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Blast from the past: SAFE methodology

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I was digging through some reeeeeally old files this morning, and happened upon something I wrote in an agency proposal back in 2000. Of course, that was before we had widespread adoption of the term 'UX', and instead talked about 'usability' (which doesn't seem to get...

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Truth and Dare: My response to Jason Mesut's EuroIA 2011 talk

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If you haven't seen the slides for Jason Mesut's EuroIA talk, Truth And Dare, stop reading and chow down immediately. With his trademark flouncy manner and withering snark, the lovely Jason has taken a pin to the UX bubble and exploded the bullshit within. Nice. Truth...

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5 Lessons from Beyond the Polar Bear

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Recently I gave a talk at the 2011 IA Summit in Denver. It was prepared by me and Michael Smethurst, and covered the great work that has led to some of the BBC's most respected online projects over the past few years; notably Programmes, Food and the ever-shiny Wildlife...

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Models of interactive storytelling

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In this post I want to look at the various models of interactive storytelling. This isn't necessarily an exhaustive list, and indeed many examples blend multiple models in order to tell their story. Without further ado: Non-linear progression Here the overall story...

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Slouching toward interactive narrative

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My work has taken an unexpected turn into the world of transmedia storytelling and interactive digital narrative, in an attempt to create a model for telling stories online, and more specifically figuring out how best to use the native interactivity of the web as a storytelling...

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Please don't mind the mess. It's not normally like this.

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Honestly. It's just that I haven't long moved in, and good cleaners are so hard to find these days. So y'know, make yourself at home. I think the tea bags are in one of these boxes somewhere. Oh no - don't mind that, you know how dogs get stressed in a new home. Hang...

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Mike Atherton

Mike Atherton

Thoughts that aren't big and aren't clever, but are on the topic of user experience, digital storytelling, presentation design, and general snarkiness.

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