Note: this is a stab at figuring out what my Hyper Island Experience Design masters project will be about! I sincerely ask for and look forward to your feedback. Thanks! — Austin It’s surprising how many of our decisions are already shaped by automated recommendations. They help us decide the…

“We do not teach hard skills here.” — Presentation by Lauren Currie “Please come and present the hard skills you learned.” — Correspondence from SapientNitro, 6 months later

If you know me, you know that I love to ask some really bizarre questions. Here’s some of my favorite questions and some from friends. Reply with some of your favorites. I’ll keep updating as I remember/think of some more. -A Riskiest thing you’ve done and who would you share…

Space Colony Speculation. Interior view. Art work: Don Davis. NASA Ames Research Center This is a summary of the study A Pragmatics Framework for Design Fiction by Joseph Lindley. [Design Fiction is the] Deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change (Sterling, 2012) Design Fiction is a new…

My team’s Journey Map, featuring the Emotion Map I despise. In a recent design exercise, where our team played Dungeons & Dragons for the first time (btw, awesome!), we set to to create a journey map where our Emotion Map anchored all of the other components. …

Know when you just begin a hike and you spend twenty minutes just trying to find where the trail begins? This post is kind of like that. Hello world. Our apologies, dear reader, this is a poor example of what to expect. Should you return, this article would be buried…