Mar 24About Strong WomenOn my first birthday without her, I feel compelled to honor my mom I know women who carry their households. I know women who raise children alone. I know women who adopt children alone, and raise them alone. I know women who did not have children and wish they did, or are glad they didn’t. I know women who grocery shop and pay…Women4 min readWomen4 min read
Mar 31, 2017The benefits of working like an amateurI recently heard an interview with Jim Jarmusch in which he talked about how he considers himself an amateur filmmaker, even though he’s been making movies since the early 1980s. He explained that he looks back to the original Latin meaning of the word amateur, which is amare, or “to…Entrepreneurship3 min readEntrepreneurship3 min read
Jan 22, 2017Today, women rose upThe march seen around the world Yesterday, an undeserving man was sworn into the most respected and most powerful office in the world. That’s why today was the first day of a resistance. It makes sense that the resistance rose up from women.Feminism3 min readFeminism3 min read
Jan 8, 2017Dear Jonathan RichmanA love letter — Hello Jonathan, This morning, I watched a YouTube video of your performance of “Everyday Clothes” on Conan from the early nineties. Some of the comments on the video were as follows… THANK YOU JONATHAN for 25 years of true passion for life, your music is one of the best…Music5 min readMusic5 min read
Jun 14, 2016Why (and How) I Used Slack as a Feedback Channel for User Experience ResearchI love NPR. On Morning Edition, every Friday, they air StoryCorps which are person-to-person interviews designed to make your heart fall out on the floor and openly sob. The StoryCorps idea is so simple yet so powerful. Instead of having a show host ask prepared questions with perfect enunciation, you…UX6 min readUX6 min read
Published inAWeber Email Marketing·May 17, 2016Website Metadata Explained for Marketers: How to Make Your Content ShareableAWeber just launched our new mobile app, Curate. Why do I mention this in an article about metadata? Because Curate relies entirely on metadata to create beautiful, readable newsletters for our customers. Metadata is the life force behind Curate.SEO6 min readSEO6 min read
Published inAWeber Email Marketing·May 5, 2016The user research behind AWeber’s new mobile app: How we all became product ownersIn the fall of 2015, AWeber’s mobile team faced a huge challenge: building an entirely new app from the ground up that our 100,000+ customers would want to use. Though we had a path we wanted to go down, we didn’t have a clear idea of what the app should…UX6 min readUX6 min read
Published inAWeber Email Marketing·Apr 26, 2016How our customers inspired and shaped AWeber’s new mobile appAs of last fall, AWeber had two mobile apps: Atom and Stats. We knew we wanted to go into 2016 working to deliver a new mobile app to our customers. …UX Design3 min readUX Design3 min read
