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PolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Experiments Progress aka Metaphorical Plate Spinning
Last episode of the Polytechnicast I shared some projects I'd begun and was about do dive into. These are the spinning plates driving this episode. Did any fall? Are there more plates spinning?
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PolytechnicastPolytechnicast - A Place to Practice Spelling
This is Spell, the magical cat who hosts a save place to practice spelling words.
In the middle of working on my next big game Word Turtle Island, where you use words as weapons to battle creatures taking away the books of power, the idea for Spell's Spelling came to me. In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on how this came about and how sometimes a project that takes time away from another project can be worthwhile.
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PolytechnicastPolytechnicast - One Big Project and a New Self Discovery
In this episode I ask why I've posted so few things in 2022. It's a bit about what I'm currently working on and it's also something I've been trying to figure out for years.
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PolytechnicastSpeciál pro Noc vědců na VŠPJ: TYFLOCENTRUM JIHLAVA: Nevidomí lidé milují černý humorZrak je pro většinu z nás dominantním smyslem. Jak se žije lidem, kteří mají schopnost zraku oslabenou nebo jsou zcela nevidomí? O každodenních překážkách lidí se zrakovým postižením povypráví ve speciální epizodě podcastu Polytechnicast pro Noc vědců 2022 Mgr. Iveta Bělovová Dolejší, ředitelka organizace TyfloCentrum Jihlava, a její zástupkyně Bc. Monika Havlíková, DiS., MBA.2022-09-3031 min
PolytechnicastSpeciál pro Noc vědců na VŠPJ: Dr. FILIP DĚCHTĚRENKO: Zrak má nejlepší poměr cena/výkonJak se vizuální vnímání promítá do našeho myšlení? Jak funguje lidská pozornost? Jakto, že nám některé věci připadají krásné? A jak se stal zrak naším dominantním smyslem? Nejen na tyto otázky se pokusí ve speciální epizodě podcastu Polytechnicast pro Noc vědců 2022 odpovědět Mgr. et Mgr. Filip Děchtěrenko, Ph.D. Tento teoretický informatik a psycholog působí na Katedře matematiky VŠPJ a v Psychologickém ústavu Akademie Věd České republiky a ve svém výzkumu se zabývá zrakovým vnímáním, lidskou pamětí a poz2022-09-3034 min
Polytechnicast#24: Noc vědců v JihlavěNoc vědců je jedna z největších vědecko-popularizačních akcí nejen v České republice, ale i v Evropě. Tradičně poslední pátek v září během ní otevírají ve večerních a nočních hodinách své dveře široké veřejnosti vědecká a výzkumná pracoviště i další instituce na stovkách míst v Evropě.
Téma letošního ročníku Noci vědců je Všemi smysly. Zapojte tedy nyní také svoje smysly a poslechněte si 24. epizodu podcastu Polytechnicast, v níž vám přiblížíme aktivity, které si pro návštěvníky Noci vě...2022-09-0710 min
Polytechnicast#23: MAREK ŠMARDA, BOHUMÍR MACHOVEC A DAVID HENZL: Skloubit sport se studiem je hlavně souboj s časemJak jde dohromady vysokoškolské studium a sport? Minimálně na Vysoké škole polytechnické Jihlava velmi dobře. Potvrdí Vám to hosté 23. epizody podcastu Polytechnicast – vedoucí Kabinetu sportů VŠPJ Bohumír Machovec a studenti prvního ročníku studijního programu Aplikovaná informatika Marek Šmarda a David Henzl. VŠPJ totiž kromě celé řady semestrálních sportů a sportovních kurzů určených nejen studentům, ale například i zaměstnancům nebo posluchačům univerzity třetího věku, nabízí také významnou podporu vrcholovým sportovcům, kteří se chtějí věnovat svému sportu na co nejvyšší úrovni, a...2022-07-0132 min
Polytechnicast#22: MARTINA DRAŠAROVÁ A NIKOL LUDVIKOVÁ: Láska k Mexiku prochází žaludkemStudenti bakalářského studijního programu Cestovní ruch získávají cenné zkušenosti nejenom během odborných praxí či terénních výjezdů do tuzemských i evropských lokalit, ale i prostřednictvím expedic do vzdálených a exotických zemí. O jedné z takových expedic vám povyprávějí hosté 22. epizody podcastu Polytechnicast – Ing. Martina Drašarová, Ph.D., která pracuje jako odborná asistentka na Katedře cestovního ruchu VŠPJ a zároveň je profesionální průvodkyní zahraničních cest po Evropě a Mexiku, a studentka 2. ročníku programu Cestovní ruch Nikol L...2022-05-1830 min
Polytechnicast#20: JITKA BOHÁČKOVÁ, VLASTA ŘEZNÍKOVÁ A MAGDA DOSBABOVÁ: Škola zotavení je místo příběhůLidé s duševním onemocněním se často setkávají s různými formami stigmatizace ze strany společnosti. Jak tuto stigmatizaci odstranit, nebo alespoň zmírnit? Jednou z možností může být zapojení lidí, kteří se z duševního onemocnění zotavují, přímo do procesu vzdělávání, prostřednictvím osoby tzv. peer lektora. Na Vysoké škole polytechnické Jihlava je výuka s peer lektory již od roku 2017 součástí povinného předmětu Základy psychiatrie a psychopatologie vyučovaného na katedře sociální práce. V budoucnu by přitom mělo dojít k rozšíření zákla...2022-03-0843 min
Polytechnicast#19: DOC. ZDENĚK HORÁK: Vysoká škola by měla být místem pro setkávání a diskuziAkademický senát Vysoké školy polytechnické Jihlava bude volit nového rektora. Nástupce současného rektora profesora Václava Báči, kterému končí v roce 2022 druhé funkční období, budou senátoři vybírat v tajném hlasování ve středu 12. ledna 2022. Na post nejvyššího představitele školy kandiduje jediný akademik. Je jím prorektor pro tvůrčí a projektovou činnost a vedoucí katedry technických studií docent Zdeněk Horák, který tu sedí se mnou v laboratoři zpracování signálu a multimédií. Jaká je jeho vize směřování školy? V čem by rád navázal na působení současného...2022-01-0530 min
PolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Memory of organizations - repeating other people's stories
Have you been part of an organization that seems to repeat projects that don't learn much from one another? It's a thing I've wondered: why do companies forget? This episode of the Polytechnicast I journal about group memory and wonder if it would be helpful to remember what different teams have tried and learned in the past. Is it because we resist repeating other peoples stories?
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Polytechnicast#18: DAVID ŠČERBA A ONDŘEJ ŠRYTR (Stormware s.r.o.): Nejdůležitější jsou znalosti a zájemVysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava vyniká svým zaměřením na praxi a uplatnění dovedností a její studenti absolvují během studia v rámci odborné praxe až 46 týdnů. Jak to ale chodí na praxích studentů doslova v praxi? Doufejme, že nám na to alespoň částečně odpoví 18. epizoda podcastu Polytechnicast. Pozvání k rozhovoru tentokrát přijali David Ščerba, ředitel vývoje ve společnosti Stormware, a Ondřej Šrytr, student třetího ročníku bakalářského studijního programu Aplikovaná informatika na Katedře technických studií VŠPJ. Ondřej se v této softwarové firmě s centrálou v Jihlav...2021-11-0930 min
PolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Making your own art journal prompts #artsoundoff
Any path that brings you to journaling about your art, here I share some context around planning what you'd want to get out of your journaling plus choosing and creating prompts that are a good fit for what you want.
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Polytechnicast#17: Ing. Mgr. PETR LIŠKA: Deskovky přináší emoce, které prezentace v Powerpointu nezprostředkujePatříte mezi ty, kteří v pátek 24. září zavítali do budovy VŠPJ, aby zažili neopakovatelnou atmosféru Noci vědců, během které věda ukazuje svoji pravou tvář? Tak to je dost dobře možné, že jste se zapojili do workshopu a následného hraní věnovaného deskové hře Cesta životem. Autorem této hry je Ing. Mgr. Petr Liška z Pelhřimova, host 17. epizody podcastu Polytechnicast. Petr Liška tvoří již několik let deskové hry pod hlavičkou své firmy Fox Games, ve které podle svých slov ještě donedávna zastával pozici jednate...2021-10-1420 min
PolytechnicastSpeciál pro Noc vědců na VŠPJ #2: prof. DAVID KACHLÍK: Lidské tělo virtuální pitevní stoly nenahradíČas, který je nám dán na tomto světě v našem těle je omezený. Co se stane s naším vědomím, až se tento čas naplní? To je věčnou záhadou, kterou se lidé zabývají již po tisíciletí. Co se však stane po smrti s naším tělem, to můžeme ovlivnit již nyní. Jednou z možností je darování těla pro vědecké a vzdělávací účely, aby nadále sloužilo k prohlubování odborných znalostí. A právě tématu darování těla se věnuje jedna ze dvou speciálních epizod podc...2021-10-1220 min
PolytechnicastSpeciál pro Noc vědců na VŠPJ #1: MATĚJ KOLÁŘ: Hudba minulosti z JihlavskaČas hraje v hudbě naprosto klíčovou úlohu. A hudba? Ta se průběhu času neustále mění. Jak asi zněla hudba minulosti, a to konkrétně ta, která se před staletími hrála na území Jihlavy? Jednu z možných interpretací nabízí Matěj Kolář, host jedné ze dvou speciálních epizod podcastu Polytechnicast, které jsme připravili u příležitosti Noci vědců 2021. Tento jihlavský performer, hudebník a také pedagog hraje již více než čtvrt století na klasické housle a originálním, mnohdy téměř experimentálním způsobem interpretuje lidovou hudbu...2021-09-2436 min
Polytechnicast#16: Noc vědců na VŠPJTajemná, nedostižná a komplikovaná. I tak na vás může věda působit, ale ne, když je Noc vědců. Noc, kdy vám věda a vědci ukážou svou pravou tvář. Tato výjimečná událost, která oživuje na jeden večer stovky vědeckých budov po celé České republice se 24. září 2021 od 17:00 vůbec poprvé uskuteční na půdě Vysoké školy polytechnické Jihlava, a vy se tak budete moci zúčastnit zajímavých přednášek, výstav, komentovaných prohlídek laboratoří, workshopů, koncertů a hravých aktivit, které vás seznámí s vědeckou a výzkumnou činno...2021-09-1717 min
Polytechnicast#14: Dr. MARKÉTA DUBNOVÁ A Dr. JANA GABRIELOVÁ: Vadám sluchu věnujeme málo pozornostiDnes máme opět skvělou příležitost si představit zajímavý a přínosný projekt, který byl zpracován na půdě Vysoké školy polytechnické Jihlava. Do 14. epizody podcastu Polytechnicast přijaly pozvání Mgr. Markéta Dubnová, PhD., vedoucí Katedry sociální práce VŠPJ, a Mgr. Jana Gabrielová, PhD., která působí na této katedře jako akademická pracovnice. Obě dámy se v posledních několika letech významnou měrou podílely na přípravě a realizaci unikátního multidisciplinárního projektu „Nové přístupy, metody a technologie v oblasti diagnostiky a korekce sluchovýc...2021-08-1127 min
Polytechnicast#13: ELIŠKA NĚMCOVÁ A LUCIE VAŇKOVÁ: Po návratu domů jsme zažily kulturní šokV minulé epizodě podcastu Polytechnicast, jejímž hostem byl David Průša z Mezinárodního oddělení Vysoké školy polytechnické Jihlava, jsme si blíže posvítili na širokou nabídku studijních i pracovních zahraničních pobytů, ze které mohou vybírat jak studenti, tak i zaměstnanci naší vysoké školy. K tématu výjezdů do zahraničí se vrátíme i tentokrát – hosty dnešní třinácté epizody jsou totiž Eliška Němcová a Lucie Vaňková, které se v příštím akademickém roce stanou studentkami třetího ročníku bakalářského studijního programu Zdravotně sociá...2021-07-2722 min
Polytechnicast#12: Bc. DAVID PRŮŠA: Náplní mé práce je i hledání zavazadel na jiných kontinentechOd zveřejnění minulého dílu uplynuly již dva týdny. S příchodem července jsme najeli na prázdninový režim, a tak nás nyní můžete poslouchat na webu VŠPJ i hlavních podcastových platformách vždy jednou za čtrnáct dní. V uvolněném prázdninovém duchu se nese také dnešní rozhovor. Pozvání do dvanácté epizody podcastu Polytechnicast přijal tentokrát David Průša, který na Vysoké škole polytechnické Jihlava působí na Mezinárodním oddělení, a je tak tou nejpovolanější osobou, která může posluchačům přiblížit vše, co se t...2021-07-1435 min
Polytechnicast#11: KLÁRA VRBOVÁ: Pandemie mě zastihla na Erasmu v LitvěV uplynulých epizodách jsme prostřednictvím rozhovorů se studenty představili téměř všechny bakalářské studijní programy a obory, které Vysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava nabízí. Tím posledním dílkem, který nám zatím do skládanky jménem Polytechnicast chyběl, byl až doposud rozhovor se studentkou bakalářského studijního oboru Všeobecná sestra vyučovaného na Katedře zdravotnických studií VŠPJ. Host jedenácté epizody podcastu Polytechnicast, kterým je Klára Vrbová, již technicky vzato na VŠPJ nestuduje. Doufáme ale, že nám tuto drobnou nesrovnalost prominete. Klára je t...2021-06-3021 min
Polytechnicast#10: ELIŠKA RAMBOUSKOVÁ: Scházelo mi dobrodružství, tak jsem šla studovat cestovní ruchV uplynulém týdnu do České republiky dorazilo letní počasí, mnoho z vás se možná v tuto chvíli již připravuje na svou dovolenou a ti nejšťastnější již třeba tráví svůj čas na cestách po krásách naší země i zahraničí. Také téma desáté epizody podcastu Polytechnicast se léta, dovolených a cestování dotýká. Pozvání totiž přijala Eliška Rambousková, studentka druhého ročníku prezenční formy studia bakalářského studijního programu Cestovní ruch na Katedře cestovního ruchu VŠPJ. Eliška nám prozradí nejenom, co st...2021-06-2317 min
Polytechnicast#9: Dr. LENKA LÍZALOVÁ: Genealogie dává dohromady příběhy, které stojí za to vyprávětCo mají společného simulační manažerské hry a genealogie? Překvapivě mnoho. Minimálně tedy osobu hosta deváté epizody podcastu Polytechnicast, jíž je Ing. Lenka Lízalová, Ph.D., vyučující ekonomických předmětů na katedře ekonomických studií VŠPJ, která je zároveň garantem předmětů simulační manažerské hry, lektorkou kurzu Genealogie na univerzitě třetího věku, propagátorkou e-learningu a metodikem nástroje Moodle. První polovina našeho rozhovoru je věnována gamifikaci výuky, konceptu game based learning a simulačním hrám FinGR Play a Unisim, které jsou zaměřeny na...2021-06-1646 min
Polytechnicast#8: DOMINIK GÖTTLER: Vlastní studentský projekt? Prvním krokem je nebát se!Vysoká škola nemusí být pouze prostředkem, jak získat vzdělání, ale může být také místem, kde mladí lidé mění své sny ve skutečnost. Jasným důkazem je host dnešní epizody podcastu Polytechnicast, Dominik Göttler, úspěšný absolvent bakalářského studijního programu Aplikovaná technika pro průmyslovou praxi a v současnosti student prvního ročníku programu Aplikované strojírenství na Katedře technických studií VŠPJ. Dominik je duchovním otcem a tou hlavní postavou, která stojí za studentským projektem XR-Buggy, jehož náplní je návrh konstrukce a výroba plně funk...2021-06-0912 min
Polytechnicast#7: DR. MARTINA ČERNÁ a DR. JAKUB DOSTÁL: Česko s dobrovolnictvím počítá#7: DR. MARTINA ČERNÁ a DR. JAKUB DOSTÁL: Česko s dobrovolnictvím počítá
Věděli jste, že na celém světě je téměř miliarda dobrovolníků a ekonomická hodnota jejich dobrovolnictví odpovídá hrubému domácímu produktu nejvyspělejších zemí světa? Podle Českého statistického úřadu přitom dobrovolníci v České republice odpracují každý rok desítky milionů hodin v hodnotě miliard korun. Právě problematikou měření hodnoty dobrovolnictví se zabývá projekt nazvaný Česko s dobrovolnictvím počítá, který realizovala Vysoká škola polytechnická Jihlava ve spolupráci s organizací HESTIA - centrum pro dobrovol...2021-06-0223 min
Polytechnicast#6: DOC. ZDENĚK HORÁK: Inženýři z Vysočiny se na trhu práce neztratíKdy se na Vysoké škole polytechnické Jihlava začaly rodit první myšlenky na otevření nového navazujícího magisterského programu Aplikovaná technika pro průmyslovou praxi? Co vše přinese možnost získaní titulu Ing. v technickém oboru přímo na Vysočině studentům i celému regionu? A jak se bude do výuky nového programu promítat revoluční koncept Průmyslu 4.0? To vše a mnohem více se dozvíte při poslechu další epizody podcastu Polytechnicast s doc. Ing. Zdeňkem Horákem, Ph.D., vedoucím Katedry technických studií VŠPJ...2021-05-2628 min
Polytechnicast#5: MARTINA HRABALOVÁ: Předsudky máme všichni, i když si to málokdo připustíV pořadí pátá epizoda podcastu Polytechnicast přináší další pokračování série rozhovorů se studenty bakalářských studijní programů a oborů VŠPJ. Do nahrávacího studia tentokrát zavítala Martina Hrabalová, studentka prvního ročníku kombinované formy studia oboru Zdravotně sociální pracovník na Katedře sociální práce VŠPJ. Martina je terénní pracovnice programu SOVY, který se snaží předcházet sociálnímu vyloučení rodin i jednotlivců. V průběhu rozhovoru nám prozradila, jakým problémům musí čelit klienti terénního programu SOVY v době epidemie onemocnění C...2021-05-1917 min
Polytechnicast#4: ALT+F4: Filmotéku jsme naprogramovali za 29 hodin a sud pivaNový díl podcastu Polytechnicast se nese ve znamení čísla čtyři. Pozvání do čtvrté epizody totiž přijal tým Alt+F4 složený ze čtyř studentů druhého ročníku bakalářského studijního programu Aplikovaná informatika na Katedře technických studií VŠPJ. Ti nedávno dosáhli skvělého úspěchu – v programovací soutěži UnIT Challenge se jim podařilo v silné konkurenci soutěžících z několika dalších technických škol obsadit první místo v kategorii Frontend. S Michalem Blažejovským, Honzou Korbelem, Michalem Hrdinou a Filipem Kulíškem jsme se bavili nejenom o jejic...2021-05-1242 min
Polytechnicast#3: JITKA FALTÝNOVÁ: Každý porod je úplně jinýNa 5. května připadá Mezinárodní den porodních asistentek. Máme velkou radost, že právě v tento den, kdy si připomínáme význam a důležitost této profese, vám můžeme přinést epizodu podcastu Polytechnicast se studentkou třetího ročníku oboru Porodní asistentka na Katedře zdravotnických studií VŠPJ, Jitkou Faltýnovou.
S Jitkou jsme si povídali nejenom o jejím studijním oboru, který se celý točí okolo těch nejvíce fascinujících momentů v životě člověka, ale také o jejím členství ve studentské komo...2021-05-0520 min
Polytechnicast#2: JAROSLAV VÁŇA: Díky VŠPJ jsem se hned v prváku podíval do RotterdamuDo jakých evropských velkoměst Vás může při troše snahy zavést studium Vysoké školy polytechnické Jihlava? A jaké to je, dotazovat se úředníků na téma korupce ve veřejné zprávě? To vše se můžete dozvědět při poslechu druhého dílu podcastu Polytechnicast, ve kterém si budeme povídat s Jaroslavem Váňou. studentem šestého semestru prezenční formy bakalářského studijního programu Finance a řízení na Katedře ekonomických studií VŠPJ.2021-04-2826 min
Polytechnicast#1: LUKÁŠ INDRA: Na vysokou jsem šel kvůli zlomené ruceStudenti jsou tím, co vdechuje naší škole život. V poslední době však mají jen málo příležitostí ke společnému setkávání. Úvodní díly podcastu Polytechnicast, do kterých si budeme zvát studenty, aby pohovořili o svých zkušenostech se studiem i prozradili něco více o sobě, tak můžete brát i jako takovou náplast pro všechny, kterým chybí studentský a vůbec společenský život. Jako první přijal naše pozvání Lukáš Indra, student třetího ročníku kombinované formy bakalářského studijního programu Ap...2021-04-1522 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Emotional Effort of Design
The emotional work of discovering, including, representing, and collaborating in design is what I explore in this think aloud journal. This recording didn't start as a Polytechnicast or even an exploration about UX Mindset but that's where I found myself going.
Since the beginning of 2021 I've been blogging every day on my Interactive Storyteller blog. I hope you'll join me there too as I talk about illustrating, making games, and UX design. It's very much the prose form of the Polytechnicast.
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Introduction to the UX Mindset...2021-02-0800 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - UX Mindset for Software Engineering
As someone who's worked both as a software engineer and ux designer I want to share the value adding human centered design tools for making engineering decisions.
This episode continues the UX Mindset series!
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Continuing the UX Mindset series, I share why I think it's so useful for anyone running, planning, or leading a business to see user experience design and human centered design tools as so worthwhile to include in decision making.
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Features 4 or 5 string bass, 6 or 7 string guitar, multiple play modes, difficulty levels...2020-11-0600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - UX Mindset
Something I've been considerering for a number of years: how can I help spreat the tools of ux design far and wide. Human centered design + understanding systems and situations where the things we make connect with the audiences we serve are useful mechanisms for so many. Here I talk about how I started with "UX for all" then "Practicing UX" and am thinking how "UX Mindset" may be even more approachable as a way to choose to involve people and see situations differently to be able to make better things.
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In this Polytechnicast I consider how I've found MVP useful. Also how MVP and any highly celebrated business and design concept will go through a cycle where the name for the concept draws more and more negative takes.
And I share the news that I'm launching a Patreon of news and special episodes of the Polytechnicast and more!
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Get workshops ebooks for ux design, creative coding, creative challenges, goals, and storytelling in Rob's...2020-06-2000 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Being There When a Team is Starting Their Design Journey - Additional Thoughts About the Article
I wrote this article called Being There When a Team is Starting Their First Design Journey, my first Medium article. So many organizations in the recent 10+ years have asked: what if we explore if we should build something for our audience instead of just can we build something. They may not have intended to ask that question at the start, but they're asking this when they invite human centered design. Like I shared in the article "Even though UX design is becoming more common, the tools and skills of UX are not yet everywhere". Great opportunity for human centered...2020-02-1600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Something Ate My Goal Notes
Today I annotated 11 double sided physical pages of goals and what happened next is I left them at a bagel place.
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Guitar Fretter...2020-01-2300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - UX Mentoring Revisited and Guest Teaching Design
Sharing your time to listen, learn, and help connect others to the community you've been part of is a worthwhile endeavor. In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on some recent volunteering I'm doing to support those studying systemic minded human centered design.
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Even though there's a few more days to go in this year's Art Soundoff creative challenge, I'm looking at my experience of this year's challenge asking what went well and what could be better.
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...2019-11-2400 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Creative Work and Health Thoughts and Replies to the Slow Dooown Podcast
This summer indie creator and publisher Jaques Nyemb shared and 8-episode fascinating thoughtful and fun micropodcast series called Slow Dooown. Each episode Jaques asks a question of the audience and in this episode of the Polytechnicast I share some replies and thoughts about collaborating, social presence, and being sustainably creative.
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While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you drawing?" I describe some of the drawings I'm working on now and how they are based on holiday gifts I created last year.
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Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
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Art...2019-11-2000 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Learning for Business and for Casual
While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you learning?" I share a few things I'm learning in both a business context and casual play context.
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Art and...2019-11-1900 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Beginning a Project
At the start of a project I've already gathered things that help me commit.
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Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
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Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn...2019-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Choosing a Favorite Tool is Difficult
I share a few options for my favorite tool and consider how I probably have a bunch of favorite things that help me with understanding, considering, and solving problems.
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...2019-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Human Business Endeavor Sim (Practicing UX for All)
I share an idea about making a game of exploring options and scenarios for combining different parts of a business to solve problems for the audience.
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Art and Science...2019-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Stuck and Unstuck Creative Projects
Thinking about how I get moving again on creative projects feels related to how I got stuck in the first place.
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Guitar Fretter - mobile...2019-11-1600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Crispy Baked Tofu
My approach and steps I take for making very yummy baked tofu you can add to so many kinds of dishes or eat as-is.
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Guitar...2019-11-1200 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Video Games I'm Playing
Video games have been and continue to be an influential life long interest for me. In this Polytechnicast I talk about what I'm playing lately which includes some really old games.
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A few weeks back I noticed how I've developed a habit of moving past completing tasks big or small without celebrating and since then I've been talking with others about how they celebrate finishing things and doing some reflection on it all. In this Polytechnicast I share where I'm at so far with working on celebrating more.
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Jerzy and Rob team up with the hosts of the Tell the Damn Story podcast, Alex Simmons and Chris Ryan, for a two-part discussion on writing, art...2019-11-0900 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Interactive Halloween Tree
I finished a few spare time projects for Halloween this year: 8 props for me an my family's costumes. One project that caught my imagination and but didn't finish: my Halloween Tree.
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Art an...2019-11-0600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience - You Don't Have to Know it All (UX for All)
Continuing the UX for All series, I combine a "why" and "don't have to know it all" set of prompts, considering how choosing to collaborate, investigate, and design is a very useful thing.
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Guitar Fretter - mobile and...2019-11-0500 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Challenges
Responding to "challenges" as a prompt, I share some brief thoughts on creative challenges and why I find them so useful.
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Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
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2019-11-0400 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Notebooks and Sketchbooks
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I talk about my recent notebook and sketchbook review and what I found digging through a few years of books.
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2019-11-0300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Electronic Psyduck Repair
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on how I recently purchased a broken Psyduck and fixed it up. Working with electronics is relatively new to me so this was a fun puzzle.
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2019-11-0300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - UX for All - Weather Conditions for Design Decisions
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I continue the UX for All series by re-introducing it, how I'm picking various topics about collaborative design + research and sharing what comes to mind. The main topic is considering a weather as a metaphor for good decision making.
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2019-11-0200 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Re-introduction
The Polytechnicast is this ongoing journal and fairly infrequent most times of the year except for November. Kicking things off for Art Soundoff 2019 with journaling intentions for the month ahead and re-introducing both myself and this show.
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2019-11-0100 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Starting a Business as Product or SystemThinking about how as an artist I'm also excited and interested in the business side of work, how that's been one of the themes of my career so far. Also the three part business of make, teach, coach that I'm working on.
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2019-09-1500 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - That One TreeA few things I encountered today had me thinking about specialization and how could I pay attention to some signals that help me with being both a generalist creator and deisgner and appreciating the clarity of specialization. Also: thinking about specialization how it works when it's based on you starting something vs. you serving an existing thing or organization.
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2019-08-0500 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Guitar Fretter Anniversary StreamGuitar Fretter is a game about of memorizing the note positions on the guitar. If you play an instrument with strings and frets, you might want to check out. Match the notes on the floating monsters bellies with the correct fret positions to earn health and points.
To celebrate the birthday of Guitar Fretter for the next couple days, it's on sale for FREE, available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac: http://guitarfretter.com
Originally this was streamed live at: twitch.
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...2019-07-2700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Projects With a Useful-Enough Next StepContinuing the mini-summer-season of the Polytechnicast with some thoughts about making more things than I share even though I do like to share work in progress.
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2019-07-0900 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - It's Not The Tools Except When It IsWhen we look at other artist's processes it's fun to consider the tools they use while knowing the tools only tell part of the story.
This episode begins a Summer-mini-season of the Polytechnicast!
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Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate (get 2 months of Skill...2019-06-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Creative Challenge Reflection and What ifThis post is my look back at Art Soundoff 2018 in the style of what went well and what could have been better. Also, I consider a what-if about creative challenges becoming even more frequent and wider reaching with different topics and media. And I share thoughts on what might be next for the Polytechnicast.
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2018-12-0100 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Comfort Food Video Games, an Audio Experiment with Patrick GreenwellDo you have a video game or set of video games you revisit from time to time because they feel comfortable? What keeps these sorts of games interesting and worth coming back to? In this audio experiment Polytechnicast I'm joined by co-host Patrick Greenwell, a long time video game enthusiast and we explore what games are like comfort food to us and why.
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Follow all...2018-11-2900 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Thinking About and Working with Data for UX and OverallHere I explore a variety of things about working with data ranging from: exploring it, visualizing it, and things that inspire me to try to provide more ways of interacting with data. In a lot of ways, this is a post is a mix of ideas about being excited about learning from and then presenting what you learn through gathering, exploring, then presenting data.
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SQLite Home Pa...2018-11-2800 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Inktober and Useful Creative Challenge OutputFor this year's Inktober, which is a 31 day creative challenge to make and share a drawing every day in October, I chose to both partake and to try to get output that could help one of my other projects.
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2018-11-2800 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 11 - Being a Collaborative FacilitatorThis time in the UX series I continue the topic of facilitating meetings, started a few posts ago in UX for All Part 5 - Why Care About Being a Facilitatator. Here are more thoughts on the principles and habits to consider how you can actively help a group of collaborators connect and clarify ideas.
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2018-11-2700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Games I Didn't Finish and Learned FromAs I started to make video games, I found a variety of things I learned even though I didn't finish those initial projects.
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2018-11-2600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Reflecting on an Old Party Invitation ProjectIt's My Party was a project about making it easy to send and manage responses to invitations. Here I reflect on it as one of those things I've shelved but maybe not permanently.
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2018-11-2600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Two Pizza Team, a Comic + Game HypothesisIn June 2018 I finished Two Pizza Team: In a Situation Called No Trash Talk, part one of my hypothesis that a game + comic will serve one another and an audience well.
Here I describe the work I've done so far for the video game Two Pizza Team, part two of the comic+game hypthesis.
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2018-11-2400 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Project Mountain CarverProject Mountain Carver is a big project, incorporates all the things I do professionally, and has built into it ways to keep me encouraged during the long process of accomplishing multi-year-spanning goals.
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TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook
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2018-11-2300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Drafting Text via AudioHere I share my approach to recording my thoughts in audio form as a step to creating other documents.
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2018-11-2300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 10 - Decision Making and Influencing DecisionsContinuing the UX #artsoundoff series, here I talk about how so much of what your design work is about is getting decisions to happen and to get the system/product/thing made.
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2018-11-2300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Feeling Less Daunted by DeadlinesBeing behind where I'd hoped to be with Art Soundoff is a good chance to think about strategies to keep working at the work instead of worrying about a number goal.
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2018-11-2300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Is it Useful to Talk About the Gear I Use?A number of people I follow on social media and on podcasts do a great job talking about and exploring why they choose tools they use to create. Becca Hillburn, Krishna Sadasivam, and Dave Seah come to mind immediately.
Here I wonder about the usefulness of experiment with talking about the gear I use.
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DICTOPRO V100 Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard
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Hackaday Superconference | Pasadena Nov 2-4 2018
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Follow all the...2018-11-2300 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 9 - Things You Can Make That Help with Systemic-Minded Human-Centered DesignContinuing the UX #artsoundoff series, here I talk about things you can make based on data, storytelling, presenting information and helping others be able to relate and participate in the design process. These things (documents, artifacts, deliverables) are forms of documenting designs and what you learn to support the designs.
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2018-11-2100 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Two Artists Supporting Themselves and Each Other with Guest Kate Shields StenzingerWherein Kate asks me "what kinds of things do we do to support each other emotionally with creative projects?", we talk about getting and giving feedback, and creative accountability meanings.
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2018-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 8 - Priming and Design EthicsIn this update in the UX series I talk about priming in how it affects your research to learn about what you're making or even can affect you-yourself via what you experience frequently.
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) (8580001054513): Susan Weinschenk: Books
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - Kindle edition by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson.
Availability heuristic - Wikipedia
List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia
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Subscribe to...2018-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Talisman in my PocketIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I talk about the talisman I carry in my pocket which is a metal stamped pair of words "compassion" and "completion".
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2018-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 7 - Underlying Complexity is Easy to Overlook, Going Faster By Slowing Things DownIn this update in the UX series I talk about how it's easy to want to jump to something complete in one big step yet it's less risky and likely faster to add a some steps.
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Human Centered Design Method Example - IDEO's Design Kit
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2018-11-1400 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 6 - The Need for Design as a Hat and as a JobContinuing the UX series I talk about how UX design can both be a deeply involved job with advanced practitioners and also UX design can be useful when in the hands of someone learning on the job.
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2018-11-1400 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Making a Video Game Side Project Part 5 - Weekend ProgressThis last weekend I had what I call a "creative marathon" on the Two Pizza Team project. I share an update with where the project is at, tool choices, and what things I'll be working on next.
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2018-11-1200 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 5 - Why Care About Being a FacilitatorThis time in the UX series I talk about how and why having principles and practices that help a group of people share and combine ideas is super important whether your project is just you and a client or you and a bunch of other collaborators.
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2018-11-1100 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 4 - Ingredients of a Thoughtful MeetingContinuing the UX series, this time I talk about how and why the things you setup before people gather to work on something is important and useful to user centered design.
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2018-11-1000 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - A Visit From Jerzy DrozdIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I have Friend, Cartoonist and Teaching Artist Jerzy Drozd on to learn the story of what actually happened with an autographed birthday gift.
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2018-11-0900 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Week to Week Goals Feedback with guest co-host Pete StromquistIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I have guest co-host Pete Stromquist with me to explore our approaches to keeping connected with our goals. In particular we dive into: how do we find ways to connect day to day and week to week with bigger goals? Also, how might we do this in a useful and not-too-intense way? And along the way we discuss physical tools and digital tools we use to help with goal tracking, journaling, and self-interviewing.
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Unraveling workbook by Susannah Conway (self-interview resource...2018-09-0500 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 24 - Gratitude and RetrospectiveIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I look back at Art Soundoff 2017, some things I learned, some things I want to celebrate, and express gratitude for those who took part and tuned in to all the art journaling.
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2017-12-0100 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 23 - An Open InternetIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I consider Net Neutrality and how an open internet has been so important for my career, my art and learning.
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2017-11-3000 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 22 - Fitness Has Many FacetsIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I explore the prompt "fitness", how has many areas of concern and how I'm inconsistent about it.
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2017-11-2800 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 21 - FramingIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I consider two ways framing expectations helped, one seemed fairly straight forward, the other less so.
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2017-11-2600 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 20 - A Blip in the PatternIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I take note of an assumption I had about my Art Soundoff recordings this year.
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2017-11-2200 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 19 - Winding Down the WeekendIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I share some of the things I try to do on a Sunday night to wrap up what I've been doing over the weekend and getting ready for the week ahead.
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2017-11-2000 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 18 - Debating Between Unity and Phaser for My Next Game ProjectIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on the prompt "What tool are you considering changing and why?".
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2017-11-1900 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 17 - Collaboration Comes From Feeling SafeIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on "collaboration" as a prompt I mentioned in my initial post for Art Soundoff 2017.
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2017-11-1800 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 16 - Considering Candid and Soul BearingIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on a response in my Twitter Mentions from Leonard Angelo: "I think that candid can be very helpful and worth the risk. You never know when someone might be able to keep going because someone else was willing to bare a little soul."
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2017-11-1700 minPolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 15 - How Has This Art Journal Thing Been Going?In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on the journal prompt: "How is reflection on your art day affecting you? How do you feel about reflecting on your art day now as compared to the beginning?".
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PolytechnicastPolytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 14 - Four Topic Experiments with Special Guest Pete Stromquist<p>In this episode of the Polytechnicast I am joined by special guest Pete Stromquist. We tried an experiment where we came up with and chatted about four topics to see which ones seemed well suited to our discussion style.</p>
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