This talk of neurodiversity, tutorials, and shareable open source components brings up a thought I've had in the past but haven't written much about yet, which is the idea of developing a "developer learning experience (DLX) design system" (or maybe, "developer experience design
Oh God. Every developer just felt a chill go down their spine. 🥶 You see, effortful learning isn't always fun. It's hard! And we as humans generally don't like hard things, we prefer things to be easy. "Please don't pick on me.
What's the best learning experience you've ever had? Could be a university course, could be something your parents taught you, or could be a lesson learned from a failed startup, think about it. How did it change your life? How were you better off after experiencing
If you think of a learning experience like user experience, there are performance metrics. I might call them Developer Learning Vitals. I see Time to Mind Blown as one of these vitals. Let's say you're doing a workshop on your product and the room is full
If you want to create an experience then by definition it must be memorable. "Good" isn't good enough. Think about your last "experience." The greater the peak moments we felt during that experience, the more parts of it you probably remember. You likely bring
A Learning Experience Platform (LXP) is a new generation of learning software that replaces the more traditional Learning Management System (LMS). LMSs are used a lot in corporate environments to host all the boring training 😉 In fact, that right there is the differentiating factor. An LXP is focused on providing
