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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Badass: Making Users Awesome
What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
99
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
You can’t have expertise without expert skills
Can’t do
(but need to)
A
Can do
with effort
B
Mastered
(reliable/automatic)
C
Imagine you put three posters on the wall, one for each of
three skill categories: Can’t do, Can do With Effort, and
Mastered. Now imagine you make a sticky note for each skill
you need to master for that domain.
One of our key roles is helping users move each skill from
Can’t do” to Can do.” But “Can do” comes in two avors: with
conscious effort (not reliable) and mastered (reliable/automatic).
Take photos using
Shutter priority
Skill: DSLR Photography Exposure
Week 1
Take photos using
Aperture priority
Week 2
A B C
A B C
Shutter
Priority
A B C
Shutter
Priority
Histogram
Shutter
Priority
Aperture
Priority
Aperture
Priority
Use histogram to check
and compensate for
exposure
Week 3
100
The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills
Is this the best progression for expertise?
Moving from beginner to badass, does this sequence make
sense for developing expert skills?
START
Everything is on
the can’t do
board
With learning and
practice, skills
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