Polytechnicast
159 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsArt 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.
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Polytechnicast - Celebrating Finishing Big and Small Tasks
November 09, 2019 02:52 - 14.6 MBA 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 things and doing some reflection on it all. In this Polytechnicast I share where I'm at so far with working on celebrating more. Related Links and Resources Tweet thread: How do you celebrate your accomplishments? Jerzy and Rob team up with the hosts of the Tell the Damn Story podcast, Alex S...
Polytechnicast - Teams as Sustainable Learning Machines (UX for All)
November 07, 2019 21:22 - 23 MBContinuing 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 Resources Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through November 2019 For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class Rob Stenzinger - Maker, teacher...
Polytechnicast - Interactive Halloween Tree
November 06, 2019 06:00 - 13 MBI 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 and Resources Halloween Projects Photo Gallery: Splatoon Inklings + Interactive Tree — Interactive Storyteller Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through November 2019 For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to...
Polytechnicast - User Experience - You Don't Have to Know it All (UX for All)
November 05, 2019 11:31 - 13.3 MBContinuing 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 Links and Resources Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate - on SALE through November 2019 For Skillshare subscribers or those new to Skillshare who'd like to sign up for 2 free months + get the Drawing User Journey Maps class Blog of an Interactive...
Polytechnicast - Challenges
November 04, 2019 12:59 - 11.4 MBResponding 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 SALE through November 2019 Blog of an Interactive Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, an...
Polytechnicast - Notebooks and Sketchbooks
November 03, 2019 21:55 - 15.5 MBIn 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 Storyteller Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders Subscribe to the Po...
Polytechnicast - Electronic Psyduck Repair
November 03, 2019 02:08 - 11.9 MBIn 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 and Resources Photo gallery for this Psyduck repair Big Fun Columbus Art Soundoff Lean Into Art Art and Science Punks Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collab...
Polytechnicast - UX for All - Weather Conditions for Design Decisions
November 02, 2019 02:42 - 17.5 MBIn 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 main topic is considering a weather as a metaphor for good decision making. Related Links and Resources Art Soundoff Guitar Fretter - mobile and deskop game to play and learn the note positions on a guitar fretboard Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration...
Polytechnicast - Re-introduction
November 01, 2019 04:55 - 14.1 MBThe 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 and re-introducing both myself and this show. Related Links and Resources Art Soundoff Coaching for people navigating creative professional decisions, collaboration, and product makers and leaders Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Starting a Business as Product or System
September 15, 2019 05:31 - 12.7 MBThinking 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 that I'm working on. Related Links and Resources Guitar Fretter Drawing User Journey Maps via Skillshare Drawing User Journey Maps via Gumroad (buy once) Coaching product makers and leaders Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - That One Tree
August 05, 2019 06:04 - 15.7 MBA 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 clarity of specialization. Also: thinking about specialization how it works when it's based on you starting something vs. you serving an existing thing or organization. Related Links and Resources Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Guitar Fretter Anniversary Stream
July 27, 2019 03:33 - 36.4 MBGuitar 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 bellies with the correct fret positions to earn health and points. To celebrate the birthday of Guitar Fretter for the next couple days, it's on sale for FREE, available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac: http://guitarfretter.com Originally this was streamed live at: twitch. Related Links and...
Polytechnicast - Projects With a Useful-Enough Next Step
July 09, 2019 03:21 - 14.8 MBContinuing 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 Zoo Comics - No Remorse Riverhorse In the Land of the Rabbits Drawing User Journey Maps to Design User Experiences, Gather Ideas, and Collaborate (get 2 months of Skillshare free by signing up via this link) ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe ...
Polytechnicast - It's Not The Tools Except When It Is
June 17, 2019 13:46 - 16.2 MBWhen 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! Related Links and Resources Impromptu® Full Whiteboard Screen, 42 x 72 | Safco Products Jerzy Drozd (@jerzydrozd) • Instagram photos and videos Kim Holm (@denungeherrholm) • Instagram photos and videos Seeing and Drawing Happy Characters Like the Happiest Kitty In the Universe (FREE class on...
Polytechnicast - Creative Challenge Reflection and What if
November 30, 2018 23:50 - 20.9 MBThis 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 wider reaching with different topics and media. And I share thoughts on what might be next for the Polytechnicast. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Comfort Food Video Games, an Audio Experiment with Patrick Greenwell
November 29, 2018 04:09 - 18.4 MBDo 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 experiment Polytechnicast I'm joined by co-host Patrick Greenwell, a long time video game enthusiast and we explore what games are like comfort food to us and why. Related Links and Resources Dead Cells Rogue Legacy Golden Axe on Sega Genesis GI Joe on NES Street Fighter II Arcade Card Fighters C...
Polytechnicast - Thinking About and Working with Data for UX and Overall
November 28, 2018 17:30 - 21.5 MBHere 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 ways, this is a post is a mix of ideas about being excited about learning from and then presenting what you learn through gathering, exploring, then presenting data. Related Links and Resources Explorable Explanations Rob Stenzinger - Tools I Use Social Science | Explorable Explanations Projec...
Polytechnicast - Inktober and Useful Creative Challenge Output
November 28, 2018 06:30 - 21.5 MBFor 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 projects. Related Links and Resources Rob Stenzinger on Instagram JetPens Brush Pen Sampler 2 - JetPens.com Inktober Sketchbook Summer ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 11 - Being a Collaborative Facilitator
November 27, 2018 04:58 - 17.9 MBThis 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 and habits to consider how you can actively help a group of collaborators connect and clarify ideas. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Games I Didn't Finish and Learned From
November 26, 2018 12:36 - 13.8 MBAs 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 on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Reflecting on an Old Party Invitation Project
November 26, 2018 05:14 - 12.2 MBIt'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 Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Two Pizza Team, a Comic + Game Hypothesis
November 24, 2018 13:10 - 17.8 MBIn 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 done so far for the video game Two Pizza Team, part two of the comic+game hypthesis. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Project Mountain Carver
November 23, 2018 17:04 - 11.1 MBProject Mountain Carver is a big project, incorporates all the things I do professionally, and has built into it ways to keep me encouraged during the long process of accomplishing multi-year-spanning goals. Related Links and Resources TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Drafting Text via Audio
November 23, 2018 04:55 - 8.9 MBHere I share my approach to recording my thoughts in audio form as a step to creating other documents. Related Links and Resources VLC media player Just Press Record ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 10 - Decision Making and Influencing Decisions
November 23, 2018 04:31 - 14.6 MBContinuing the UX #artsoundoff series, here I talk about how so much of what your design work is about is getting decisions to happen and to get the system/product/thing made. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Feeling Less Daunted by Deadlines
November 23, 2018 03:55 - 5.39 MBBeing behind where I'd hoped to be with Art Soundoff is a good chance to think about strategies to keep working at the work instead of worrying about a number goal. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Is it Useful to Talk About the Gear I Use?
November 23, 2018 03:54 - 11.9 MBA number of people I follow on social media and on podcasts do a great job talking about and exploring why they choose tools they use to create. Becca Hillburn, Krishna Sadasivam, and Dave Seah come to mind immediately. Here I wonder about the usefulness of experiment with talking about the gear I use. Related Links and Resources DICTOPRO V100 Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard Dave Seah | Investigative Designer SivamStudios: The Portal for Everything Krishna M. Sadasivam Nattosoup Studio Art...
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 9 - Things You Can Make That Help with Systemic-Minded Human-Centered Design
November 21, 2018 03:48 - 21.4 MBContinuing the UX #artsoundoff series, here I talk about things you can make based on data, storytelling, presenting information and helping others be able to relate and participate in the design process. These things (documents, artifacts, deliverables) are forms of documenting designs and what you learn to support the designs. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Two Artists Supporting Themselves and Each Other with Guest Kate Shields Stenzinger
November 17, 2018 22:37 - 19.9 MBWherein Kate asks me "what kinds of things do we do to support each other emotionally with creative projects?", we talk about getting and giving feedback, and creative accountability meanings. Related Links and Resources Art and Science Punks Kate Shields Stenzinger (@kateshieldsstenzinger) • Instagram photos and videos Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 8 - Priming and Design Ethics
November 17, 2018 16:35 - 13 MBIn this update in the UX series I talk about priming in how it affects your research to learn about what you're making or even can affect you-yourself via what you experience frequently. Related Links and Resources 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter) (8580001054513): Susan Weinschenk: Books The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind - Kindle edition by Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson. Availability ...
Polytechnicast - Talisman in my Pocket
November 17, 2018 07:34 - 11.9 MBIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I talk about the talisman I carry in my pocket which is a metal stamped pair of words "compassion" and "completion". Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 7 - Underlying Complexity is Easy to Overlook, Going Faster By Slowing Things Down
November 14, 2018 12:18 - 14.9 MBIn this update in the UX series I talk about how it's easy to want to jump to something complete in one big step yet it's less risky and likely faster to add a some steps. Related Links and Resources Human Centered Design Method Example - IDEO's Design Kit ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 6 - The Need for Design as a Hat and as a Job
November 14, 2018 04:04 - 8.46 MBContinuing the UX series I talk about how UX design can both be a deeply involved job with advanced practitioners and also UX design can be useful when in the hands of someone learning on the job. Related Links and Resources Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Making a Video Game Side Project Part 5 - Weekend Progress
November 12, 2018 06:18 - 18 MBThis last weekend I had what I call a "creative marathon" on the Two Pizza Team project. I share an update with where the project is at, tool choices, and what things I'll be working on next. Related Links and Resources Unity Creature Animation: Automated 2D Skeletal Animation Tool ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 5 - Why Care About Being a Facilitator
November 11, 2018 06:22 - 17.5 MBThis time in the UX series I talk about how and why having principles and practices that help a group of people share and combine ideas is super important whether your project is just you and a client or you and a bunch of other collaborators. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 4 - Ingredients of a Thoughtful Meeting
November 10, 2018 06:22 - 14.6 MBContinuing the UX series, this time I talk about how and why the things you setup before people gather to work on something is important and useful to user centered design. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - A Visit From Jerzy Drozd
November 09, 2018 13:19 - 5.85 MBIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I have Friend, Cartoonist and Teaching Artist Jerzy Drozd on to learn the story of what actually happened with an autographed birthday gift. Related Links and Resources - Jerzy Drozd - Cartoonist/Teaching Artist ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 3 - Expressing Ideas So Others Can Participate
November 08, 2018 12:12 - 23.4 MBWherein I continue my encouraging everyone to consider using UX related tools and skills. This time I describe how user experience design can take a variety of useful forms: goals, rationale, document, activity, story, hypothesis and most of all expressing ideas so others can participate. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 2 - Research
November 07, 2018 13:00 - 14.6 MBWherein I continue my encouraging everyone to consider using UX related tools and skills, this time I highlight user centered research. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - User Experience Design Overview (UX for All) Part 1
November 07, 2018 04:21 - 13 MBIf any discipline can be inclusive of people from all backgrounds it should be User Experience. Here I begin a series of posts about highlighting useful UX tools and skills. Also I invite anyone making something or part of a team that makes something for people to give the systemic human centered tools of UX a try. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Making a Video Game Side Project Part 4 - Why I Chose Unity
November 05, 2018 05:12 - 15.5 MBWherein I describe raw to fully cooked game engines and how I used my design constraints to choose a game engine for Two Pizza Team. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Making a Videogame Side Project Part 3 - Choosing a Game Engine
November 04, 2018 16:11 - 14.4 MBHere I talk about past game engines and tools I've used such as Director, HTML/Javascript, Flash, Corona SDK, Phaser that led me to be ready to choose a game engine for Two Pizza Team. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Making a Videogame Side Project Part 2
November 03, 2018 10:03 - 11.1 MBWherein I continue some thoughts about kinds of video game side project commitments. Also I relate that to an interesting place I encountered that makes their own games, is also an arcade, and does games UX research at the very same venue. Related Links and Resources Twobitcircus ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Making a Videogame Side Project Part 1
November 02, 2018 14:33 - 6.85 MBWherein I start one of my audio blogging categories for the month: making a videogame as a side project. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Intentions and Introduction
November 01, 2018 04:05 - 9.47 MBWherein I introduce myself and share my hopes and fears for what I'd like to do with my posts for this year's Art Soundoff creative challenge. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Ready for Art Soundoff 2018
October 31, 2018 12:54 - 9.51 MBArt Soundoff 2018 begins tomorrow, will you be joining in to listen, to capture your own art journal, or both? Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Week to Week Goals Feedback with guest co-host Pete Stromquist
September 05, 2018 03:54 - 59.3 MBIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I have guest co-host Pete Stromquist with me to explore our approaches to keeping connected with our goals. In particular we dive into: how do we find ways to connect day to day and week to week with bigger goals? Also, how might we do this in a useful and not-too-intense way? And along the way we discuss physical tools and digital tools we use to help with goal tracking, journaling, and self-interviewing. Related Links and Resources The Emergent Task ...
Polytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 24 - Gratitude and Retrospective
December 01, 2017 02:50 - 14 MBIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I look back at Art Soundoff 2017, some things I learned, some things I want to celebrate, and express gratitude for those who took part and tuned in to all the art journaling. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 23 - An Open Internet
November 30, 2017 04:10 - 9.08 MBIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I consider Net Neutrality and how an open internet has been so important for my career, my art and learning. Related Links and Resources A Lump of Coal in the Internet’s Stocking: FCC Poised to Gut Net Neutrality Rules | Electronic Frontier Foundation ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher
Polytechnicast - Art Soundoff 2017 Day 22 - Fitness Has Many Facets
November 28, 2017 00:56 - 10.9 MBIn this episode of the Polytechnicast I explore the prompt "fitness", how has many areas of concern and how I'm inconsistent about it. Related Links and Resources ArtSoundoff Follow all the Art Soundoff posts on Twitter Lean Into Art Subscribe to the Polytechnicast RSS feed in your podcatcher