This is the building that I practically live in during school. Today is the start of Fall Welcome at Western Michigan University. Campus is flooded with freshmen and their parents, getting everybody moved into the dorms. I’m a senior (halfway super-senior? It’s complicated) and I feel like that gives me some authority to give advice …
Month: August 2015
Roxane Gay is amazing, and I just found out that she did at TED talk about being a bad feminist, and the scrutiny that women who are public figures are held up to when they declare themselves to be feminists. We’re coming up on the tenth annivarsary of Hurricane Katrina. I was only 12 when …
Alison Parker and Adam Ward, Source This morning, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two reporters for WDBJ 7 in Virgina were murdered during a live broadcast. My heart goes out to their families and friends. It’s always incredibly difficult to lose someone close to you, and I imagine that pain is multiplied when it is so …
Design For Action – design thinking, in it’s murky, undefinable glory, is on the cover of Harvard Business Review. As design has moved further from the world of products, its tools have been adapted and extended into a distinct new discipline: design thinking. Arguably, Nobel laureate Herbert Simon got the ball rolling with the 1969 …
I first heard about Brené Brown from AndKathleen’s post about her a while back, and I’d read a few articles about her work on vulnerability, but I didn’t actually watch her TEDx talk until yesterday, when I was coooking for hours and needed something to distract me. Her talk is about her research on wholeheartedness – …
1. Consider the experience. This is a bit of wisdom I heard a lot at design school. You always have to think about the user experience. If someone walks into the kitchen at Motown and asks us to refill the cereal container, we have a choice – do we want to make that a positive …