reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
She had it coming .
instagram.comwow, sofia isella is so verbal and lyrical.
Building Learning and Fun into Your Applications
The content explores integrating learning and fun from game design principles into applications, emphasizing interaction design, user engagement, and creating effective, enjoyable user experiences.
lostgarden.comA game must teach you new skills only when appropriate, get you to care about a goal, and of course help you have fun. Why are games so good at this when software is so poor at it? This talk teaches you how to build fun software applications.
The idea that we could have so much community with so little effort was an illusion. We are digitally connected to more people than ever and terribly lonely nevertheless. Closeness requires time, and time has not fallen in cost or risen in quantity.
I do not blame anyone but myself for this. This is not something the corporations did to me. This is something I did to myself. But I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.
