So on top of a tall pile of design tasks at work, I’ve been keeping busy outside the office as well. I’ve done a fair amount of speaking lately. I spoke at eGaDs last Tuesday, giving a version of the Casino talk I did at AGD. The interesting thing is that I’ve been to Vegas since then, of course (that update is still coming!), so I actually was adding new material to the speech, based on some observations I made on Superbowl weekend. Giving the speech was wierd, because eGaDs focuses almost exclusively on programming, and no one there expressed much interest in breaking into a designer role, but many felt after the speech that they had learned a lot anyway. So that felt good. Continue reading