For the Remixing Reality class I’m taking this semester, I am maintaining a wunderkammer - a cabinet of curiosities. People used to collect things they found fascinating or inspiring on shelves or boxes. These days Instagram has become a kind of virtual wunderkammer. I soon realized that the Project Neuron…

One semester down. Quite a few more to go. I was definitely pushed to my limits last semester. All three classes I took had heavy workloads. I applied for a fellowship. Lots of lessons learned. Two of my classes ended up having related final projects: Robot Perception focused more on…

First week of school done. A couple days before classes started, I figured I’d review some statistics. Started reading about significance levels. Started freaking out. In the first class I take, a professor puts a problem on the board. I have to solve an inequality equation. …

I can breathe a sigh of relief. For now. I’m going to be starting a PhD in civil engineering at New York University in the fall. The exact topic is still up in the air but it’ll focus generally on how architecture can be designed according to people’s experiences walking…

I’m a huge fan of Alec Baldwin’s podcast, Here’s the Thing. With the Miles Davis intro song, “Blue in Green,” and his voice and his own interjections and stories and the reaction from the interviewees, he’s able to set this wonderful night time fireside chat kind of a mood. So…

A friend showed me this great “online book” that re-teaches graphic design using code, Programming Design Systems. The general premise of the book is that it’s worth focusing on the constraints that give shape to a family of designs, whether it’s posters, beer bottle labels, icons, etc. Computer programming gives…

As I was putting together a portfolio for architecture and design schools, it dawned on me that there may be a way to learn graphic design by “reverse engineering” magazine layouts. …

I recently read Picture This by Molly Bang. It was recommended on Quora for those interested in learning design on their own. I instantly liked Bang’s approach of using abstract shapes to re-tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood. …

So my friend and I just wrapped up our book recommendation chatbot project. We called it Project Omnibus. We had some of our friends try out the website while sharing their screens and thinking out loud. While the tests resembled usability testing described in Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think…