Big is beautiful, but repetitive is powerful

Weddings are wonderful events that celebrate love. But it’s the date nights that make the love flourish.

I am in awe of humanity’s collective accomplishments in art, music and engineering. But they are the sum of many people taking small steps forward.

A design research projects can define the outlines of a new product. But it’s in the continuous discovery work that the real value of the product is created.

Don’t get caught up in the allure of the big. Real progress happens a little at a time. Do smaller. Repeat.

The concepts of “becoming” and “performativity” are very close to what I mean.

NISO conference talk: From somewhat awful to pretty great for librarians, a new e-commerce tool

We started building an e-commerce tool for librarians to license individual eBooks. The first version was partly good, partly awful. It is getting better, a little at a time.

Interaction design: The Bolibompa dragon

Part 13 of 13 in the series Some of my skills.

All adults know that dragons giggle when they are tickled. But many kids have not found that out yet. So we in the Bolibompa team set out to build a digital dragon who kids relate to and whom they want to tickle! A Ticklish Mission.

Design research: How we 3 to 5 year olds behave

Part 12 of 13 in the series Some of my skills.

Sure, we are individuals. But when we are given an iPad many of us behave quite predictably. We always relax ... and are always active.

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