I realized I wanted to publish this before Election Day and feelings feel hard. I don’t know how this week will go and just want to say that, even if you aren’t deeply involved, it doesn’t mean issues and feelings can’t be deeply felt. The Hidden Brain podcast often provides me helpful ways to think…
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Podcasts I listen to (or generally recommend)
My friend asked me for podcast recommendations and I sent over a whole Google doc of recommendations. I went through, updated it with some some harsh realities (do I really listen to this anymore?). I’ve organized them into 7 categories: Favorites, Stories, Psychology, News-ish, Fun facts, Series, and Comedy. I figure you might not like…
One gal’s accessibility round up
Accessibly when used in my work refers to making digital product equally available to everyone, regardless of disability. The usual story I tell about getting interested in accessibility was when I was assigned to make an app accessible during my internship. There was a short “how-to” presentation that mostly covered things like color contrast and…
My favorite books of last year
I don’t watch TV and only watch movies in airplanes and as a social activity. I’ve heard there are some really great TV series out, and enjoy the movies I do get to see, I just never seem to find the time. When I walk into the door of my apartment, the first thing I…
Take a look, it’s in a book
In the beautiful wisdom of of the Reading Rainbow theme song, I’d like to invite you all to take a look, because it’s in a book. A reading rainbow. Something magical happened that will change my life for the better ever after. I learned that I can borrow audiobooks from the San Francisco library from an…
5: books James Victore recommends
Pretty diverse set, no? I want to give couple of them try. But he’s right about me not wanting to read Ralph’s again. I really agree that it’s our immersion in the world that helps make us diverse and strong designers. James Victore, for those of you new to the scene, is a graphic designer…
What I know now // 022
Tourist vs local photographs (via Good) around the world. Well, I know a whole lot more since going to Interaction15 last week, but I’ll stick primarily to the articles I’ve read in the last month.
Movies over winter break
I’ve taken the liberty of re-entering society and learning about pop culture over winter break via film. Here are the movies that I’ve watched (and liked!) over winter break (so far): The Graduate I just saw it on Netflix and thought that I should finally watch this classic movie that I’ve heard so much about. …
What I know now // 018
A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia Short & sweet this month, as I was mostly working on school work. But you can see that I was still trolling on NPR articles.
PHAMETRICS // 27
School’s back. Full-swing. And it’s very swingy. Unstable, in fact. (Photo of a group outing of our design cohort)