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Essential Kitchen Hardware

This is now my third year living in an apartment on campus, and that means I’ve had a kitchen at my disposal for nearly three years. Over the past few weeks, though, I’ve been disappointed at my lack...

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Goals for 2012

I’ve decided that resolutions are stupid. It’s as if they’re meant to be broken. At least, that’s the stigma I perceive surrounding them. Rather than make resolutions, then, I have a couple goals in...

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Jobs

Just finished reading the Steve Jobs bio. I think this is my favorite quote: My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was...

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They’ve Arrived!

The other day I picked up a small package from the post office. Inside was a small box. Within the box were 100 crisp, newly printed personal business cards. For me! They came out amazing, too! I did...

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Dear Browsers: Please implement sharing.

One of growing trends I’m seeing on websites nowadays is the addition of sharing/liking/+1′ing/social-in-general buttons. This, in principle, is all fine and dandy. Social networking is the hot new...

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Om Nom Nom

My parents sent me these (along with a bag of Peanut M&M’s) for Valentine’s Day. I have infinite love for them right now. If you’ve never had an Aero Bar before… you really should try one. The mint...

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East Coast Goodness

One of the things I miss most about the East Coast… What’s Wawa, you ask? There’s not really a good way to describe it. It’s just awesome. But here’s an attempt, courtesy of a group on FB: If your...

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Tim Berners-Lee on the WWW

The World Wide Web (which is not the Internet, mind you), wasn’t really what we think of it today until around 1993, when the first GUI-based browser was released for it. Prior to that, though, the WWW...

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A Good UX Mantra

I’m reading a bit through a user interface design and evaluation text to get some tips on putting together a formal evaluation for QCN Live, and I came across this little nugget: Test early, test...

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Success by UX

A nice article that I came across awhile back and have meaning to post about for awhile. I’m obviously biased here, since I mean “nice” in terms of it’s nice that UX is my career path of choice. Is...

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This Week Was Fantastic

Sooooo many great things have happened this week. I got an internship! I’ll be working on user experience design at Efficiency 2.0 in New York City this summer. I’m really excited to get started...

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Life After College

Over the past couple of months, for some odd reason, I’ve been asked one question over and over and over: “Where are you going to live after college?” Each time I’m asked that question, I pause, not...

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The Bad Designer vs. Good Designer

When a user notifies a designer about a “bug” in the system that is not truly a bug, but rather an error made by the user… A bad designer: will blame the user and say it was their fault for messing up....

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