Performance Acceleration™ Blog

Responsive web design, (RWD), is an important evolution in an increasingly on-demand world. RWD is a design approach that lets you view content in a way that is optimized for the screen size that you are viewing it on. For example, if I access a RWD website on my laptop, ...

There is a hypothesis called “Punctuated Equilibrium” which posits that most of a species existence is static from an evolutionary perspective, and only on rare occasion is this stasis interrupted by an unforeseen event resulting in a disruptive change in the species evolution. While this idea has come under criticism, ...

This Saturday at TC Williams High School in Alexandria VA, 55 students will gather for a day of technology and learning in art and science of digital game design.  The event is broken into a half day of learning and a half day of creating – all with the help ...

Almost all of us use social media. In the past decade personal use of social technologies has exploded.  But, what does it mean to use these social technologies to get work done?  Do the same tools translate to the workplace? And what are the implications of social government- connecting government ...

Currently the instructor led classroom is a dominant way that training gets done in the federal government. Increasingly this is getting offset by eLearning, where the lower level, knowledge-based content, gets pulled from the classroom and packaged as “read-ahead” material. The term “read-ahead” is particularly apt in this case, because ...

One of the biggest hurdles to realizing enterprise mobile within the Federal Government is security. DISA has recently certified an Android-based mobile system for DoD, (Here is the GCN article).Civilian agencies have been looking to DoD to pave the way for security, so this is potentially a big milestone. There are rumors ...

Serious Games are here. This time last year, the term “serious game” was not widely accepted as appropriate within many federal agencies. “The Federal Government doesn’t play games”, was an oft heard refrain. Serious games have been around for a long time, and there have been important initiatives within the ...

I will be presenting at the upcoming mLearning DevCon conference on October 5^th in the New York Metro area, on the topic of Design Fundamentals for Natural User Interfaces.

As a sneak peak, I wanted to touch on the topic of touch vs. natural user interface, (NUI), often times ...

Junaio is one of the leading augmented reality, (AR), browsers currently available. AR browsers use the camera on your mobile device to recognize locations, images and natural features and overlay additional contextual information onto the live feed from your camera. A few days ago, Junaio, released a feature called SCAN. ...

Tim Ferriss wrote two influential books called The 4-Hour Work Week and The 4-Hour Body. In both books Tim explores ways to get maximum effect from minimum input, both in terms of life-style design and fitness.

Tim references a study about abdominal exercises and their relative impact on muscle development. ...