While using Team Warren’s Medicare For All Calculator I was surprised and delighted by the ability to populate this prompt with a pre-calculated value: Clicking a link lets you use the average cost for a family of four or for a single adult— and of course, she cites her sources for these figures. This is a welcome improvement over the student loan debt forgiveness calculator she provided a few months back:

A while back, I wrote about what it means to incorporate UX principles into instructional design. I mentioned that the faculty perspective is often absent from these conversations, meaning that the UX of creating a good UX for students… is bad for instructors. …

I’m an entirely self-taught coder. Like many women who came of age in the 00s, I learned HTML and CSS in order to spruce up my profile pages for MySpace and LiveJournal. I didn’t realize how valuable those skills could be until I started creating and editing websites as an…

***Note: the images embedded in this article are images of presentation slides, the content of which is discussed in the text of the article. I work as an instructional technologist in the New York University Faculty of Arts & Science Office of Educational Technology. In effort to keep in line…

After uploading my resume, I stared at this screen for almost a full minute, trying to figure out how to proceed with this job application. I was doubly frustrated, because many companies use this system for job applications, and I run into this issue every. single. time. …

As part of my freeCodeCamp Front End Development certificate, I was asked to build a random quote generator which met the following requirements: User can click a button to see a new quote User can click a button to tweet out a quote Since I want to add this project…

I just finished up a one-week workshop on Learner Experience Design, taught by Jessica Knott from Michigan State University. As an instructional designer, I have been looking for ways to bring UX principles into my work, and Knott’s workshop certainly provided some inspiration. …

I first joined Twitter in 2008, and found it so boring that I doubted it would ever catch on. I suppose we can call that my Prince moment. Anyway, I joined before it was easy to share images, and now almost half of all tweets contain images. Lately I’ve been…