Teaching and Academic Research

I am an experienced instructor, workshop facilitator and corporate trainer, having taught UX design, market research, customer development, and financial decision making at startup incubators, hackathons, conferences, boot camps and traditional classrooms. I teach UX and UI Design and Web Design I and II at CUNY New York City College of Technology. I have also … Read more

Losing Our Third Place

3 Women in a Liminal Space. Image by Night Cafe AI.

I have been working from home for a couple decades, so a number of things were new for me during the COVID pandemic, and the hardest was probably having everyone else at home with me. My husband and my eldest who was in college and studying remotely, and occasionally my youngest who was in off-campus … Read more

Ethical Design: Evaluating Digital and IRL Experiences (and how one might support or hinder the other)

During the Winter 2022 intercession, I took part in the Living Lab General Education Seminar which is described on its website as follows: The seminar is designed to make General Education more visible in our classrooms and courses. We will build an engaging environment for learning through exploration, implementation, and assessment of a variety of proven teaching practices using Oral … Read more

The Occasional Mentor: Kill Your Darlings

THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR is a semi-regular column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Kill Your Darlings I am working on a project with a friend who … Read more

Downward Dot Voting

My friend Austin Govella wrote today on using a kind of whole-body dot voting to teach teams to “Vote With Your Feet“. We are in a Liminal Thinking group on Facebook where he initially threw his ideas around. I was excited that he chose to add my comment about using negative dots to vote down … Read more