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 - Interactive Halloween Tree
I finished a few spare time projects for Halloween this year: 8 props for me an my family's costumes. One project that caught my imagination and but didn't finish: my Halloween Tree. Related Links an…
Wed 06 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - User Experience - You Don't Have to Know it All (UX for All)
Continuing the UX for All series, I combine a "why" and "don't have to know it all" set of prompts, considering how choosing to collaborate, investigate, and design is a very useful thing. Related Li…
Tue 05 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Challenges
Responding to "challenges" as a prompt, I share some brief thoughts on creative challenges and why I find them so useful. Related Links and Resources Customizing Your Next Creative Challenge - on SAL…
Mon 04 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Notebooks and Sketchbooks
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I talk about my recent notebook and sketchbook review and what I found digging through a few years of books. Related Links and Resources Blog of an Interactive S…
Sun 03 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Electronic Psyduck Repair
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I reflect on how I recently purchased a broken Psyduck and fixed it up. Working with electronics is relatively new to me so this was a fun puzzle. Related Links …
Sun 03 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - UX for All - Weather Conditions for Design Decisions
In this episode of the Polytechnicast I continue the UX for All series by re-introducing it, how I'm picking various topics about collaborative design + research and sharing what comes to mind. The m…
Sat 02 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Re-introduction
The Polytechnicast is this ongoing journal and fairly infrequent most times of the year except for November. Kicking things off for Art Soundoff 2019 with journaling intentions for the month ahead an…
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Polytechnicast - Starting a Business as Product or System
Thinking about how as an artist I'm also excited and interested in the business side of work, how that's been one of the themes of my career so far. Also the three part business of make, teach, coach…
Sun 15 Sep 2019
Polytechnicast - That One Tree
A few things I encountered today had me thinking about specialization and how could I pay attention to some signals that help me with being both a generalist creator and deisgner and appreciating the…
Mon 05 Aug 2019
Polytechnicast - Guitar Fretter Anniversary Stream
Guitar Fretter is a game about of memorizing the note positions on the guitar. If you play an instrument with strings and frets, you might want to check out. Match the notes on the floating monsters …
Sat 27 Jul 2019
Polytechnicast - Projects With a Useful-Enough Next Step
Continuing the mini-summer-season of the Polytechnicast with some thoughts about making more things than I share even though I do like to share work in progress. Related Links and Resources Art Geek …
Tue 09 Jul 2019
Polytechnicast - It's Not The Tools Except When It Is
When we look at other artist's processes it's fun to consider the tools they use while knowing the tools only tell part of the story. This episode begins a Summer-mini-season of the Polytechnicast! R…
Mon 17 Jun 2019
Polytechnicast - Creative Challenge Reflection and What if
This post is my look back at Art Soundoff 2018 in the style of what went well and what could have been better. Also, I consider a what-if about creative challenges becoming even more frequent and wid…
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - Comfort Food Video Games, an Audio Experiment with Patrick Greenwell
Do you have a video game or set of video games you revisit from time to time because they feel comfortable? What keeps these sorts of games interesting and worth coming back to? In this audio experim…
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - Thinking About and Working with Data for UX and Overall
Here I explore a variety of things about working with data ranging from: exploring it, visualizing it, and things that inspire me to try to provide more ways of interacting with data. In a lot of way…
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - Inktober and Useful Creative Challenge Output
For this year's Inktober, which is a 31 day creative challenge to make and share a drawing every day in October, I chose to both partake and to try to get output that could help one of my other proje…
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 11 - Being a Collaborative Facilitator
This time in the UX series I continue the topic of facilitating meetings, started a few posts ago in UX for All Part 5 - Why Care About Being a Facilitatator. Here are more thoughts on the principles…
Tue 27 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - Games I Didn't Finish and Learned From
As I started to make video games, I found a variety of things I learned even though I didn't finish those initial projects. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts o…
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - Reflecting on an Old Party Invitation Project
It's My Party was a project about making it easy to send and manage responses to invitations. Here I reflect on it as one of those things I've shelved but maybe not permanently. Related Links and Res…
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Polytechnicast - Two Pizza Team, a Comic + Game Hypothesis
In June 2018 I finished Two Pizza Team: In a Situation Called No Trash Talk, part one of my hypothesis that a game + comic will serve one another and an audience well. Here I describe the work I've d…
Sat 24 Nov 2018
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