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Celebration: Maker Showcase
My friend Sara Wingfield and I co-planned a Maker Showcase at work back in April. Argodesign is filled with brilliant designers, many of whom spend their spare time making art, furniture, and jewelry. We wanted to provide a venue for our coworkers to share what they make and their hidden talents/super powers. We celebrated a…
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Work/Life Balance
I am so sick of reading blog posts on work/life balance that takes an extreme definition of the phrase, then attempts to disprove it as a concept. Every person works differently. Each person will have a different “balance” or lack there of. It’s a personal journey that one must take in order to figure out…
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SXSW Workshop
I presented an hour and a half long workshop at SXSW Interactive 2019! This opportunity was a big f-ing deal to me. I’ve proposed talks and workshops for south by before and it’s so hard to get in. The workshop was Prototyping for IoT with Arduino, and it introduces participants to breaking down ideas they…
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SXSW 2019 Day Two
The second day of SXSW started with my workshop! I presented an hour and a half long workshop introducing designers to Arduino and how to prototype with it. It was well attended, almost 30 participants, who were really engaged, asking great questions, and all of them got their circuits working! It’s so rewarding to see…
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SXSW 2019 Day One
Friday was my first day with a Platinum badge at this enormous conference full of talks, learning, celebrities, films, and music. I’m anti-FOMO at the most FOMO-inducing event in the interaction design conference circuit. I decided to do quite a bit of planning ahead of time in order to have a low-anxiety experience. I leveraged…
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Book
To celebrate finally getting the physical copy of my book, I brought a bunch of doughnuts to work today! #celebrate
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Designing Your Ideal Life
How to create and accomplish goals by setting yourself up for success I’m a user experience designer by trade, but my greatest design project is my life. I actively create and guide it through setting goals and continually learning. Each year I plan out my annual goals, and I accomplish them through hard work, perseverance, and…
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Why we need to pay attention to our distraction addiction.
In my graduate thesis, I researched distraction and attention, and then designed technology that decreased the former and increased the latter. Although this process culminated in a suite of design offerings, at the end of the project I failed to create a single fully-successful solution. That research and work showed me that distraction and attention are…
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Learning How to Write
During the first semester of my MFA thesis, I was asked to write every day, working towards the final thesis book. I didn’t set up an accountability buddy, so I wrote every once in a while. At the end of the semester, it took me two full weeks of writing and editing to put my…
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2013 Year in Review
This year had been full of learning, making, culture, and work. It’s flown by, and I wanted to share a few of the accomplishments that I’m proud of from this crazy year in New York. I started the second semester of grad school in January after a whirlwind first semester. I developed a better school-life…