Problem Solving

Designing Online Learning

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When I am designing an online course, I use lots of check lists and charts to help guide me. Then,  when reading an articles on Three Keys That Make Good Interaction Design Great, these words stood out to me:

  • Optimizing: Making daily activities more efficient
  • Engaging: Capturing attention, creating delight and delivering meaning
  • Empowering: Enabling people to go beyond their limits
  • Expressing: Encouraging self expression and/or creativity
  • Connecting: Facilitating communication between people and communities
  • Disrupting: Re-imagining completely an existing product or service by creating new behaviors, usages or markets.

Hello, this list can be used to double check an online course.  Are these being represented in the course I’m designing? Why can’t a check list, like this one, be used to help create some dynamic online design?  I say “Yes it can!”

MasterMind Meetups

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I’ve been working with the members of my own Mastermind Group: two women with whom I have been meeting with-virtually- now for over a year.  We just launched our own website  MasterMind Meetups which is built to support you as you grow your business by integrating technology with networking.

Here, you no longer are limited physically when networking. We give you the opportunity to share, create and look into new mastermind formats, which enable you to create new alliances and accelerate your business.

We will assist you in connecting with others by:

  • Guiding you in choosing a Focus Level best suited to you.
  • Offering Group Forums for chatting, document storage, emails and an Interactive Community.
  • Pushing physical limitations and providing access to experts and information you might not otherwise encounter.
  • Sharing cutting-edge technology and tools to enable you to thrive within your mastermind network.

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Content in Context

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Just like a carpenter, web designers need to know when to use the right tools. A big part of designing is problem solving.  No, I should re-phrase that, a big part of living is problem solving and we need more of these skills in life.

So, in a recent query I received, Brenton wanted to develop a blogging site comparable to this site.

WordPress will make your websites and you might want to look into making css code out of your PSD [PhotoShop Documents].  Check it out.

Building iPhone Apps

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For the last few weeks, on Mondays, I get myself over to the new Ford Building on the Smith College Campus. Now, I’m the first to admit, I am not a programmer.  However, as a designer I’m intrigued with development and thus am assisting Lou Franco with ‘testing’ some chapters of his soon-to-be-published book.

Lou has the patience of a saint. St. iPhone or St. Xcoder is how I like to refer to him.  He is a great teacher! In class, he sometimes tends to run through code pretty quickly when he is showing examples.

Some of the stuff we cover in our workshop goes over my head….Lou does move thru the information.  But I am happy-no, I am joyous to say, I get most of it! I mean, come on everyone has an idea for an iPhone app. A few that have just recently come to mind:

  • A Shit List App: something you could interface with that would assist you in being sure others met your criteria for being on your Shit List. And, of course, there would be some type of meter or rating system.  Maybe it could even connect with your Contact list? Humm…..the possibilities. [Note: this is obviously a bit of a joke here.  Then again, who knows….maybe there is something to this.  Humm.].
  • Then there is this behavioral app I’m working on….I can’t reveal the name just yet….let’s just say the market is for parents to use when their child isn’t behaving in the manner the parent prefers.  This one is still in development stages.
  • And then, an app to help you ‘know’ what types of organic foods are currently ‘ripe and ready-to-pick’. This needs to coordinate with locate organic farmers and dovetail with their crop growth charts….however, I firmly believe there is a need for this.  Especially, as we grow more conscious of the foods we eat, where we buy those foods and in getting the freshest possible foods-locally.

If  you have an idea for an iPhone app [or iPad app for that matter]. Leave me a comment….maybe we can get started on one.  After all, I have a classroom full of Techie-Developers all of whom I am sure would love to develop a iPhone app.