I’ve recently become captivated by a specific power of new visual design tools such as Figma and Miro to help very different kinds of minds brainstorm, visualize a company or project and communicate clearly. Somehow visual brainstorming seems to provide an “overview effect” for all stakeholders. I’ve been working in…

The near future. It’s morning, and nightmares again. Perhaps the social worker at the mall can help me to try deal with the insomnia. I text them from bed. “Sure, maybe this has all happened before, maybe you are in some kind of time loop, maybe you’ve said this to…

We’re looking for a few good pre-alpha users to play “Sugar” — our game of social challenges and rewards. We’ve been working on it for several months as our pandemic project and we’re at the point where we need feedback. First I’ll explain the absolute bare-bones basics of how to…

I’ve been advising a friends FAAS (fashion-as-a-service) digital online dress-up doll company and I’ve been reminded of many of the deep behaviors that we as primates have, how badly poor design here is upsetting for us (uncanny valley) and how making digital clothing is at least as much work as…

How we create spaces, and rules, how and how this may be a way for us to re-engage the world in a more healthy way. INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND CONVERSATIONS THROUGH ART As we come to the end of a dramatic election season in the United States, it’s worth stepping back…

Note: if you enjoy the conversations below I’d love for you to join us on November 5th 2020 at: https://futureofmicropayments.web.app If you were William Gibson and you’d dropped a 100 yen coin into Puck Man in the Shibuya District of Tokyo on May 22nd 1980 you might possibly have been able to extrapolate the future that is now unfolding. You’d have felt it at the very least. The dopamine rush of steering your glowing yellow…

This article reviews payment options on the web and then looks at Libra and other options. Introduction Last week Facebook kicked off a plan to introduce a new cryptocurrency named ‘Libra’. This revitalizes an exciting question about the future of the web which is: “How can the future Internet move towards…

Making stuff should be fun! It is my belief that when we work we can sometimes get caught up in producing a result and kind of forget about the process. We pride ourselves on being able to “tough it out” or “grind through it”. …

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” — Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie Recipe. The Web and Mixed Reality go together like chocolate and peanut-butter. …