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I work in education… Why do I have to use tools from Service Design, UX and Agile?

Aug 8, 2018

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in Design, Design Principles, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Export Education, Good Design, Indigenous education, International education, Lean education, Service Design, Uncategorized, UX

Thank you, I understand. Welcome to the Brave New World. Your job and mine now require new kinds of tools and approaches. These tools and approaches aren’t part of the regular toolbox of tools most of us are familiar with in academic work. I’m talking about education but the same could equally apply to other…

You Need To Read This: Badass – Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

Apr 25, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Game design, Good Design, Uncategorized, UX

I’m about half way through a very cool book at the moment. It’s by Kathy Sierra who is now one of my internet heroes. You can watch the book trailer above. But you should really go to Amazon and order it. Or download it. It’s about User Interface Design. Or UX. This is a kind…

How Should I Decide…?

Apr 23, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Uncategorized

Here’s something else that I’ve been thinking about recently: What criteria should I use to make decisions? It’s easy to say yes to things. But it’s much harder to say no. Recently, I’ve compiled and collected several decision-making heuristics. A heuristic is like a mental shortcut. A tool for helping to make quick decisions. They don’t…

How Should We Evaluate Our Training?

Apr 21, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Evaluation, Game design, Good Design, Instructional, Question, Questions, Uncategorized, UX

I’m changing how I think about course evaluation… And how everything should be evaluated. Here’s a new set of questions. Try them out for yourself after the next training session you deliver. Or attend. Or after any new experience: What did that experience enable? What can I now do? What can I now show others? What will…

Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…

Red Peak: How To Compare The Different Flag Choices

Oct 1, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Design Principles, Flag, Flags, Good Design, New Zealand, NZ, Red Peak, RedPeak, Simon Smith

So my bro Simon allegedly started the Red Peak social media campaign. I already linked to his first post about this here. And after flying Red Peak at half mast for a few days (after we thought all was lost), it was great to see that those in power changed their minds. Now it looks…

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I work in education… Why do I have to use tools from Service Design, UX and Agile?

You Need To Read This: Badass – Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

How Should I Decide…?

How Should We Evaluate Our Training?

Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Red Peak: How To Compare The Different Flag Choices