Blog Articles
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Upcoming Events: Agency GIS Forum and Brooklyn Technology Transfer
Two upcoming events brought to you by GISMO and OWASP Brooklyn. Agency GIS Forum GISMO Thursday, February 5, 2015 100 Church Street 2:30 – 4:30 PM Join us to hear a round of lightning talks given by GIS directors and managers of City agencies. This will be a great opportunity to learn about innovative…
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NYPL Open Book Hack 2015
For the 2015 edition of the NYPL Open Book Hackathon, I participated with a team that was interested in pulling poetry out of Project Gutenberg and creating a user dialogue with a goal toward creating a custom book of poems, based on user preferences. We started out calling it “Pandora for Poetry,” but settled on…
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Semiotics in Mapping and Emergency Response
On November 1, 2014 I participated in a Semiotics Web and Information Architecture meetup at New York Public Library. Mypresentation, “Semiotics in Mapping and Emergency Response,” discusses symbology in mapping as an aspect of semiotics and presents an example of emergency response map symbology and a discussion of applications for first responders and broader uses.…
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Better Experience is the Payoff in Education
In Jon Kolko’s article, “Why Investment in Design is the Only Way to ‘Win’ in Education” (UX Magazine, September 16, 2014), he discusses how the value proposition of educational technology should be better education, and that the design of that experience should not be simply a “forgivable attribute.” “…for us to collectively realize the benefits…
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West 104th Street Block Association Talks IA
The April 15 issue of the West 104th Street Block Association Newsletter featured the efforts of my design team in an article about the Association’s pending website redesign. I also had the unexpected honor have my profile featured on their website. As part of the project, my design team conducted interviews, surveys and user testing…
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NYC Emergency Management Timeline
Client: NYC Office of Emergency Management Date: May 27, 2014 Visit Website In 2011, I participated in the NYC GeoSymposium 2001-2011-2021, which took a look at the advances and challenges of Geographic Information Systems in emergency response since 2001. I had been working with colleagues at GISMO for many years to draw attention to the important…
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Site Maps and Variations: A Real World Review
A sitemap is a useful tool both for users and designers of a web interface. Designers use sitemaps to visualize website navigation, while users rely on them in combination with search and browsing to help them find what they are looking for. A third user, search engines, rely on sitemaps in part to index websites.…
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West 104th Street Block Association Moves Ahead with Student Design
The West 104th Street Block Association voted to adopt the website design and strategy developed by my team at Pratt Institute. The new web design will update the association’s site from the outdated world of frames and IE4 era optimization to a sleek, modern WordPress interface. Key improvements include an organized layout, legible fonts, searchable…
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Stump and Moo
…and for my first piece of post-MLIS magic, I started a project cataloging cows. Literally. It’s a small cattle ranch management app and won’t be public. Mostly coding and connecting to no-SQL database MongoDB, which is based in JSON and has interesting linked data possibilities. I have also started interning at Architecture_MPS, an online architecture…