The Mad Lab
Week XII Lab: Count One Slip, Test One Fix
This beginner lab asks you to count one everyday slip, add one homemade blocker or reminder you can undo, then count again to see whether the error fell, moved, or...
Week XII Lab: Count One Slip, Test One Fix
This beginner lab asks you to count one everyday slip, add one homemade blocker or reminder you can undo, then count again to see whether the error fell, moved, or...
Week XI Lab: First-Use Constraint Audit
Workshop 11 already moved everyday objects into abstract form. The lab should do the opposite: keep the objects ordinary and measure how well their knowledge-in-the-world actually works. Question. How much...
Week XI Lab: First-Use Constraint Audit
Workshop 11 already moved everyday objects into abstract form. The lab should do the opposite: keep the objects ordinary and measure how well their knowledge-in-the-world actually works. Question. How much...
Week X in the Lab: Design Critique + Mini Usabi...
Apply Norman’s key concepts to an ordinary object or small design you create, then test it with real people to measure whether the redesign actually works.
Week X in the Lab: Design Critique + Mini Usabi...
Apply Norman’s key concepts to an ordinary object or small design you create, then test it with real people to measure whether the redesign actually works.
Week IX Lab: Scientific Method Audit of a Perso...
This laboratory applies the scientific method to one ordinary daily habit of physicalist magick in order to produce measurable improvement in consistency or insight through observable processes alone.
Week IX Lab: Scientific Method Audit of a Perso...
This laboratory applies the scientific method to one ordinary daily habit of physicalist magick in order to produce measurable improvement in consistency or insight through observable processes alone.
Week VIII Lab: Finding Scientific Articles on E...
You're challenged to locate one peer-reviewed scientific article each on non-mystic enchantment, the design of illusions, and curiosity as method, extract their core measurements and findings, then design a minimal...
Week VIII Lab: Finding Scientific Articles on E...
You're challenged to locate one peer-reviewed scientific article each on non-mystic enchantment, the design of illusions, and curiosity as method, extract their core measurements and findings, then design a minimal...
Week VII Lab: Map the Magick — Everything is Ph...
This week’s lab invites you to take one ordinary “magickal” summer experience, map it completely onto physical processes, run a tiny test that reveals the mechanics underneath, and open-source the...
Week VII Lab: Map the Magick — Everything is Ph...
This week’s lab invites you to take one ordinary “magickal” summer experience, map it completely onto physical processes, run a tiny test that reveals the mechanics underneath, and open-source the...
