Hey folks, There’s a free sample chapter of the book (Design For How People Learn) available here: https://usablelearning.com/the-book/sample-chapter/ It’s Chapter 8: Design for Motivation (In which we learn that we don’t always learn the right thing when we learn from experience, and that the elephant is a creature of habit) If you…
A friend of mine just tweeted this a little while ago: Which means that YAY! The book is shipping! And it’s a whole week earlier than I thought! Which is great! Except that I’m not *quite* ready! But it’s still great! In my last post, I asked folks for ideas…
Hmm, it’s three weeks until the book comes out, which is really, really exciting. I’m trying to figure out what to do on the blog in the run-up to publication date (November 21). If you have any ideas, let me know!
…at how sad I was to hear about Steve Jobs. I would not have expected to choke up about it, but I did. From XKCD: Eternal Flame
After the last post, a few people discussed in the comments about how you actually go about adding friction to learning. Kathy Sierra in particular referenced Dan Meyer, a math teacher/blogger, who is my favorite resource on this. He doesn’t specifically reference friction, but he talks about how to “be less…