Impact Hub: Help Millennials Make Better Financial Decisions

On January 31st, Decision Fish led a lively session on how to Help Millennials Make Better Financial Decisions as part of Impact Hub NYC’s 100 Days of Impact program. 100 Days of Impact is intended to figure out what we can do as a community to address concerns and make an impact in an era … Read more

Data Detox: A Journey into My Digital Past

What Strange Wonderful Things Lurk in Your Digital Footprint? While running a Data Detox, I came across a review of my 2016 DH Week Workshop, “Pinterest as Digital Exhibition” from Pratt student, Akaya Sato.  This was interesting. I did the detox primarily in the hopes of reducing my data footprint. I knew I might find … Read more

Short Bursts: Noreen Whysel

The Information Architecture Summit has a feature where they ask members of the community to answer the same ten questions. The feature editor, Marianne Sweeney, invited me to participate. “Short bursts is a head start on meeting some of the smart, talented, funny, thoughtful, creative and disruptive information architects, user experience professionals and content strategists … Read more

Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World

Amy Jeu and I curated a weekend exhibit, Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World, on October 29-30, 2016 at the Queens Museum celebrating the map-making community. The event featured talks and demonstrations as well as a hall dedicated to paper and digital maps submitted from the private collections of members of the GISMO community. … Read more

Is 38 Too Old to Start a Career as a UX Designer?

I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. A lot of what makes a good UX designer/researcher/architect are the soft skills that you only really develop having been in the working world for a while, … Read more

New IDESG Service Empowers Organizations to Better Protect Digital Identities

Registry Is Key Step in Growing Healthy and Secure Online Identity Ecosystem Marketwired Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) Jun 6, 2016 8:00 AM WASHINGTON, DC–(Marketwired – Jun 6, 2016) – The Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) — an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to creating the future of trusted digital identities — today announced a new … Read more

Wikipedia at IA Summit 2016

As a Wikipedian who has been increasingly involved with editathons in New York City since completing my MLIS degree at Pratt Institute School of Information, I have been interested in creating bridges between the Wikipedia and IA communities. Thanks to a Wikimedia Foundation TPS grant, I was able to represent Wikipedia at the 2016 IA … Read more

Driving the Dome

For eight weeks every Wednesday, Brett and I snuck away under darkness and rain to the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium to learn how to make a star show. We learned the ins and outs of the planetarium’s computer controls and presented shows for our family and friends on March 30th in the dome. … Read more