Making Dinosaurs Dance (American Alliance of Museums)

Review\nA wonderful guide to the kind of agile, experimental, responsive operational strategies needed in the museum of the future. -- Elizabeth Merritt, founding director, Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums\nPersonal and engaging, this book reveals the opportunities and surprises of working directly with museum visitors in designing new digital experiences. Refreshingly honest and practical it offers even the smallest museum insights into how to design things that visitors - even teenagers - will enjoy. -- Seb Chan, Director & CEO, ACMI\nMaking Dinosaurs Dance is a delight. Joseph provides readers with a clearly articulated and robust framework then bases each chapter around specific digital projects that demonstrate what those tools look like in practice. It has something for emerging professionals looking to equip themselves with digital design tools while offering those already-emerged a great example of the benefits of reflecting on their practice.
-- Ed Rodley, co-founder and principal, The Experience Alchemists\nMaking Dinosaurs Dance gives readers an incredible behind-the-scenes view into the pathways and processes that have driven many innovative, digital projects in museums. Each case study - showing what the Six Tools for Digital Design look like in action - provides readers with relatable scenarios and a more realistic view of what it means to effectively use these tools to advance your own digital design projects."\n-- Madlyn Larson, associate director of education initiatives, Natural History Museum of Utah\nThis book is relatable and accessible, offering an honest look at working in a museum. Based on real genuine experience, reading it was like having a charming conversation with the author. And this isn’t just me being a nice Canadian!
-- France Therrien, Learning Specialist, Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum\nBarry has created an accessible and deeply practical guide to designing digital experiences in Museums. Drawing on detailed case studies from his work at American Museum of Natural History with warmth and candor, Barry illustrates a core framework for implementing a broad range of technologies in a variety of Museum contexts. This book is part how-to guide, part seminar workshop, and part magical mystery tour of Barry's time at the Museum--an essential introduction to how digital technologies can (and can't!) transform the visitor experience.\n-- Bella Desai, director of strategic initiatives, Creatives Rebuild New York; former director of public programs and exhibition education, American Museum of Natural History\nThis book feels like a baton that is being passed, a baton that will open up possibility spaces for the next round of innovation.
-- Hannah Jaris, Program Manager of Adult Education, New York Botanical Garden\nAn impassioned look into the many ways Joseph has used digital design to transform museums and visitor experiences. Joseph describes his pioneering work through vivid case studies and insightful interviews, offering a framework and tools for utilizing his uniquely qualified approach.
-- Margaret Wallace, CEO and Co-Founder, Playmatics\nBarry Joseph is one of the foremost experts on digital design, youth learning, and innovation. If you're interested in these spaces there is no better place to look.
-- Jeremy Kenisky, CTO @ XALTER\nBarry Joseph is a force of nature. Few can match the impact that he has had in pulling digital museum education into the 21st century.
-- Grace Collins, CEO, Snowbright Studio\nThe publication is an important record for digital design at an important moment in museology.
-- Neal Stimler, President of Stimler Advantage\nMaking Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums takes the reader behind the scenes to learn how the American Museum of Natural History innovates visitor digital engagement, highlighting design techniques used both there and at museums around the world. Based on th