Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Bloom's Taxonomy: An understanding framework

Bloom's taxonomy is a set of three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. The three lists cover the learning objectives in cognitive, affective and sensory domains. The cognitive domain list has been the primary focus of most traditional education and is frequently used to structure curriculum learning objectives, assessments, and activities.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Apple Watch Unlocking Mac

This is a collection of messages displayed on the MacBook Pro lock screen related to Apple Watch. 



(More to come)

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Powerpoint: New features: Sketch


Jira: Useful tips as Placeholder text

When creating a new ticket in Jira the placeholder body text is a useful tip instead of additional instructions for the field. 




Thursday, September 5, 2019

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Google Docs Grammarly extension pop-over

When I opened a Google Doc this Grammarly pop-over appeared automatically. There was a microanimation.

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Pinterest Tool tip: Hide pins you don't like

I followed an image link from a google search result and it led me to Pinterest. 
The tooltip was automatically displayed.


After I clicked "Got it!" the tooltip went away. Then when I clicked the 3 dots, then this tooltip was displayed. 

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Twitter: New Features and UI Themes

I visited Twitter and was met with this modal automatically displayed. They announced many new features and that I can customize my look. 

Result of clicking "Get started"

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Microsoft New Features Pop-up

When Outlook launched a pop-up appeared to explain that their privacy options have changed.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Spotify: When your music ends...

I was listening to music that I had saved to my queue. 
When the last song was finished I started hearing music I wasn't familiar with, yet it was a style I enjoyed. When I switched back to Spotify a notification banner informed me 
"When your music ends, we continue playing similar songs for you. You can turn this off in Settings."
This is a fantastic message for 2 reasons. It explained behavior from the system that I didn't request, and it explained how I might modify the system if I did not want it. 

Spotify

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Google Docs UI Tour

Google Docs has been around for a while. Recently the started allowing Office-formatted files.





Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Permission Priming: BlueJeans.com

When I visited BlueJeans.com for a video conference Chrome prompted me for microphone and camera permissions. 



The page itself had a Permission Priming message.

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Password Changed, not yet

After changing my password, this message was displayed.



It is great the system confirmed the password was changed. 
Since the expiration time (in the system bar above) has not updated it would be a confusing mismatch so it is really great that the message included this mismatch.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

YouTube: 500 Internal Server Error

Visited YouTube and this happened.

Sorry, something went wrong. 
A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. 
If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Email Updates on StrengthsFinder

Email 


The first checkbox after the form was this:
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Auto Save Button

The save function is evolving. 
The icon itself is nearly irrelevant. Most children have never seen a 3.5" floppy disk. If you ask a child what the Save icon is they might guess, "A file cabinet?"

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Excel: New Features... T-Rex

This pop up appeared when I opened Excel after a recent update. 
This particular update was funny. 




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Watch Your Worksheet Come Alive
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