by Richard Carey | May 7, 2020 | Marketing, Tips & Advice
A few days ago an illustration of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs showed up in my Facebook feed and caught my eye. It was marked up with a crayon pointing out “we are here” which I thought really cut through the fog of stories we tell ourselves, and changed the...
by Richard Carey | Jan 17, 2018 | User Experience Design
The recent “Imminent Missile Attack” alert in Hawaii shows the importance of investing in User Experience design. Take a quick look at the ‘dashboard’ where these alerts were triggered and it’s amazing this never happened before, with...
by Richard Carey | Mar 15, 2012 | Marketing, Learning Games & Simulations, User Experience Design
What’s old is new again, and I’m not talking about Cracker Jacks. They never went away, and neither did the “prize” inside. The old and new that I’m talking about is gamification – the application of game mechanics and techniques to make...
by Richard Carey | Mar 28, 2011 | Learning Games & Simulations, Social Media, Educational Technology
Do you hear what I hear? After reading Social Networking in Schools on the Huffington Post today, I recognized that nearly every project I’ve worked on over the past year has pointed towards a new round of convergence — a mash-up of social media,...
by Richard Carey | Jul 8, 2009 | The Anthropocene
My fireworks this 4th of July were following naturalists E. O. Wilson, Peter Alden and 150 others around with a video camera as they tried to identify at least 2009 species within the confines of Walden Woods – the towns of Concord, Carlisle and Lincoln,...