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Jun
On N.W.A., truth in journalism, and free speech.
I don’t know why I am so interested in social justice. I don’t know why I am so
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Callie Neylan
12
Jun
Friday, August 21. The shoes I wore to meet the architects.
A set of Copic markers is not cheap. But good tools are valued in the Office Design studio, where we
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12
Jun
Wednesday, July 29. The shoes I wore to meet the architects.
Would have been these shoes, except that I didn’t meet with the architects (note: it’s plural now). I
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12
Jun
A Second Sunday. An eighth month.
I like to think that meals like these provide ballast. They’re something we can count on, that we can
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12
Jun
Wednesday, June 3. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
My house is not a piece of software. It is not a computer or an application program. But it is
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12
Jun
On Microsoft Excel, Big Software, and Brazilian Favelas.
I often telling people designing for Excel is more like urban design than anything else. Because like a city, big
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12
Jun
On touching data.
Touch interface design guidelines dictate that the more simple and limited the gestural language used to control a system, the
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12
Jun
On loving fashion.
Seattle is ranked high on the list of America’s worst-dressed cities. Right up there with Boulder, Cleveland, and Raleigh,
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12
Jun
Tuesday, January 13. The shoes I wore to meet the architect.
Design is about constraints. Technical constraints, physical constraints, financial constraints, political constraints. We are at the stage in our home
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12
Jun
On birthday cake and ramen noodles.
In exactly two weeks, I will be 48. Which means it’s time for birthday cake.
Enter my coworker, Safiya,
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