Optimizing for empathy in design – Part II
In the previous post, I wrote about the different ways I optimize for empathy in design. It was easy to apply these, seeing as I was designing for someone I know. What about when designing for someone...
View ArticleSometimes you need to build it from scratch
One of the most fun things, in retrospect, that I do every few years, is interview for positions. My background is in programming and user experience design, and the latter is seeing unprecedented...
View ArticleMastering Mobile
It’s 3:30am. The team I’m a member of, The Blue Shakamakas, just won a quiz. I came up with the Shakamakas part of the name: it reminded me of when I was eight or nine, and my younger siblings and I...
View ArticleBack to the ease of film
If I asked you how you tell a good photo, or a professionally-taken photo, it’s likely you would answer that it must be sharp and with the right areas in focus, and if you were a bit artsy you might...
View ArticleEl Celler de Can Roca – all the food that’s fit to eat
“Did we really just eat for four hours?” I asked, as we polished off the last of four dessert dishes, an arrangement of distinctly-flavored chocolate strips leading to a neat heap of crispy chocolate...
View ArticleWinter.
Winter is a temporal desertland, its enjoyment expanded only by the warmth of communality: air molecules suffused with the aura of hearty food, the heat of others’ being, and the resonating sound of...
View Articleon amazon.
This photo was taken last month, during a sunny Saturday spent hiking in the fields. Around 100 cows and sheep, accompanied by their shepherd, paused to nibble on the leaves from nearby shrubs, the...
View Articlecomputer science
Am I still a computer scientist if I started a fashion design company eight years ago? Even if I’m the web master, graphic designer, and programmer for said company? It’s a bit of a career identity...
View ArticleOut on a disorderly artistic limb
For my most recent birthday, some of my friends presciently gave me a sketchpad. Although I thought nothing of it at the time, I recently took a break from bag making to return to my first love: art....
View ArticleOn Kindness
If kindness were a fabric, would it be silk, smooth to the touch, with a rumble of tight weaves concealed beneath the smooth surface? Linen, porous and transparent, keeping everything light? Would it...
View ArticleDispatch from quarantine
On Saturday, Spain joined a host of countries and cities in Europe, North America, and Asia, in urging, mandating, and in some cases, police-enforcing a self-quarantine and confinement to closed,...
View ArticleDispatch from Quarantine 2: dia del padre
On Saturday, Spain joined a host of countries and cities in Europe, North America, and Asia, in urging, mandating, and in some cases, police-enforcing a self-quarantine and confinement to closed,...
View ArticleOut on a disorderly artistic limb
For my most recent birthday, some of my friends presciently gave me a sketchpad. Although I thought nothing of it at the time, I recently took a break from bag making to return to my first love: art....
View ArticleA different photo shoot than the ones I usually do.
This has been a pretty amazing week, with trips to get fabric for work, attendance of social media week lagos events, and a photo shoot that I had been conceiving in my mind’s eye for months. It’s hard...
View Article“The car was grippy” and other F1 comments
Formula 1 is amazing and I’m so happy the season has kicked off. I was watching the driver comments at the end of today’s Sochi GP Q3 (qualifying round 3) and it’s just so cool to see what relationship...
View ArticleMinku in Harper’s Bazaar
I like the part of this text that relates to Minku so much that I will be creating a bookmark of it here. Thanks to Lauren Alexis Fisher, Andreas Zendejas, and Jaclyn Alexandra Cohen for characterizing...
View ArticleStop buying Dutch Wax (Vlisco)…
Stop buying Dutch wax (Vlisco) fabric and clothing, thinking you are buying into African design or supporting the African fashion industry. You are not. While I like batik prints as much as the next...
View ArticleHungry
It’s nice to see all the drivers so hungry. From the front to the middle to the back of the grid, which isn’t saying much seeing as the grid was compressed to two-thirds its usual size by Lap 2, every...
View ArticleWalls
Once I took a course in high school or university where we did an exercise in word associations. Teacher says a word, students discuss what associations come to mind on hearing the word. Today´s word...
View ArticleAddressing the Commonwealth’s Virtual Currencies Working Group
Last week, I visited London to address the Virtual Currencies Working Group of the Commonwealth on bitcoin and other digital currencies. Digital currencies are interesting to me because they are new...
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