Polytechnicast
Art journal podcast by Rob Stenzinger, sharing thoughts on his various creative projects and adventures ranging from user experience design, creating comics, making video games, to interactive design.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Polytechnicast - UX Mentoring Revisited and Guest Teaching Design
Sharing your time to listen, learn, and help connect others to the community you've been part of is a worthwhile endeavor. In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on some recent volunteering …
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Perfectionism in Making Video Games, Comics, and UX
Considering how I related to perfectionism in my creative projects making video games about 15 years ago. This influenced things I explored in UX design and in making comics and carry with me to this…
Tue 26 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - UX Portfolios as a Design Problem (Practicing UX for All)
What's sharable, useable, and useful to put in your portfolio? Your UX portfolio is an interesting challenge. Doing the work that leads to a credible conceptual foundation for a product or service do…
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - 3 Ideas About Getting Useful Data from Conversations (Practicing UX for All)
Thinking about some things I've found helpful for building a useful shared understanding through conversations with your audience, your organization, and your team. Related Links and Resources Mental…
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - UX vs Creative Voice (Practicing UX for All)
Thinking about creativity, the label of being a creative, and the relationship between service and expression as a designer. Related Links and Resources LIA Cast 294 - UX, Obviously — Lean Into Art D…
Sun 24 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - How is Art Soundoff 2019 Going So Far
Even though there's a few more days to go in this year's Art Soundoff creative challenge, I'm looking at my experience of this year's challenge asking what went well and what could be better. Related…
Sun 24 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Creative Work and Health Thoughts and Replies to the Slow Dooown Podcast
This summer indie creator and publisher Jaques Nyemb shared and 8-episode fascinating thoughtful and fun micropodcast series called Slow Dooown. Each episode Jaques asks a question of the audience an…
Fri 22 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Drawing Some Posters
While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you drawing?" I describe some of the drawings I'm working on now and how they are based on holiday gifts I created last year. Related Links a…
Wed 20 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Learning for Business and for Casual
While exploring the Art Soundoff journal prompt "what are you learning?" I share a few things I'm learning in both a business context and casual play context. Related Links and Resources Drawing User…
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Plausible Introvert, Extrovert, or Ambivert
In a recent conversation I shared with someone that I can identify with being introverted though in recent years consider myself an ambivert. As I've noticed in previous conversations, the term ambiv…
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Beginning a Project
At the start of a project I've already gathered things that help me commit. Related Links and Resources Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE t…
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Choosing a Favorite Tool is Difficult
I share a few options for my favorite tool and consider how I probably have a bunch of favorite things that help me with understanding, considering, and solving problems. Related Links and Resources …
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Human Business Endeavor Sim (Practicing UX for All)
I share an idea about making a game of exploring options and scenarios for combining different parts of a business to solve problems for the audience. Related Links and Resources Drawing User Journey…
Sun 17 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Stuck and Unstuck Creative Projects
Thinking about how I get moving again on creative projects feels related to how I got stuck in the first place. Related Links and Resources Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gathe…
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Serving Four Groups to Practice UX for All
Continuing the UX for All series I talk about how the series is evolving beyond offering a starting point for UX tools. I describe four groups who each have goals that affect your UX design work: you…
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Intentional Planner Tools
Two mini-worksheets I made recently in collaboration with Kate Shields Stenzinger help simplify describing the goals and projects you're working on. We call them the Intentional Planner Tools. The Go…
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Crispy Baked Tofu
My approach and steps I take for making very yummy baked tofu you can add to so many kinds of dishes or eat as-is. Related Links and Resources Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Ga…
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Video Games I'm Playing
Video games have been and continue to be an influential life long interest for me. In this Polytechnicast I talk about what I'm playing lately which includes some really old games. Related Links and …
Mon 11 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Celebrating Finishing Big and Small Tasks
A few weeks back I noticed how I've developed a habit of moving past completing tasks big or small without celebrating and since then I've been talking with others about how they celebrate finishing …
Sat 09 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Teams as Sustainable Learning Machines (UX for All)
Continuing the UX for All series, I describe attibutes to build into a team so it serves the needs of who's funding it, the audience it's helping, and the people who comprise it. Related Links and Re…
Thu 07 Nov 2019
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