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...
View ArticleGoals 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...
View ArticleJobs
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...
View ArticleThey’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...
View ArticleDear 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...
View ArticleOm 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...
View ArticleEast 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...
View ArticleTim 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSuccess 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleLife 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...
View ArticleThe 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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