Preston McCauley

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With over 25 years of experience in technology and design, I have consistently been at…

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Publications

  • UIDESIGNGUIDE

    Online UX Magazine / Blog

    This is my contribution to the UX community at large. I discuss all aspects of product development, strategy, user experience, mobile development, design thinking. The online venue is aimed at UX designers of all experience levels.

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  • UX Modes

    Online Future UX Mediums & Design

    This is my secondary contribution to the future of design evolution. Inside I talk about ways UX has moved beyond the screen and into the world around us. This includes Mixed Reality, holograms, Virtual reality, and more. I share hands on experiences and musings about how this technology might be leveraged in the future.

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Projects

  • UX Teacher

    Provide UX teaching and practice consulting as well as serving as current UX SMU Cape Teacher.

  • Project Storytime

    - Present

    Our fun characters will help your child learn and explore reading in a fun new way!

    Story creation through your child’s imagination has never been easier on the iPad. Our innovative Story Creator allows you and your child to build stories together. Your initial purchase gives you access to a dozen specially designed backgrounds, the project storytime characters, pets, and nearly 80 objects to create and craft your story.

    Supplement your library with additional books created by our…

    Our fun characters will help your child learn and explore reading in a fun new way!

    Story creation through your child’s imagination has never been easier on the iPad. Our innovative Story Creator allows you and your child to build stories together. Your initial purchase gives you access to a dozen specially designed backgrounds, the project storytime characters, pets, and nearly 80 objects to create and craft your story.

    Supplement your library with additional books created by our writers.

    Supplement your story creations with additional themes to make almost any story imaginable.


    The Story Creator
    We designed the creator from the ground-up focusing on letting a child's imagination run wild. We studied how children ages 3-8 interact with the iPad and put them to work as our Beta Testers. They loved using our simple and intuitive interface to create their own stories.

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Test Scores

  • Stackoverflow: Helping The Front-End Development Community

    Score: 675

    While not a test stackoverflow is the best example of helping, teaching and working with people daily in the dev community.

    http://stackoverflow.com/users/376825/imaginethepoet

Organizations

  • Co-Founder & Organizer Of Dallas Immersive Design & Development

    Co-Founder

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    We work to foster exciting and new bleeding edge technologies within the Dallas community. We focus on virtual reality, mixed reality, technology integration, ai, machine learning, and more.

  • DFW UPA / DFW UXPA

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  • Professional Speaking

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    UX Evaporation: How Touch and Gesture Impact Future Designs (Results Oriented Web - 2013) In this talk, we will take a look at touch, gesture technology, and the upcoming LEAP device. We will explore some design work that I have recently done while building an iPad app for children. We’ll look at how you have to design for digital natives and digital immigrants. What does this means for the future of web applications and beyond? Multi-Dimensional UX: Reality Is Your Canvas (Big D Dallas -…

    UX Evaporation: How Touch and Gesture Impact Future Designs (Results Oriented Web - 2013) In this talk, we will take a look at touch, gesture technology, and the upcoming LEAP device. We will explore some design work that I have recently done while building an iPad app for children. We’ll look at how you have to design for digital natives and digital immigrants. What does this means for the future of web applications and beyond? Multi-Dimensional UX: Reality Is Your Canvas (Big D Dallas - 2016) How do we begin to morph our skill sets as UX designers? Building Trust Relationship (Big D Dallas - 2016) How do we build trust with all members of product creation teams. This goes beyond UX Game Concept & Level Design Children's Workshop (Big D Dallas - 2016) How do you go about building out scenes, heroes, characters and more! Building an App For Children (Dallas UX Group - 2013) This was a indepth look into product creation from start to finish and the research required to produce a children's application along the way. Strategic Paths To Successfull Conversations (Big D Dallas - 2012) In this presentation we will be examining everyday conversations and discussings ways to identify critical vs non critcal communications. This partially interactive talk will help participants find ways to clear the air and get to the true goal of the conversation. Big Design Workshop: Practical UX (2011 - Dallas) In this interactive workshop I taught practical UX principals to help drive participants to creative wireframing, concepts and designs within a day. We looked at the harsh realties of real world requirements and how to help get more clarification around what the client wants to build.

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