original writings
A sampling of things written by myself. Come back, as I add more!
I enjoy occasionally writing short essays that reflect on life, technology and design. I also am working to do more creative writing —poetry, short stories.
Here are a few of my favorites. If you’d like to read more than what is linked below, follow me on Medium to get updates and see my other posts.
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Maximalist UI Design is Coming!
#cluttercore is coming to UI design and I, for one, and so excited. Read about it from me first, haha. ;-D
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Digital Inheritance Fallacy
A reflection on aging, the beautiful obsolescence of old tech, digital content hoarding, and letting go.
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Can Closed Captions UX be Better?
I love using captions to watch my streaming shows but I do not love the user experience of those text boxes. We can do better, folks.
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AI Design is Kinda BASIC
I look forward to moving beyond the command line, agentic interfaces of AI today, and to a world that explodes in form, function and color.
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Going Up vs. Growing Up
Linearity (in career, family, life) is a fallacy imo and so this is a reflection—a yearning for a new metaphor to encapsulate the success of growing into the best version of ourselves.
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Weathering & Sheltering
When I catch myself thrashing in a thunderstorm of pity or stress, I keep returning to a simple question: how can I create shelter from the rain?
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It’s Hard, and That’s the Point.
This is an essay about resiliency and doing hard things, told in the context of 3 areas of my own life: learning to code again, pregnancy, and building connections with others.
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The Practice of Reframing
I like to do a “Reframing” Checkup with myself, every so often. I reflect upon the practice in this short essay.