Confession: I’ve probably spent more time thinking about stages of UX maturity in my career than any other concept. You may be familiar with the UX-Maturity model created by the Nielsen Norman group; The chart, which is often discussed in UX curriculums and conferences, covers the 6 stages of user-centric organizations from absent to user-driven….
More than nine months out from my latest post, I have a confession to make: The heaviness of last year’s events have kept me from being able to dedicate any mental energy to updating this blog. I realize that there isn’t a teacher or boss sternly tapping their foot at me for neglecting to post…
2020 has been… rough. I think it’s safe to say that it’s been a difficult year for everyone. Months of quarantining due to COVID-19 has left me with a lot of time I neither expected nor wanted. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the simpler, carefree days of restaurant and concert-going of…
Hello there! Welcome to this “I’m so proud of myself” blog post. I have big news! Drum roll please. . . As of December 2019, I am officially done with my Digital Media Master’s program at Northeastern University! Over the course of 32 months, I completed 13 courses and one semester-long thesis project, all while…
Goodbye 2019… Hello 2020! With New Year’s resolution brainstorming sessions fresh in mind, 2020 brings plenty of opportunities for reflection on how to improve in the months ahead. This year, I want to shake it up a little though. I also want to spend some time looking back at how far I’ve come professionally, starting…
Digital Accessibility: This site was included in a response to a civil rights lawsuit filed against Northeastern (as well as 49 other higher education institutions) on the grounds that many of the web properties for the university were not meeting digital accessibility standards. One of the main hopes in building this site was that it…
Last month, I attended a higher education multimedia workshop in Philadelphia that I gained a ton of amazing insight from. At the workshop, I learned from leaders in university engagement, video production, podcasting, social media, and photography. I’ve dabbled in all of these subject areas, but it was so fascinating to learn from people that…
This will be a quick post, but I wanted to pop in briefly to talk about one of my newest pastimes: pour painting! Pour painting is a technique in which acrylic paint is mixed with some type of pouring medium (such as paint additive and water) and then poured onto a canvas in a variety…
For those that are interested in UX/UI, I recently stumbled upon an incredible TED Talk by Aza Raskin, the head of user experience at Mozilla Labs and lead designer for Firefox, called “Don’t Make Me Click.” Before I delve into a discussion about it, let me get this straight: I wouldn’t normally write a full blog…
I want to tell you a story about how I learned that the biggest career failures can often lead (directly or indirectly) to some of the biggest career successes. In this case, I want to tell you the story about how I once created a drawing in 10 minutes that morphed into the mascot for…
