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Caryn Vainio

Caryn Vainio

The Overwatch Player Types That Vex Me

I love Overwatch. I mean, I really love Overwatch. I’ve been a gamer for nearly thirty years now and a shooter player since the Quake days…

Sep 17, 2016

The Overwatch Player Types That Vex Me

Sep 17, 2016

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On Spinning and Knitting

The Importance of Keeping Records

Raise your hand if you’ve done this: you wing a recipe, it turns out great, but you forgot to write down what you did, so now you have no…

Dec 28, 2015

The Importance of Keeping Records

Dec 28, 2015

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On Spinning and Knitting

Spinning for Socks

Whenever I’ve spoken to anyone in the military, they all seem to agree on one thing: never underestimate the importance of a pair of clean…

Dec 24, 2015

Spinning for Socks

Dec 24, 2015

Caryn Vainio
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Design Bits

Make Decisions.

Design is not the act of putting pixels into a pretty arrangement on the screen; design is a process of decision making.

Dec 17, 2015

Make Decisions.

Dec 17, 2015

Caryn Vainio

Why Your UX Designer Is (Probably) Unhappy

Dec 4, 2015

Why Your UX Designer Is (Probably) Unhappy

Dec 4, 2015

Caryn Vainio

Getting Free From Clothing Anxiety: The Capsule Wardrobe Experiment

I have always loved clothes. For most of my life, however, they haven’t exactly loved me back.

Oct 28, 2015

Getting Free From Clothing Anxiety: The Capsule Wardrobe Experiment

Oct 28, 2015

Caryn Vainio

A Story Not About Jeans

Imagine you’re a mostly average guy who needs to buy some jeans. So you go into the store of a company that’s known to make high-quality…

Aug 6, 2014

Aug 6, 2014

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Raising a Human

Life As a Game Dev Mom

The difficulties of parenting in an industry with a history of poor work-life balance

Apr 22, 2014

Life As a Game Dev Mom

Apr 22, 2014

Caryn Vainio

The GOP’s Problem with Women as Humans

Feb 25, 2014

The GOP’s Problem with Women as Humans

Feb 25, 2014

Caryn Vainio

A bellydancer, a game developer, and Quiet walk into a bar

Or, how being a woman with an empowering hobby does not invalidate her opinion on sexism in games.

Sep 8, 2013

Sep 8, 2013

Caryn Vainio

Caryn Vainio

Was in astrophysics, now a UX designer. Also a belly dancer, alpaca farmer, yarn spinner. See my work at http://www.carynvainio.com.

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