Technology + Design Blog

Touchscreen Toddler
If you haven’t been to the front of my web site, you haven’t seen my daughter using my cell phone at 18 months, and better than my parents use theirs. That’s her below, browsing around, although I photoshopped her app with one of my blog posts.

Is Instructional Design Like Choreography?
I often find myself glancing at the TV while Sesame Street is on for my daughter, and admittedly I watch it more than she does, so on many occasions I’ve seen the following clip.

My Personal Portfolio Hashtag – #nickleffportfolio
About a month ago I ran across this great post about using a personal hashtag to promote your portfolio.
It took me some time to start using my new hashtag because I had to think about how I wanted to use it (and what hashtag I wanted to use).
Eventually I settled

How do you get people talking on an enterprise social network?
I presented this question, and an overly simplified answer last week on Twitter. I say it’s an overly simplified answer but really it’s not, it’s so perfectly expressed in as few words as it should take to tell someone how to use an enterprise social network.
How do you get people to

What I Learned Today
Tweet what you’ve learned today, use the #LrnToday hashtag to share what you’ve learned and learn something new. We live in a social learning era, share and be shared with.
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What’s My Development Process?
A few weeks ago there was a bit of restructuring in my company within my greater department. Several teams had been re-organized into an easier structure. This also meant a new multimedia training team was created, that’s where I went.
This new team was unheard of to the rest of the department. We were to explain the

Command and Control
Many things have gone through my head lately about how safety of private information can be balanced with freedom of information exchange in the enterprise.
It wasn’t until I read a post from Julian Stodd, Denied: outdated models of authority and control in the Social Age that I really felt

Learning Experience As a User Experience
Update: Would this be Training Experience As a User Experience?
I read an article a while ago about user experience design likened to an experience at a restaurant, unfortunately I can’t find it, but I’ll give you

Smartwearables (vs?) Smartphone
Everywhere I look these days there’s news about wearable computing.
Wearable computers are those mini computers that attach to you somehow. In the current form that includes Google Glass and smart watches, I mostly mention Google Glass in this post.
Is Wearable Computing Really Our Future?


Solutions to Bring Mobile Learning to the Enterprise
So far I’ve introduced the topic mobile learning in the enterprise and the challenges and barriers we may experience.
If you haven’t read the first two, I’d recommend starting there before reading this post. Start with the Introduction to Mobile Learning in the Enterprise, then read