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Aug 1, 2020

The secret to escaping lockdown is Skyrim VR

The secret to escaping lockdown is Skyrim VR I’ve recently joined a guild of thieves. After completing several sneaky acts of thievery, I’ve been asked by my superiors to cross the land and investigate some dodgy dealings of the swindling anthropomorphised lizard barfly in Solitude. Having never visited Solitude, I…

Covid Diaries

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The secret to escaping lockdown is Skyrim VR
The secret to escaping lockdown is Skyrim VR
Covid Diaries

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Mar 26, 2020

Remaining resilient while working from home

Remaining resilient while working from home Resilience is a topic I’m particularly passionate about. My day job is working for the online education division of a university and my role is focused on improving our students’ experiences through innovative new ideas. Resilience is a significant issue for students studying online…

Resilience

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Remaining resilient while working from home
Remaining resilient while working from home
Resilience

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Mar 24, 2020

Cooking up a storm when facilitating an online meeting

Cooking up a storm when facilitating an online meeting I recall watching Huey’s Cooking Adventures (hosted by 90s’ Australian Celebrity chef Iain ‘Huey’ Hewitson) at my nan’s house after school and that guy used a tool for everything in the kitchen. Huey would use a food processor and garlic press…

Working From Home

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Cooking up a storm when facilitating an online meeting
Cooking up a storm when facilitating an online meeting
Working From Home

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Mar 23, 2020

Maintaining a quality team culture when working from home

Maintaining a quality team culture when working from home When an entire team starts working from home it can be a complicated challenge. Imagine if you came into the office one day and the entire team had to be relocated to another floor with minimal preparation and planning. In this…

Culture

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Maintaining a quality team culture when working from home
Maintaining a quality team culture when working from home
Culture

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Mar 19, 2020

The unintended benefits and pitfalls of working from home

The unintended benefits and pitfalls of working from home Some of you may be working from home or about to commence working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and consequently need to socially isolate. …

Working From Home

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The unintended benefits and pitfalls of working from home
The unintended benefits and pitfalls of working from home
Working From Home

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Mar 18, 2020

Things you forget about when working from home

Things you forget about when working from home When working from home there are several things to consider that you may not have considered. Most people just think about their work environment first, particularly their workspace and tools. They will ask themselves, “Do I have the right equipment to access…

Working From Home

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Things you forget about when working from home
Things you forget about when working from home
Working From Home

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Oct 25, 2019

The unintended consequences of autonomous vehicles

Speculative writing and illustrations can be great tools for exploring how new technology might look like and operate in the real world. By applying data, research, observation, design and informed thinking, we can anticipate some of the unintended consequences of emerging technology. If you’re like me, you’ve had idealised visions…

Self Driving Cars

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Speculative scenario writing: the unintended consequences of autonomous vehicles
Speculative scenario writing: the unintended consequences of autonomous vehicles
Self Driving Cars

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Aug 30, 2019

How to conjure game ideas

I use a bunch of different techniques to come up with game ideas. There’s a terrible stigma that creativity just happens to people in a ‘lightning bolt moment’. People conjure up images of the tormented creative staring at the ocean until they are inspired. It might work that way some…

Game Development

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How to conjure game ideas
How to conjure game ideas
Game Development

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Aug 26, 2019

Overcoming perfectionism through life drawing

Imagine you start sketching and you accidentally smudge ink across the page or, worse, you accidentally spill your coffee or red wine on the page. Rather than fix the sketch, you scrunch it up and throw the page in the bin. You now stare at a new clean sheet of…

Art

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Overcoming perfectionism through life drawing
Overcoming perfectionism through life drawing
Art

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Aug 16, 2019

The danger of redesigning existing products for free

The danger of redesigning existing products for free I've sensed a disturbance in the force of design. Extremely talented people are redesigning existing products such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Spotify and other tools for free. I’ve seen many blog posts and Medium articles about UXers and designers having taken established tools…

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The danger of redesigning existing products for free
The danger of redesigning existing products for free

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Dan Steen

Dan Steen

120 Followers

creative, tinkerer, animator, designer, ux, games and education geek. Vegan.

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