{"id":57,"date":"2008-02-11T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-06-27T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T10:56:38","slug":"a-day-out-of-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/a-day-out-of-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A day out of the office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was part of an &#8216;expert panel&#8217; arranged by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pureusability.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pure Usability<\/a> as part of a web site redesign process. I wasn&#8217;t particularly looking forward to the day (being full of cold and more than usually grumpy) but was pleasantly surprised at how it managed to be interactive and engaging throughout.<\/p>\n<p>We took part in a range of activities including critiquing the existing site, discussing our patterns of use, designing our &#8216;ideal&#8217; web sites, examining and prioritising our organisational affiliations, and a categorisation exercise. We were even allowed to use coloured pens and drawing paper. All good.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest to me, however, was the model of motivation we were introduced to, which I had not come across before, and used six factors of motivation visualised as a spider diagram. These factors were: achievement, power, respect, novelty, beauty and meaning. I&#8217;ve not been able to find out where this model comes from, although there are clearly similarities with the esteem and self-actualisation components of <a href=\"http:\/\/psychclassics.yorku.ca\/Maslow\/motivation.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Maslow&#8217;s Theory of Human Motivation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was part of an &#8216;expert panel&#8217; arranged by Pure Usability as part of a web site redesign process. I wasn&#8217;t particularly looking forward to the day (being full of cold and more than usually grumpy) but was&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/a-day-out-of-the-office\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,14],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-motivation","tag-usability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}