your woes is likely under y... -
Links for 30 Nov
There’s a different pace to the end of the year. For some, its about making sure that the mistakes and opportunities of ... -
Technological Advents
Having written once and found the item gone into the ether, there was the day’s events spent thinking (in the background... -
Links for 23 Nov
Keeping to the usual flow of posting the week’s curated links despite the extension of the holiday weekend in the USA. G... -
Concept: 1847 Philanthropic Side Deck
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Conversations Create New Roads
Lots of email newsletters have been pushed out this year. So many are a collection of links, maybe some marketed goods,... -
Clarity in Conversation
Each conversation is another lesson in what others might do or want to do in order to make steps forward. The most commo... -
Links for 16 Nov
Feels a bit as if this was a week of momentum gained. There was clarity regarding Avanceé (in communicating product, pur... -
Concept (full): Hiking Workout for Apple Watch
Previously posted a small portion of this concept -
Perceiving Productivity Normally
Using an iPad to teach how to use a PC changes perceptions and behaviors of productivity Over the past month, have been ... -
Weekends in A Snap Space
Might be a weekend, but pressing forward deserves play spaces not always as linear as a weekday’s newsfeed -
Links for 9 Nov
Perhaps the entrance of a new series of iPads is not a reason to be ancy about the potentials and downsides of various t... -
Avanceé Teams with Tymbals
Avanceé announces a teaming with Tymbals, an Edge Design House. Meaningful design is impactful, sustainable, ethical, an... -
Links for 2 Nov
It is often said that more data is a good thing. Whether that data is relevant or irrelevant almost doesn’t get talked a... -
Intuitive As Design
Arguing for intuition over prediction or known indicators? Yes and no. In between a clearly identified problem and its “... -
Links for 26 Oct
What should we better do now that we understand the uniqueness of the world in which we live? Not that everything is by ... -
Concept: Sunday Thought Continued
Sunday Thought via Twitter -
Inventing the Other Stuff
In between the actual projects taken up by this Avanceé banner, there’s some intentional thinking space given to creatin... -
Links for 19 Oct
Coming to the halfway point of October with all indications that the holidays will have as much lights, noise, and persp... -
Experience Strategy & Engineering Complexity
Came across a few terms when looking further into some of the problem spaces of digitally-augmented teams and organizati... -
Links for 12 Oct
Thoughts about the next waves, and the impending dooms, which have been brought forth not just by our actions, but our i... -
#inktober - Case Management Flow
Drawn using Paper by 53 on iPad Pro. -
Why I Use Earn.com for Contact Form
In a recent conversation, it was asked why there’s such “friction” to contacting me/Avancee. For a little more than a y... -
Links for 5 Oct
There are methods and plans for all kinds of endeavors, but the joy in the remix and release is usually more fulfilling ... -
The Disconnect
Talking w/client about offline options for a future project & remembered the innovative approach of @the__disconne... -
Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt4
Final installment of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 View Part ... -
Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt3
Continuing a sharing of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. - View Part 1 - View... -
Concept: SmartTrip for Apple Watch
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Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt2
Continuing a sharing of the notes which led to our Brigadoon Annapolis lecture on Digital Humanism. View Part 1 of the n... -
Brigadoon Annapolis Transcript, Pt1
Am going to spend a few posts sharing the thoughts and transcript/speaker notes which went into our Brigadoon Annapolis ... -
Week’s Perspective
Erasing the whiteboard and readying for another week of challenges, insights, and new perspectives to open. Sometimes th... -
Links for 28 Sept
Searching, scratching, and using beats on 808s to do something like matching. Each week the links here are a mix and rem... -
Your Ring Does What?
One of the ways in which Avanceé finds its bearings within conversations happens around the constellation of devices on ... -
Brigadoon Annapolis via Kownacki
Enjoying a trip back to @the_brigadoon Annapolis via the pics taken by @bkownacki — so many of them capture the energy ... -
Links for 21 Sept
Throughly enjoyed sharing a bit about “digital humanism” at Annapolis Brigadoon over the past days. Yet, for as much as ... -
Brigadoon Annapolis on Snap
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Going to share clips of our “digital humanism” talk for @the_brigadoon (on the boat) via @Snapchat @Spectacles tomorrow. A few clips from tonight already snapped/posted.
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Immersed in iOS Shortcuts
Would usually take a week+ to read @macstoriesnet’s iOS 12 Review, but the writing made it a one-night affair; the Short... -
Nuance and Apple Watch Series 4
Reading, listening, and watching reviews of Apple Watch Series 4 For as much as reviewer’s who have had a limited amount... -
Sketch2Code Homework
Doing some homework around @Microsoft’s #Sketch2Code for a bit today. This is the kind of action which could easily be a... -
(re)Starting with New Assumptions
Have had a number of positive conversations since starting on this Avanceé journey. For the most part, conversations hav... -
Links for 14 Sept
Clouds and rain seem to make something of a calming moment for many. For others, clouds and rain portend a change. Wheth... -
Normal Until Disaster
Natural disasters often spring thoughts of what works and doesn’t work about the normal processes and tools we utilize. ... -
Livability As Productivity
Avanceé has accidentally been speaking towards two roads, design as normative to computing and productivity’s redefiniti... -
Links for 7 Sept
There’s this stretch of life which happens right at the end of summer when many folks start picking up the pace. An anxi... -
Experiments Amore
Going to experiment again tomorrow… been playing w/potential tweak to service offerings. Tomorrow will be a good ... -
Asking Better UX Questions
Stumbled across a discussion about user experience (UX) and a new tool from Microsoft called Sketch2Code the other week.... -
Links for 31 Aug
There’s something of a flood coming. At least, depending on the genre you are watching, listening to, or consumed by the... -
MicroMobility Podcast
Really interesting… never met @asymco yet this is maybe the 3rd time having noticed him syncing/pivoting to a sim... -
Design, Design Systems, & Patterns
“Design” is a recognized topic in many corporate circles. The value of what design does for business has become the next... -
Links for 24 Aug
It has been something of a flashback in seeing how many have made their way over to MicroBlog. Sure, Twitter acting out ... -
Network Effects and Twitter Removal
Thinking about taking some more chances with the content posted through this @microdotblog account and it hits that some... -
Productivity As Identity
Shifting modes of transportation invites a revisit into what productivity looks like. When one adds a commute, they add ... -
Links for 17 Aug
Tossing about whatever sticks. Or, are we making trails inside and beyond the streams other conversations and concepts h... -
Awareness or Aware-less
Tweeted the other day about some new explorations happening with indentity and authentication and it was pretty clear th... -
Links for 10 Aug
The middle of the year has passed and there’s some sense of “if you haven’t made that 2018 change now, then you better g... -
Concept: PhD Search Notebook
Concept: PhD Search Notebook (made with Paper for iOS) -
Reading, Recognizing, & Lenses
Years before the genesis of Avanceé, there was Mobile Ministry Magazine, a website and magazine geared to assisting fait... -
Links for 3 Aug
There’s sometimes no getting around this point — there’s just a whole lot out there to sift through, and even more right... -
Links for 27 July
Lots of flooding — both in rainfall and information — across various timelines this week. It’s almost as if the summer h... -
Concept: Limited, Interactive Dashboard
Concept: Limited, Interactive Dashboard App (for Tablets First); made with Paper for iOS -
Mobility
There’s much change happening about transportation. In urban areas, the technology which has fueled the hockey-stick lik... -
Links for 20 July
Sometimes, it doesn’t matter what exactly you might be trying to avert your attention from, there are some news and note... -
Project Idea: Wellness Enabler
Had an idea earlier this year about purchasing a health company (I Should buy A Digital Health Company); haven’t really ... -
Blockers and Filters
In one of our recent projects, we are mapping workflows which are no longer being used due to organizational and staff c... -
Links for 13 July
Travel and sickness often makes for unusual insights. Then again, there are some questions we don’t ask when we are well... -
On Workflows
Many years ago, the word/phrase to be found around the workplace was “workflow.” Between the many folks selling workflow... -
Links for 6 July
Independence is an agreement, but not an inevitable decision. At least, that’s how it feels when looking at the links fo... -
The Appendage Conundrum
As we pulled up to the mall, Steve felt there was something he’d show me. Little did he know, I was going to use this c... -
Links for 29 June
The future should be described in more optimistic terms than perhaps scholars or the entertainment industry has put fort... -
Concept: Podcast UI
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Tools on Deck: Adobe Comp CC
The tools used on Windows and macOS machines just aren’t usable in the same manner on Apple’s iOS devices. That has requ... -
Links for 22 June
Finding this week’s links light in terms of quantity, but heavier in terms of context and implications. In some measure,... -
Past Project: All Books UI (Aged UI)
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Exploring ‘Digital Humanism’
There are a few terms worth talking about — or maybe it is just the phrase which needs to find its way beyond the unexpl... -
Links for 15 June
A week away from things, slightly unintentionally. Having been given a closer-than-usual seat at the start of a life, on... -
Concept: Mentor Tracker App
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Notes As Art
As has been the case for the past few weeks, the top of the week has been regarded as the space for the week’s long-form... -
Concept: Hiking Workout for Apple Watch
Concept: Hiking Workout for Apple Watch (before it was annoucned for watchOS 5) -
Experience Last
The project is well-past the kickoff, and it feels as if there are no other successes to be pulled. The pace of developm... -
Links for 1 June
Closing another week and there are just enough hours to share a few influential links passed this week: A 2-Year Stanfo... -
Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool
Concept: Tymbals Risk Assessment Tool; made with Paper by FiftyThree -
Educating Shaping Working
Though the roster took up to 12 students, there were only a half-dozen registered for the class. However, only one showe... -
Links for 25 May
Happy GDPR Day! Ok, maybe that’s not the best way to open the week’s link share. Yet, there’s something to be said about... -
The Features Trap
Asking for features but wanting better methods For a number of years, SharePoint had been a part of the toolkit for proj... -
Links for 18 May
The backend of Spring has hit a number of places and industries differently. Where some areas are getting so much rain t... -
From Mundane to Tactile
A long day where you move about within about a 25ft radius yet still travel across continents, trade information, and en... -
Links for 11 May
Would be the easy excuse to say that the usual posting scheme was disrupted because of the work on deck, but that’s not ... -
Links for 4 May
Its about that time again… really need to think about better ways to introduce the week’s links of interest, refl... -
Living in A Future Present
The reflection starts in using augmented memories. What was an an enjoyable time of food, drinks, and dancing is now not... -
Links for 27 April
Another week in the books and the threads are aplenty. And maybe that’s just a sign of spring — lots of items coming to ... -
Move Fast and Shape Things
The other week, we looked back as to what’s been published so far, and there has really been a decent amount of content.... -
Identity and Instinctive Travels
What happens to fall inside or outside of the work to be done might be considered a distraction. As part of building a d... -
Twitter Posting Gone Awry
Now that’s interesting. For some reason, posting to Twitter stopped happening a few days ago. It looks like cross-postin... -
Links for 20 April
Back again with a few links which have made something of influence here and there throughout the week. At the same time ... -
Current vs Currents
Composing this as the start of yet another Excel class is about to begin. The framing is simple — to get a company of pe... -
Algorithmic Impact Assessment Framework
Interesting Algorithmic Impact Assessments via AI Now Institute - via Benedict Evans’s Weekly Newsletter The Algorithmi... -
NACTO Guidelines
Reading - there’s a good bit of insight towards cycling & public transport I’d not seen before (had convos however).... -
Wavelength
Totally late on this (as usual), but it looks like there’s a podcast client created by Micro.Blog’s inventor Wavelength ... -
Thought
Spent the week developing a Twitter/Medium strategy for a group. Sketching the blueprint was good for this moment; but t... -
Links for 13 April
Sometimes, milestones and reflections are more for yourself than for others. But, its certainly interesting when we hear... -
Cutting New Roads
Somewhere in the weeds, or maybe beyond the bushes with the hard bristles and leaves, is that thing you and your team ha... -
Links for 6 April
Another week in the books, and while it is after the holiday, there’s nothing slow about the pace of reading and contemp... -
Convo On Creating New Textiles
trying something where original “tweets” happen here versus on Twitter first Spoke w/a woman the other day who takes scr... -
Paying Attention
Yesterday, spent some time on an upcoming podcast and one of the questions asked was about what new technologies or pers... -
Links for 30 March
In the midst of a holy season for so many faith groups, its good to have points like these to reflect on items which put... -
Simple Image, Simple Focuses
It has been almost four months since starting Avanceé and there’s always this tension that it can be refined a bit more,... -
Links for 26 March
Whoops, got way too into work and life on Friday and missed links for last week; here’s whats been grabbing attention, t... -
Opining on the Value of Metrics
You can’t improve what you don’t measure In a recent conversation with an executive director of a youth-reaching program... -
Links for 16 March
This has been a week of considering not just the validity of approach, but how work has to respond to methods and tools ... -
Methods and Tools of Work
Over the weekend, spent a bit of time diving into the work of service design during the Global Service Jam. There’s some... -
Links for 9 March
Another week in the books, and more or less some interesting covers unveiled throughout the links of note this week. Tak... -
The Transition of Change
Caught in that time period right between the cold of winter that remains on your memory until the rest of the year, and ... -
Links for 2 March
Another week in the books and its been a pretty packed one. Here are the links which have come across the screens & ... -
Links for 23 Feb
I think an earlier thought about being intuitive on purpose might be a truer characterization of Avanceé than many other... -
Reflections Forward
Pausing from developing a prototype to think and ruminate a bit about the point of the actions we do forward. Not so muc... -
Links for 16 Feb
There’s a feeling of awe and accomplishment each week publishing the links of interest. Not simply because it offers a t... -
Design Is More than What You See
Feels weird to say this, but there seems to be something of a blind spot when it comes to the design industry. A vast ma... -
Links for 9 Feb
Welcome to Friday, and despite the higher-than usual amount of work, there’s still plenty of good writing which has happ... -
Looking Beyond the Horizon
Generally, we look towards some unidentifable place beyond the horizon to set a goal. Some call it “moonshot” and others... -
Links for 2 Feb
If last week was a case of trying to pick the best from a large stack, this week is more like trying to find the best it... -
Misplaced Perceptions of User Experience
There are many organizations, upon hearing the term “user experience” land on the perception of “finally getting a pleas... -
Links for 26 Jan
For the most part, keeping the links list to 3-5 items has proven to be pretty hard this week as there has been a bit mo... -
Going Beyond Design Thinking
Often, we would like to think that doing an analysis, reinvesting in the mission/vision, or even deploying a new technol... -
Links for 19 Jan
This week’s links of interest and contemplation: Nintendo Labo In Which a Neural Network Learns to Tell Knock-Knock Jok... -
Describing Avanceé’s Key Themes
Missed on Tuesday’s big post due to activites & focuses going elsewhere. But here’s a key theme: tools we use shape ... -
Links for 12 Jan
Some links which have stood out this week: Turning Design Mockups Into Code With Deep Learning Big data meets Big Broth... -
Design Thinking... Maybe Similar
If Avanceé sounds like aspects of design thinking, that’s deliberate. To invite out-of-the-box perspectives into “busine... -
Links for 5 Jan
Every few weeks we’ll share some links to pieces which point towards some POV that enables, challenges, or speaks to wor... -
Explaining “Out-of-the-Box“
Avanceé is a deliberate effort to help successful product teams figure out what’s next. It isn’t so much making existing... -
Welcome to Avanceé
Avanceé is a new organization - one part design consultanty, another part inventor’s factory - where we empower re...