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Augmented Reality Running Concept

Anything World — Natural Language Generated 3D Environments

Nate Girard Feb 25, 2021

The world of 3D asset creation is evolving more quickly than anyone expected. Open your mind to the possibilities of what an audio-only interface can achieve.

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Augmented Reality Running Concept

Run AR — An Augmented Reality Prototype Exploration

Nate Girard Feb 19, 2021

Augmented reality (AR) has a plethora of use cases just waiting to be explored. I think we all have some ideas of how this technology will shape our daily lives in the near future.

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3D Content Creation is Hard

3D Is Hard and It Shouldn't Be

Nate Girard Feb 16, 2021

There exists a near future where creating content in 3D is so easy everyone can do it. In some ways, it is a reality today! Let’s look at the industry’s current state; figure out what exists and what doesn’t make 3D content creation easy and accessible to everyone.

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Worklist Friction

Worklist UX Friction - Polishing the Experience

Nate Girard Dec 22, 2020

As users and designers, we tend to take for granted a few friction points that we think cannot be changed. Whether deemed too difficult or challenging to solve, or oftentimes the business value doesn’t outweigh the cost to build.

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Worklist Friction

Worklist UX Friction - Work Assignment

Nate Girard Dec 22, 2020

Work lists are present in a variety of cloud applications. Let’s do a deep dive and analyze why humans have a difficult time using their work lists as a team and assigning work to team members.

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Worklist Friction

Worklist UX Friction - List Management

Nate Girard Dec 22, 2020

Work lists are present in a variety of cloud applications. Let’s do a deep dive and analyze why humans have a difficult time using their work lists.

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Worklist Friction

User Experience = Emotional Experience + Psychological Experience

Nate Girard Dec 21, 2020

Humans are best at making decisions based on human judgements and managing human relationships with empathy. Humans are emotional creatures with psychological needs that must also be met in order to succeed and not burn out.

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