Our special guest this week on The Digital Life is design strategist, Ben Sauer, who’s investigating the idea of secret design skills for his new book. Design is filled with cross-pollination from other fields, from writing to architecture, acting to
The Digitial Life #257: Sustainable UX
On The Digital Life this week, we discuss the environmental price of technology and the growing need for sustainable design and UX. A series of research studies has detailed the increasing carbon footprint of the tech industry. The largest contributor
#192 Engineering Game Design with Aljernon Bolden
Aljernon Bolden – @AljernonBolden, harebrained-schemes.com Dirk Knemeyer – @DKnemeyer, artana.com, dirk@artana.com Harrison Pink – @gilespink, harrisonpink@gmail.com Episode Outline – 00:06 Introductions – 00:18 About Aljernon – 01:10 Aljernon describes a recent night of gaming that turned out to be a
The Game Design Round Table #167: Listener Mail April 2017
Description Dirk and David are joined by Owlchemy Labs’ Chelsea Howe to talk about Virtual Rick-Ality and the new frontier of VR. Chelsea’s involvement with VR goes back to her days at EA and she continues to be on the
The Game Design Round Table #166: John Harper
Description Dirk and Kathryn are joined this week by designer John Harper, the mind behind Blades in the Dark. John’s transition to full-time developer has been helped by his fans that support him via Kickstarter and Patreon – this following
The Digital Life #200: Celebrating 200
Episode Summary On The Digital Life this week, we celebrate our 200th episode with a look back at some of the themes and guests that shaped the show over the past 7 years, including those at the top of their
The Digital Life #158: Writing Human Code
Episode Summary On this episode of The Digital Life, we discuss the plan to create a complete artificial human genome. A few weeks ago, scientists, entrepreneurs, and government officials met in a closed door meeting at Harvard University at an
The Digital Life #155: Designing Embeddables
Episode Summary On this episode of The Digital Life, we discuss designing embeddables in light of the news last week that the U.S. Patent Office approved Google’s patent for electronic lens technology, which is implantable directly in the eye. Of
The Digital Life #153: Smart Cities and Sidewalk Labs
Episode Summary On this episode of The Digital Life we discuss Google’s Sidewalk Labs and its radical plans to design a smart city from scratch. Sidewalk Labs wants to work with cities to build applications that solve big urban problems
The Game Design Round Table #144: Chris Zinsli and Cardboard Edison
Description Dirk and David are joined by designer and board game community member Chris Zinsli. Chris and his wife Suzanne are the founders of Boardgame Edison, a resource for designers of board games. Their blog and other media have helped