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Published in The UX Book Club

·May 19, 2022

Contextualizing Why Women in Typography and Letter Design were Forgotten

A Review of Baseline Shift, Edited by Briar Levit — I took my kids to Disney world for the first time in February. I don’t like amusement parks in general. I’m a tea-and-used-bookstore kind of woman; rollercoasters are loud and lack the smell of binding glue. How did we get to Disney if I dislike amusement parks so much? Well…

UX

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Contextualizing Why Women in Typography and Letter Design were Forgotten
Contextualizing Why Women in Typography and Letter Design were Forgotten
UX

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Published in The UX Book Club

·Jan 29, 2020

Structuring and Coordinating Your Digital Presence

A Review of Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design, by Lisa Welchman — I think that most UX people have been in that meeting. You know the one I’m talking about. The one where you’re left scrambling and not really sure how or why other people outside of UX are making decisions about what goes into the User Interface. I also mean the…

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Structuring and Coordinating Your Digital Presence
Structuring and Coordinating Your Digital Presence
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Published in The UX Book Club

·Dec 9, 2019

Design 101

A Review of 100 Ideas that Changed Design by Charlotte & Peter Fiell — There are two things that are important to know before I start this review. The first is that I broke my hand about 3 months ago. I’ll spare you the gory details, but I’ll tell you that I snapped two fingers in half and for about 2 hours my hand…

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Design 101
Design 101
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Published in The UX Book Club

·Jun 10, 2019

Contextualizing User Action

A Review of Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication — Every year or so I get asked to give a talk about User Experience to Computer Scientists. At the beginning of the talk I don’t start by defining UX. Rather, I start by explaining how UX grew out of AI; how the whole field started as a reaction. I begin…

Machine Learning

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Contextualizing User Action
Contextualizing User Action
Machine Learning

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Published in The UX Book Club

·May 24, 2019

UX Management & Program Management: A review of the PMBOK & User Experience Management

I’ve been in the UX game for a number of years now. I mean when I walk into a new project I know what to expect, every time. I’m not even…

UX

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UX Management & Program Management: A review of the PMBOK & User Experience Management
UX Management & Program Management: A review of the PMBOK & User Experience Management
UX

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Published in The UX Book Club

·Apr 28, 2019

Data Visualization, Old School:

A Review of W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits —

Data Visualization

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Data Visualization, Old School:
Data Visualization, Old School:
Data Visualization

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Published in Women in Computing Newsletter

·May 22, 2018

Drawing with Code — By Laura Braun

Laura was so excited to participate in her first Women in Computing Day. She created a whole session that focused on how to draw using code. This is a concept that seems so strange at first. To young people, they think there is magic that goes on to make images…

Girls Who Code

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Drawing with Code — By Laura Braun
Drawing with Code — By Laura Braun
Girls Who Code

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Published in Women in Computing Newsletter

·May 15, 2018

Robots to the Rescue — By Jill Crisman

Jill is a Chief Scientist at Next Century, which basically means that she is in charge of ensuring that Next Century does cutting edge software development and research. Jill is passionate about ensuring that we take out brightest people and think critically about how software could solve some of the…

Robotics

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Robots to the Rescue — By Jill Crisman
Robots to the Rescue — By Jill Crisman
Robotics

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Published in Women in Computing Newsletter

·May 8, 2018

Design Thinking: 5 Chairs — By Sophie Kim

Sophie has been an amazing addition to Next Century taking on leadership on one of our research projects AND doing brilliant User Experience Work. As a Principle User Experience Engineer she led a session at our recent Women in Computing Day that was focused on Design Thinking. It wasn’t a…

Design Thinking

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Design Thinking: 5 Chairs — By Sophie Kim
Design Thinking: 5 Chairs — By Sophie Kim
Design Thinking

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Published in Next Century User Experience

·May 4, 2018

Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 2

Back in September 2016, I presented and published at the Society for Technical Communication. This is an amazing professional group of technical communicators and user-focused individuals who gather annually. Since I live only a few miles away from their 2016 summit location in Washington, D.C., …

UX

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Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 2
Designing for Novices & Experts, Part 2
UX

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