Episode 006: Calendars

In This Episode

Time. Is it a real thing, or just a way to keep our sanity? Listen in to find out as we talk about wearing foambreros as we present "the bird" to the syllabus, comparing new and old age time tracking methods, all while going through a bit of time dilation. Sean may even squeal like a pig.

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Show Notes

Intro

• The Foam-brero post
• Sam’s foam
• Sam’s completed foam-brero
• Bryan’s white room
• Bryan’s cat picture
• Jony Ive’s white room
• VIDEO: Raptors are taking over the world June 12, 2015 Note: Betsy and Bryan are a thing

Bryan: How we shouldn’t schedule classes (Starts at 5:38)

• Constructivism, Cognitivism, and Behaviorism
• The 5E Instructional Model based on constructivist theory
• The Montessori Method of Education
• VIDEO: Washing windows like a boss
• Benefits and Criticisms of Constructivism
• The Flipped Classroom + Khan Academy
• Rote Learning: Memory versus Intelligence
• When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning
• VIDEO: Suck (on) it, Trebek
• OSHA Compliance Guidance on Training
• Ziploc Gallon Storage Bags
• Postsexualism
• VIDEO: Pig Squeal
• Great Lakes Brewing Company: Christmas Ale

Sean: Calendars as memory collectors (Starts at 17:50)

• Dog Shaming 2015
• Day One Journal
• Timehop: A time capsule of you
• Wikihow (because of course): How to Forget Your Ex-Girlfriend
• Avoiding Old Flames on Facebook
• VIDEO: Throat Strike
• What happened on June 15, 1992?
• VIDEO: The BEST thing that happened on June 15, 1992
• Technology to Safely Live in the Moment
• How to Retain Information
• Prosthetic Knowledge: Informa...

Episode 004: About Bryan Brush

In This Episode

We learn more about the Russian-speaking educational mastermind, Bryan Brush. He's the whipped cream to your existence, making you feel better as you realize your full potential. Hopefully he will remember this episode later in life.

Show Notes

• Who the hell is Bryan Brush?
  • Instructional Designer
  • Educational Technologist
  • Zoo Lights
  • L Brands (the company formerly known as Limited Brands)
• What is your happiest childhood memory?
  • Migraines as a source of memory loss
  • Butterfly Effect (movie)
  • Chaos Theory
• What would 10 year-old Bryan think of current day Bryan?
  • Sonic 2
  • Mega Man
• Why podcasting?
  • Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education by Mark Edmundson
  • The Complete Artist's Way: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice by Julia Cameron
• You're given a box of pencils, what are ten things you can do with these pencils that are not traditional with a pencil?
  • Number 1 Pencils
  • Dalton M. Ghetti's Pencil Sculptures
  • For the gipper
• What do you hope people will remember you for 60 to 80 years from now?
  • Mic drop
• What street sign would you be?
  • The Roundabout
• When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathe?
  • Fear of Breathing
• If a child was born without any senses, would it have a reality?
  • The 5+ Senses
  • Glitching video game
• Sam's long question about a gun.
  • Monty Hall Problem
  • Kramer Entrances

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Episode 002: About Sean Patrick John Paul George Ringo Doran

In this episode

The man behind The Beatles. Get to see the strange and weird inner-workings of Sean Patrick John Paul George Ringo Doran.

Show Notes

• Who is Sean?
  • Sean's Headphones
  • We need to go deeper
  • New Media and Communication Technology + Human-Computer Interaction
• What do you want to do?
  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  • Dublin, Ohio — Heroin Capital of the World
  • Profile of New Heroin Users
  • Reefer Madness
• Where or how do you find inspiration?
  • Dribbble
  • Dribblisation of Design
  • Real History of Twitter
  • Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell
  • The Corporation
• What is the one thing you enjoy the most?
  • Parking lot
• How many walkers have you killed?
  • The Three Questions
  • The Walking Dead
• Why do you want to do a podcast?
  • "Plus it"
  • Jointly Held Story
• Goodbye
  • Red Neon "On Air" Sign
  • iTunes New & Noteworthy
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Episode 32: The Web Design Equation

In this episode:

Feeling overwhelmed with your web design project? Too many things to keep track of? Today Sean shares the system he uses to manage projects — keeping him focused on solving problems instead of worrying about what he’s missing.

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Show Notes & Links

Apps & Tools Mentioned

Pattern Lab

Sketch 3 by Bohemian Coding

Sketch Toolbox

Sketch Mirror by Bohemian Coding

Designing like a Mathematician

Whether it’s designing a website, a mobile app, or something in between, there are five parts to the design equation: Constants, Variables, Constraints, Maximums, and Minimums. When confronted with a large project, it’s helpful to identify what bucket each element of the screen falls into. From there, it’s easier to iterate and refine towards a final solutions. So let’s explore these in a little more detail.

But before we can explore those ideas in more detail, there’s one methodology that will help you out immensely: Atomic Design

Unlike print design, designing digital products, e.g., websites, apps, lend themselves to so many variables that are outside of your control that it can get overwhelming.

But First, Biology and Atomic Design

Atomic Design is a concept that Brad Frost first presented in 2013, and has been refining ever since — even creating Pattern Lab, a tool to help implement this approach to front-end web development. It breaks down the web page into 5 different building blocks:

1. Atoms
2. Molecules
3. Organisms
4. Templates
5. Pages

The idea behind Atomic Design is to create reusable patterns through combining atoms, molecules, and organisms to create templates. With these templates, they can be translated into specific pages. The deeper dive into what each group is, and how it’s defined can be found on Pattern Lab’s about page. For a basic overview:

Atoms

These are the single solitary building blocks of a web page. These would be your headers (h1’s and h2’s) , buttons, and input fields. Just single entities that live by themselves.

Molecules

Take one atom, and combine it with another atom. There’s your molecule. It can have more than two atoms, but the goal is that the molecule performs one function, and it performs it well. Take a block quote with a citation at the end of it. That would be combining the block quote atom with the citation atom to create that molecule.

Organisms

Organisms are combinations of molecules and/or atoms. The best example of an organism would be a header. You have navigation (atom), a logo (atom), a search box, input text, and a search button (all together a molecule). This fits right in with what an organism should be.

Template

This would be a fully composed layout of what kinds of information should be displayed on the page, but not actually filled in with information. T

Page

Now, if you are to take a look at your Facebook Profile, you can see everything that I just mentioned, but filled out with content that makes it a real page.

Onto the Equation

Now that you know what atomic design is, and how it helps you to identify and design reusable patterns, let’s get into the nitty gritty.

Constants

When working in an agile environment, it sometimes feels as if the only constant is change itself. But within a project, there are things that become staples and will never change, or at least they hopefully won’t change for an extended period of time.

Constants can be items such as:

• Brand Logo
• Company or Product Name
• Color Palette
• Typography
• Existing Content

These are more or less the essentials to a basic website

Other than those basic fundamental parts of a web design, there are tons of other constants that are used within ...

Episode 28: Fitness

In this episode:

We explore how physical fitness can help you become more mentally fit, why it's important to design your life around fitness for a healthy lifestyle, and digital solutions to tracking your activity.

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Show Notes & Links

Apps Mentioned

Nike+ Running

Boozed? Widget for easy blood alcohol calculations

Bryan: Exercise and the Ability to Learn

HarVard Medical School

Regular exercise changes the brain to improve memory, thinking skills

The New York Times

How Exercise Can Help Us Learn

Amazon

Revenge of the Nerds

Study.com

What are the Roles of a Teacher?

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Mandatory School Vaccinations: The Role of Tort Law

Amazon

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Sean: Fitness as a Lifestyle

iTunes

How I Met Your Mother

SongKick

Mae, All Get Out, Mike Mains & the Branches

Skully’s Music Diner, Columbus, OH

SlideShare

Beliefs, Values, and Attitudes

iTunes

Freakonomics: Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?

Wikipedia

Cognitive Dissonance

Buffer

How Our Brains Stop Us Achieving Our Goals and How to Fight Back

Sam: Tracking Fitness Goals

Apple

Apple Watch Health & Fitness

Nike

Track, get motivated, and improve with the ultimate running app

Wikipedia

Peter Drucker

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social Entrepreneurs Must Stop Throwing Starfish

9to5Mac

Apple will support reproductive health tracking with HealthKit in iOS 9

Boozed?

An iPhone Widget for easy blood alcoho...