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Becoming Your Best Advocate
Your work speaks for itself. People advocate for you because they understand your value and will refer you when you’re looking for new opportunities. Unfortunately, you don’t always have someone to vouch for you and that puts it on you to sell yourself.
Continue Reading →Reading Between the Lines: Common Questions I Ask Before User Research
Research requests often come in the form of “we need user testing on this product and we need it by this time”. Product teams are looking to understand their product and get that info fast. Yet, many times a clear vision about why they need research doesn’t exist. Sometimes the person who requests the research isn’t who needs or wants the research.
Continue Reading →Embodying the Interface
User interfaces have been changing overtime. As the field of user experience grows, so do the possible interfaces that people interact with. While there is are no set standards for the future, it seems that the technological world wants to move towards body-based interactions. We already have examples of technology that are body-based, for example Microsoft’s Kinect and Leap Motion.
Continue Reading →Big Ideas Are Not Always Better
Everyone is looking for “The BIG Idea”, an idea so innovative that a business practically runs itself, or an idea that will solve all problems for a broad audience. By no means should people stop thinking “big”, but people should also start thinking “small”.
Continue Reading →Getting Past First World Problems
Continue Reading →“I don’t understand why poor kids, ghetto kids, don’t do startups to get out of poverty”