A: Ideas for advancing user experience in the evolving knowledge workplace.

More specifically, I will be using this space to iteratively write the next two titles in Flashbulb Interaction’s “Application Concepting Series” of publications:

• “Opportunity Mapping: A Working through Screens Sketchbook”
• “Application Snapshots: A Working through Screens Sketchbook”

By iteratively blogging draft content for these publications, I hope to gather feedback from readers like you.

As the titles suggest, each of these publications will be extensions of Flashbulb Interaction’s first book, “Working through Screens: 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work.”  These two new volumes will showcase a variety of ways that product teams might apply the 100 envisioning ideas to early, strategic phases of application definition and design.

Since “Working through Screens” was an intensive writing project, these next two volumes are going to focus more on visuals – on showing instead of telling. In keeping with the “sketchbook” idea, these projects will also be shorter and more open in format.  In general, both publications will be made up of a series of discrete “sketches,” with each idea presented in a two page “illustration and explanation” spread.  Since each spread of content will be self contained, my hope is that these new works will be especially well suited to being drafted as blog posts, right here at www.ApplicationConcepting.com.

When this blog is eventually full of content, and the two “Working through Screens Sketchbooks” have come together from the sum of all the parts, the plan is to make each publication available as free .pdf files and as print on demand books.

Sound interesting?  Have ideas that you would like to share about compelling new ways to visualize user experience opportunities?  Or maybe you have some thoughts on how “Working through Screens” ideas could be illustrated through example “snapshot” sketches?  Your input would be greatly appreciated! Please comment on this post, tweet @J_Burghardt or send an email to jburghardt@flashbulbinteraction.com