Building community and brainstorming concrete ways to support D&I in software — Last Thursday, a tweet floated across my timeline with an invitation: “On Monday, August 17th, we’re having a virtual workshop on Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion Research. Join us, won’t you?” Following the accompanying link, I found out about the second annual Workshop on Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion (SDDI…

Teaching software interface design is hard, but it doesn’t have to be — Right now, we’re training vast numbers of students in higher education computing programs to build software. These students go on to become software engineers and developers, creating software that’s used by a wide range of diverse people. …

Design has been on my brain lately. What is design? Where does it happen? How does it happen best? How can we teach others to design well? These are the questions I’ve been considering as I wrap up my first year of graduate school at the UW Information School. In…

418 graduate women in computing learning the skills to change the world #GradCohort2019 This week, I attended the Computing Research Association’s (@CRAWomen) Grad Cohort for Women in Chicago, IL, USA. …

This week, Seattle welcomes the IxDA’s Interaction Week 2019, bringing together interaction design practitioners, researchers, and fangirls to explore the state of the discipline. In collaboration with the University of Washington DUB group, the conference began with the seventh annual Interaction Design Education Summit. My current research projects explore the…

Last week marked the end of my first quarter at the University of Washington’s Information School. After ten weeks, I can confidently say that I have this research thing down. I can quote seminal works at the drop of a hat. Every sentence that falls from my keyboard is publishable…