Emily PakinThe StartupDeconstructing the Icons on an Austrian TrainAs I was seated on a train from Budapest to Vienna last week, midway through a holiday in Central Europe, I heard passengers from all over…Sep 25, 2019Sep 25, 2019
Emily PakinPrototyprDesign Patterns & Flows: Amazon Lists and Why They’re FunLists are great — they help us organize our lives, tame our scattered thoughts, and combat our pesky working memory that forgets things…Sep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
Emily PakinUX CollectiveDuolingo’s usability analyzedI wish I had the ability to download language files into my brain and become fluent immediately (I’ll take advanced Spanish and basic…Sep 9, 20191Sep 9, 20191
Emily PakinQuick DesignThe Assumptions That Led to the Failure of Google+One of the most disastrous failures in the tech world in the past decade was that of Google+. Launched in 2011 during the height of…Aug 27, 2019Aug 27, 2019
Emily PakinThe StartupSaving the Twitter Feed and Your SanityI have heard countless friends over the past couple of years say that they need to “quit Twitter” because it’s “bad for me”, “makes me…Aug 21, 2019Aug 21, 2019