Dan Pink + Social Psychology + Awesome Sketching

Posted: June 17th, 2010 | Filed under: Have you seen this?, Thinking | Tags: , , | Comments Off

Here is a fantastic video detailing a study about what motivates us at work. Turns out it’s not money.

“If we start treating people like people, and not assume that they’re horses; you know, slower, smaller, better-smelling horses… we can actually build organizations that make us and our work lives better off, and I think they have the promise of making our world just a little bit better.”

Thanks to Ann for this!

mkeUX is Launched!

Posted: June 10th, 2010 | Filed under: Stuff I've Done | Tags: , | Comments Off

mkeUX: Hugfest!

mkeUX: Hugfest!

Last night was mkeUX‘s inaugural meeting, and it was great! About 30 Milwaukee-area UX’ers, designers, developers, project managers and strategists gathered at Lightburn for a talk on content strategy and a few barley pops.

After my kickoff content strategy presentation, Appropriate, Inc.’s Margot Bloomstein schooled us all on how to sell CS into projects. As my friends at mkeUX say, Hugfest!

Here’s the presentation I gave:

Content Strategy: It’s Not All Greek

View more presentations from Gretchen Thomas.