Narrated explorables: three mental models

Three mental models for “narrated explorables,” a new…

Looking sideways at the design squiggle

Though everyone seems to draw it slightly differently, the coarse shape of this diagram…

The student is the most important subject in our sentences

Explanations from alleged masters of shape dissection

We’d just invited a few thousand students to try our latest experiment in online open-ended response activities — a controlled trial with pre- and post-test questions focused on concept transfer. We started reviewing their work, but the…

Safely showing students how others see their work

Sorting product “baseball cards”: bridging behavioral interviews and prototypes

We’re excited to share a user research method that helped us bridge the gap between wide-ranging behavioral interviews and detailed validation of specific value propositions. We made quick…

Our report on online open-ended activities

Empowering online learners to think critically and…

Unrealized Game Metaphor #57: A Taste of Power

gaming has a neat trick for this that I’ve yet to see product learn. TV Tropes calls it “A Taste of Power.”