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Incompetence, inertia, or dark UX at Havasupai?

Posted on February 4, 2019 by danielle

It took me 2 hours of clicking and refreshing to book a camping permit at Havasupai, also known as Havasu Falls, for my partner and a friend (I was out as soon as I heard the words “10-mile hike”). Permits usually sell

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Book review: Design for Real Life

Posted on November 21, 2016 by danielle

I recently had the pleasure of discussing Design for Real Life by Eric Meyer and Sara Wachter-Boettcher with a local UX book club.

Book review, Featured, User experience, Web design ui, user experience, user interface, ux Leave a comment

My take on a Craigslist redesign

Posted on November 17, 2016 by danielle

Aspiring designers are often encouraged to build their portfolio with their own speculative redesigns of existing websites or apps. Craigslist is a frequent target for such redesigns, and it’s easy to see why. 

Education, Featured, User experience, Web design craigslist, ui, user experience, user interface, ux Leave a comment

I’m on a podcast!

Posted on November 16, 2016 by danielle

You can listen on Soundcloud, or you can search your preferred podcast app for “The TechMill Podcast.”

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UX review: Virgin America

Posted on November 9, 2016 by danielle

I mentioned in a previous post that I’m taking a course on Visual Design from the fine folks at Skillcrush. One of our first assignments was to take a look at Virgin America’s website and give our opinion of the site’s UX.

Featured, User experience, Web design ui, user experience, user interface, ux, virgin america, webby award Leave a comment

Divergence Academy trains you to do cool things with data

Posted on November 7, 2016 by danielle

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a workshop on machine learning put on by Divergence Academy.

Education big data, education, machine learning Leave a comment

That time I started a fight and got a free phone charger out of it

Posted on July 11, 2016 by danielle

Disclaimer: results not guaranteed. There may not be a phone charger in it for you if you start a fight.

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Book review: Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg

Posted on July 4, 2016 by danielle

It’s not a book about UX per se, but I think a lot of the ideas in Smarter, Faster, Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg can apply to UX.

Book review, Featured, People skills, User experience, Web design Leave a comment

Why you gotta push Google Fonts, WordPress?

Posted on March 16, 2016 by danielle

WordPress really, really, really wants you to use Google Fonts. It actually wants you to use a small subset of Google Fonts, but without much hassle, you can set it up to where you can choose from their entire font library. But

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5 reasons why Skillcrush is so important to the tech industry

Posted on November 17, 2015 by danielle

We hear all the time about how there are more technical jobs available than there are people to fill them. You may have even heard that part of the problem is a tech workforce that isn’t as diverse as it could be.

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