Making Lexilotl, my latest game which is a crossword puzzle run where you get a clue and three tries to solve a puzzle and can keep going until your tries run out. I had planned on making ad supported right away but ran into a roadblock and went a different way. Here's the story of that and some of my other explorations in making money by making games. Also, a negative comment on one of the Lexilotl announcement videos gave the the idea to explore this topic.

Related Links and Resources

• ‎Lexilotl - Crossword Puzzle Run - Apple App Store
• Guitar Fretter on Steam
• Rob Stenzinger on TikTok
• Word Turtle Island on Google Play
• Word Turtle Island on Apple's App Store
• Word Turtle Island on Steam
• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)
• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
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Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall
• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
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It's been a busy few months and I'm glad to be back and share some updates, fun projects, and encouragement here on the Polytechnicast. Word Turtle Island is out in the world now 4 months along and I started making my next game already. It's a word puzzle crossword style game called Lexilotl.

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• Rob Stenzinger on TikTok
• Word Turtle Island on Google Play
• Word Turtle Island on Apple's App Store
• Word Turtle Island on Steam
• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)
• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall
• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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Word Turtle Island is now 1.0. Four years in the making and here it is. Officially released on Apple's App Store, Steam, Google Play, and Itch! I share what it's like now with it officially the full version, things I would and wouldn't recommend doing again looking back at the development path of WTI, and a bit about the game I'm prototyping next. Also: WTI won an award for art direction!

Related Links and Resources

• 2D Con Indie Island
• Rob Stenzinger on TikTok
• Word Turtle Island on Google Play
• Word Turtle Island on Apple's App Store
• Word Turtle Island on Steam
• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)
• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall
• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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An intertwined creative challenge: make a more ambitious game than I've made before, make it work as a business, and succeed in marketing it well. In this Polytechnicast I focus on the marketing part of that challenge and what I've learned these past few months publishing a video every single day. Especially the adapting from being stressed about aspects of it to finding framings and habits to make it sustainable, meaningful, and still figuring out the effective part.

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• Rob Stenzinger on TikTok

• Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall

• Word Turtle Island on Google Play

• Word Turtle Island on Steam

• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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Not sure when exactly the marketing push should have started with Word Turtle Island but I do see it needs to be happening now. In this epsisode of the Polytechnicast I'm exploring the creative challenge I started to do daily video posts, while also doing more marketing, while also getting Word Turtle Island ready for it's next updates in June and hopefully 1.0 in July. Remember that time I thought it'd be ready soon a couple years ago? This estimate is more credible but also please be kind considering the source is an optimistic busy artist.

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• Rob Stenzinger (@robstenzinger) on TikTok

• Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall

• Word Turtle Island on Google Play

• Word Turtle Island on Steam

• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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Two main topics this episode. First it's what I've been learning so far with making small videos while exploring topics like teaching interactive design, show and tell about Word Turtle Island, and even video blogging inspired by the old Art Soundoff creative challenge. Second it's about reaching a point of saturation in learning by researching with people playing my game.

The bulk of this I recorded into my watch while running errands so the audio isn't great, but I've reviewed and edited and gotta say there's a lot of good ideas, examples, and encouragement here well worth your background co-working audio time.

Related Links and Resources

• Get exclusive merch and private journal posts via my paywall art blog and merch store at Fourthwall

• Word Turtle Island on Google Play

• Word Turtle Island on Steam

• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
• You can buy me a coffee with an option to send a note along.

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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?

Related Links and Resources

• Fourthwall - Rob Stenzinger's Workshops + Creative Designs + Merch Store

• Word Turtle Island - The Arcade Machine - Photos From Woodworking to Electronics to Finished Cabinet at Midwest Gaming Classic

• Previous episode: Polytechnicast - Teaching Interactive Design and Word Turtle Island Arcade Machine

• Teaching Interactive Design on TikTok

• Word Turtle Island on Google Play

• Word Turtle Island on Steam

• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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Sharing some work in progress and what led me to this point - getting back into teaching interactive design and how I've begun making a physical arcade machine for my game Word Turtle Island. In a nutshell I have a few months of ambitious work and this is my planning and thinking about it all.

Outline:

• Starts with how I focused on making WTI for 2.5 years, summary of why and how that came about.
• Learning from 6 months of further iteration, marketing, and being published as an early access game.
• Big take away is: thankful for the time to learn enough to make enough to discover the strong version of WTI, wishing that space for other folks and projects.
• Current situation:
  • improving the instant visual/story/promise of WTI via
  • feeling the urge to teach again
  • feeling my overall social connections are too small of a bubble both online and in person
  • inspired by projects like Springboard for the Arts' Rural Urban Solidarity
• Then the ambitious plan: a combination of projects to grow my online and in person connections, teach interactive design with an advocacy focus, and increase sales of my games and teaching. In short: make games and teach interactive design. More specific:
  • WTI Arcade Machine + Regional touring show/tell this game and teaching indie game creating
  • Build WTI to full 1.0
  • Teach interactive design for free on TikTok and soon also YouTube
  • Publish new paid classes, starting with Paper Prototyping for Interactive Design

Know of any places and people to connect with who'd like a visit from me on my Word Turtle Island Indie Game Dev Tour? Send me a message!

Related Links and Resources

• Jerzy's free workshops mentioned as inspiration but are currently happening - act fast since they're being offerred now until all sessions are taken

• Teaching Interactive Design on TikTok

• Word Turtle Island on Google Play

• Word Turtle Island on Steam

• Word Turtle Island on Itch (free demo available)

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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A question from someone who knows someone who met me at 2D Con. Every person's path is their own but it's also fun to learn how olther folks got to where they are.

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Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Buy or wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels. NOW ON STEAM
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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Earlier this summer I visited Columbus Ohio to visit my friends Anne and Jerzy Drozd. Part of the plan for our visit was to make some creative experiments together, one of them is this very recording with Jerzy.

For the first time I can think of both he and I are launching products at the same time. Both projects took years of development. Both we made solo. His project is the book The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue and mine is the action + cozy game Word Turtle Island.

In this episode, a special crossover of Thunder Punch Daily + Polytechnicast, Jerzy and I navigate stories of why we made these projects and how we're facing the significant task of marketing to reach the people we know will enjoy what we made. It's a lot like an episode of the Lean Into Art cast which was special to revisit for me, hope it will be for you too.

Related Links and Resources

• The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue - pre-order Jerzy's new book about a bear who catalogs and keeps safe powerful magic items, one day a wizard steals the most powerful artifact, now this academic homebody has to embark on a dangerous adventure and team up with allies to set things right
• Jerzy Drozd - Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
• Word Turtle Island - Details Plus Official Trailer - action + cozy game where you both battle with words as weapons and recover after by tending bookshelves.

• Word Turtle Island - Press Kit

• Word Turtle Island - Google Play

• Word Turtle Island - Steam

• Word Turtle Island - Itch.io

• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
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• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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A new ask me anything form. Some example topics to ask me about like why I made a game for 2.5 years without publishing a whole lot about it publicly. And most important - it's official that Word Turtle Island is going to be available publicly as an early access game on Steam and Google Play June 21, 2024!

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• Word Turtle Island - Details Plus Official Trailer
• Word Turtle Island - Press Kit
• Word Turtle Island on Google Play
• Word Turtle Island on Steam
• Ask Me Anything — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

• Sign up for my newsletter

Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels.
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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About 2.5 years. That's how long I've been working on Word Turtle Island to get it ready to publish as an early access game. It's about the right time to be getting the word out and to get myself into practice with showing up social. Practicing being more present even if it's chaotic and inconsistent. Such as this 20 some minute audio podcast. Hi.

Related Links and Resources

• Tell The Damn Story, 305: How To Dive into Game Writing, And Make Words A Positive Weapon - YouTube
• Word Turtle Island on Steam
• Word Turtle Island — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

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Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support What I Make

• Wishlist Word Turtle Island on Steam.
• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels.
• Join Skillshare via my referral link which gets you 1 month of Skillshare Premium for free.
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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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• Spell's Spelling Practice

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I received a question via my Mastodon account about minimum lovable product vs minimum viable product.

@Nycteris@mastodon.art: "So @robstenzinger I was just reading about “minimum Lovable product” vs “minimum Viable product” because you want to have enough features to maximize love of a core group of users - do you think this is a real strategy?"

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• Audiences and Principles to Help Create Meaningful Products Instead of Bolt-On-UX — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

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• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, and UX design: Skillshare
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Reflecting on game development and how it feels affirming in a way that other video game projects meet delays. I thought I'd have Word Turtle Island ready for first or even early access by now yet I also feel good about how it's coming along.

Related Links and Resources

• Why are so many video games delayed and cancelled? - Verdict

• Why Video Games Are Delayed So Often

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An update about Word Turtle Island and a few other projects I tried to finish this month.

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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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Whether the work that you take on is building on skillful work in the past or not, things got to the way they are for some reason. Now you're here. In this journal I share reasons to find others past work as useful research and signals to help instead of joining a narrative that it has little to no value. Even if that past work wasn't well done, it holds clues and questions to dig into.

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  • Drawing User Journey Maps, make meaningful products with visual collaboration and narrative that combines many perspectives. Get it on Gumroad or Skillshare
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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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• Interactive Storyteller blog

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Games and Classes Rob offers and Ways to Support the Polytechnicast

• Take one of my classes about collaboration, creativity, design:
  • Listening Like a Coach (Video Workshop and PDF Materials), add to your leadership and collaboration skills. Get it on Gumroad or Skillshare
  • Drawing User Journey Maps, make meaningful products with visual collaboration and narrative that combines many perspectives. Get it on Gumroad or Skillshare
  • Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge, find your fun and useful approach to your own creative challenge or a public one, whether you draw, code, write, create a recipe that works for you. Get it on Gumroad or Skillshare
• Get the game Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar. Now with Lefty Flip in the full version and a free demo version with 9 levels.
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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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• Art Soundoff

• Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge, join the class at Skillshare or download your own copy at my workshop store.

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Something I'm grateful for is to be on a learning adventure together with folks I've worked with. At times I get questions from folks who listen to the show and folks I've been on teams with in the past. I'm going to include all this in a category of listener questions and make a few Polytechnicasts based on these questions.

In this episode I get a question from a colleague who is wondering about practicing communication skills coming from a product team and engineering perspective. How could this help with understanding and communicating your own philosophy and values in a collaboration?

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  • Features 4 or 5 string bass, 6 or 7 string guitar, multiple play modes, difficulty levels, and more.
• Creative design coaching services, workshops, and ebooks for ux design, creative coding, creative challenges, goals, and storytelling in Rob's store
  • Drawing User Journey Maps to Gather Ideas and Collaborate
  • Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge
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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.

Related Links and Resources

• Interactive Storyteller blog

• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series

• Polytechnicast - UX Mindset - Creative Roadblocks Then a Book Outline #artsoundoff — Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

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Here I explore some of the reasonable and unreasonable goals I had for this month of journaling and developing the UX Mindset series. Practicing this kind of thing helps you meet your own creative process quirks and explore ways to change and work around those quirks. I recorded so many more rough draft journals than I posted, at least 2:1 if not 3:1. It helped me explore the big topic and discover a concept for a UX Mindset book.

We'll see where the UX Mindset series goes from here. Probably be back on the Polytechnicast, certainly will be in upcoming workshops, and a good chance I'll persue developing a book.

Related Links and Resources

• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• UX Mindset - Lists
• UX Mindset - Listening
• UX Mindset - Groups of People Interconnected
• UX Mindset - Mental Model You're Working Toward
• UX Mindset - Misunderstanding and Misuse of UX's Power
• UX Mindset - Active Learning Is Certain-enough Instead of Overconfident
• Creative challenge I'm taking part in and co-founded with Jerzy Drozd: Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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• Creative design coaching services, workshops, and ebooks for ux design, creative coding, creative challenges, goals, and storytelling in Rob's store
  • Drawing User Journey Maps to Gather Ideas and Collaborate
  • Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge
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Actively learning is a lot like using applied research. It's a very useful place to work from, you can be confident enough to proceed making things yet not too confident to prevent learning as you go.

We setup teams and organizations to sink or swim based on too much certainty. We're certain often from a combination of ego and efficiency seeking without adapting until expensive mistakes happen. What if we practice being confident enough and setup teams to actively learn instead?

And the UX Mindset series continues!

Related Links and Resources

• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• UX Mindset - Lists
• UX Mindset - Listening
• UX Mindset - Groups of People Interconnected
• UX Mindset - Mental Model You're Working Toward
• UX Mindset - Misunderstanding and Misuse of UX's Power
• Creative challenge I'm taking part in and co-founded with Jerzy Drozd: Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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Where does UX go wrong? Whether a system is broken at the surface or takes deeper understanding to see how it's not serving the health of its audience along with it's other constituencies: UX can be used to help fix or to make things worse. How can that be? Organizations have a lot to do to just exist and maintain exsistence. Some are not questioning things they could question to fix what's broken. Let's pay attention, be curious, inclusive and move what we make toward collective health.

And the UX Mindset series continues!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• UX Mindset - Lists
• UX Mindset - Listening
• UX Mindset - Groups of People Interconnected
• UX Mindset - Mental Model You're Working Toward
• Creative challenge I'm taking part in and co-founded with Jerzy Drozd: Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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It's useful to have even a rough concept of what you're working toward, things you know are important or likely to encounter, or at least are worth checking to see if they'd be helpful. For example, a mental model like a creative progression going from rough concept to refined to complete. You can have a UX Mindset informed mental model of getting your work done so that you are working toward including your audience.

And the UX Mindset series continues!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• UX Mindset - Lists
• UX Mindset - Listening
• UX Mindset - Groups of People Interconnected
• A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech | Grand Central Publishing
• Creative challenge I'm taking part in and co-founded with Jerzy Drozd: Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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  • Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge
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Any product we make connects a variety of groups of people. UX Constituencies are groups of people I find relate to most any project/product/system/endeavor: your audience, your team, your organization, the world, and you. Here I explore why considering each of those groups helps you make more meaningful things whether you're a UX expert or any person with a UX Mindset.

And the UX Mindset series continues!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• UX Mindset - Lists
• UX Mindset - Listening
• Creative challenge I'm taking part in and co-founded with Jerzy Drozd: Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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• Creative design coaching services, workshops, and ebooks for ux design, creative coding, creative challenges, goals, and storytelling in Rob's store
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  • Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge
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Listening is the most powerful thing you can do to understand. Here I share a few ways of listening that work individually or combined to meet the needs of you and your team in the moment.

And the UX Mindset series continues!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• UX Mindset - Lists
• Creative challenge I'm taking part in and co-founded with Jerzy Drozd: Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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• Creative design coaching services, workshops, and ebooks for ux design, creative coding, creative challenges, goals, and storytelling in Rob's store
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  • Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge
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Being open to including others is a big start to making something more meaningful. List making is one of the best tools you can use no matter if you identify as a ux designer or not.

This episode continues the UX Mindset series!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• UX Mindset for Artists
• Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

Rob's Products and Ways to Support the Polytechnicast

• Get Guitar Fretter, an action puzzle that makes a game of memorizing the note positions on a guitar.
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  • Features 4 or 5 string bass, 6 or 7 string guitar, multiple play modes, difficulty levels, and more.
• Creative design coaching services, workshops, and ebooks for ux design, creative coding, creative challenges, goals, and storytelling in Rob's store
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Audiences learn about your work, then what's it like for them to learn more, to support your work. If you offer a variety of products how do they find the one they need in this moment? UX Mindset for artists has two distinct and useful concerns:

• Making your work findable, purchasable, useful, and usable
• Including the audience in the work itself

This episode continues the UX Mindset series!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• UX Mindset for Designers
• Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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Advocate for design in order to advocate for and include learning about our audiences. We designers practice many useful skills to help us and those we work with to make inclusive decisions that shape products and systems. Something that can get overlooked along the way: helping others see the value of this including of human context. It's useful to practice helping others learn from their audience and include human centeredness.

This episode continues the UX Mindset series!

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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• UX Mindset for Software Engineering
• Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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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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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series
• UX Mindset for Business
• Art Soundoff — Lean Into Art

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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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• Introduction to the UX Mindset Series

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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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Since I'm taking part in a creative challenge called Art Soundoff (http://artsoundoff.com), I decided to use the workbook from my Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge workshop. Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge is available on Gumroad and Skillshare.

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• Download your own PDF of the workbook to explore and plan your next creative challenge
• The workbook I filled out
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Guitar Fretter is 10 years old and I still have more ideas to add and refine. Some of those ideas I'm putting into a new game, some I'm putting into the classic version of Guitar Fretter. Recently I thought I'd make a quick art update and I expected to be ready to publish in about 4 days. Did things get out of hand where it took 4 weeks instead? Analyzing the list of what to improve and testing along the way, it felt it best to make more improvements. This episode of the Polytechnicast journals my thought process and highlights what happened as I worked on the latest udpate. Also: a brief overview of what is Guitar Fretter.

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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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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 designers to contribute.

In this Polytechnicast I share a summary of the article and explore some additional thoughts surrounding. It would be faster to read the article but then you'd miss out on all this extra commentary.

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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for user experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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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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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for user experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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As a guest instructor I recently taught a class about making use of visual storytelling to serve the product design process in a variety of ways - especially through sketching the stories and visuals as quick doodles.

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• Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through DECEMBER 2019
• For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class
• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for user experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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As part of the Art Soundoff creative challenge, I explore this journal prompt "Outlets". I consider how guitar, drawing, and playing games appeal to me in some contexts as a way to wind down or decompress.

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• Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through DECEMBER 2019
• For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class
• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for user experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
• Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
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As part of the Art Soundoff creative challenge, I explore this journal prompt "3 things about your art". Fantasy art, comics storytelling is something I found later than sooner, and sketching are all building blocks for my work.

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• [Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through DECEMBER 2019: https://gum.co/dujm/artsoundoff
• [For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class: https://skl.sh/2HomR45
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• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller: https://interactive-storyteller.com
• Art Soundoff: http://artsoundoff.com
• Lean Into Art: http://leanintoart.com
• Art and Science Punks: http://artsciencepunks.fireside.fm
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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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• Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through DECEMBER 2019
• For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class
• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for user experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
• Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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Considering how I related to perfectionism in my creative projects making video games about 15 years ago. This influenced things I explored in UX design and in making comics and carry with me to this day.

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• This Panda Needs You - a relaxing block stacking pattern matching game is on SALE for a limited time on all platforms it's on
• Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through DECEMBER 2019
• For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class
• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
• Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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What's sharable, useable, and useful to put in your portfolio? Your UX portfolio is an interesting challenge. Doing the work that leads to a credible conceptual foundation for a product or service doesn't always come with sharable artifacts to curate as a gallery in a portfolio. In any case, finding the story, the goals of your audience, and your goals is a place to consider your portfolio as a design problem.

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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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Thinking about some things I've found helpful for building a useful shared understanding through conversations with your audience, your organization, and your team.

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• Mental Models - Rosenfeld Media
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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
• Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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Thinking about creativity, the label of being a creative, and the relationship between service and expression as a designer.

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• LIA Cast 294 - UX, Obviously — Lean Into Art
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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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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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• For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class
• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
• Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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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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• Slow Dooown - art podcast by Jaques Nyemb
• JΛCQUΞS IN A BOX (@jnyemb) / Twitter
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• For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class
• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
• Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard
• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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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
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
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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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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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• Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders
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In a recent conversation I shared with someone that I can identify with being introverted though in recent years consider myself an ambivert. As I've noticed in previous conversations, the term ambivert is not as well known.

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• Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher, and coach for experience design, games, and collaboration
• Blog of an Interactive Storyteller
• Art Soundoff
• Lean Into Art
• Art and Science Punks
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At the start of a project I've already gathered things that help me commit.

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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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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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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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Continuing the UX for All series I talk about how the series is evolving beyond offering a starting point for UX tools. I describe four groups who each have goals that affect your UX design work: your audience, your organization, your team, and you. Then I describe some of the worthwhile conflict you can uncover through including all four and what might happen if you choose to avoid it.

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Two mini-worksheets I made recently in collaboration with Kate Shields Stenzinger help simplify describing the goals and projects you're working on. We call them the Intentional Planner Tools.

The Goals and Actions planner is about reflection to help plan what's next combined with asking what you're big goals are for the next 5 years.

Then the project concept and project status mini-worksheets help you collect those things you're building and sharing with the world and make it easy to describe why they're important to your audience.

Both are available to download as PDFs.

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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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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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Continuing the UX for All series, I describe attibutes to build into a team so it serves the needs of who's funding it, the audience it's helping, and the people who comprise it.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This episode begins a Summer-mini-season of the Polytechnicast!

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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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Here I wonder about the usefulness of experiment with talking about the gear I use.

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