Dec 17, 2021Designing Remote Play for Kids on ArduinoAs the global pandemic evolves, virtually every aspect of everyday life has too: work, school, gathering, and socializing. For young children, the pandemic has prevented them from going to school and interacting with kids their age. …Kids6 min readKids6 min read
Dec 15, 2021the meta-meta versecritiquing the virtual world by creating one With Facebook’s recent conversion to Meta, we debated and discussed the consequences of integrating increasingly more technology into our personal lives. …Virtual Reality6 min readVirtual Reality6 min read
Nov 8, 2021Taking Down Statues, Erasing Memories: Participatory Design in the Statue DebateIntroduction Statues and monuments have been a contentious area of public debate recently. In the past few years, statues of controversial figures have been protested, spray-painted, defaced, torn down, and even thrown into rivers. …Statue8 min readStatue8 min read
Sep 19, 2019Ethical Analysis into Pintrest’s AI/ML generated resultsIn any graphic design task I’ve had, I’ve always begun on Pintrest. It’s a great way of getting your mood board or color palette sorted, helping to create a vision of what you might want to design. Based on Microsoft’s Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction, I will be evaluating my Pintrest…UX4 min readUX4 min read
Sep 18, 2019Everyday UI Critique: Amtrak WebsiteThe best user interfaces go unnoticed. It feels natural; intuitive. There’s a seamlessness to the workflow that just feels obvious. Where bad design sticks out like a sore thumb, good design is invisible. …UX4 min readUX4 min read
Sep 12, 2019Everyday UI: the Table Lampcritiquing for desirability, feasibility, and viability The table lamp is a perennially simple but complex object. …Design4 min readDesign4 min read
Sep 2, 2019dealing with climate anxietyturning 19 in 2019, design in the circular economy, and hope — I haven’t sat down and written in a while, hoping that the urge to write will subside when I click on the many distractions constantly available to me. But lately, I’ve realized that thinking “I simply haven’t the time” or “What could I possibly add that would be remotely useful?”…Design6 min readDesign6 min read