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Why You Should Work at a Startup While Going to Graduate School

Two years ago, I wrote an article for SVA’s Interaction Design department while attending the program. Although it has been ...

Mar, 28

Prototyping Your Next iOS App Directly on Your Mac

Note: This quick tutorial is for people that are using Macs and are familiar with Fireworks and its page linking ...

Mar, 19

Dumbledore and the Golden Wand of Illumination

Over this past holiday break, I took some time out to work on a gift for Sera who’s a huge ...

Jan, 05

Hack-o-Ween 2010/11

For the past couple of Halloweens, I’ve come to really enjoy hacking together costumes. Seeing everyday objects in a different ...

Nov, 03

From Joomla! to WordPress

Holy cow, I never thought that I’d be free from the shackles of my outdated Joomla! CMS, which still lurks ...

Mar, 07

Interaction Design Internship in Shanghai

Four months ago, I journeyed out to Shanghai for an internship that i was originally skeptical about. The description was ...

Sep, 12

Broadening Perspectives in Shanghai

In the “Designing for People” readings assigned on the first week of Thesis Prep with Liz Danzico, I came across ...

May, 11

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Oh snap! Just signed up for Tough Mudder in October with Team R/GA. http://t.co/MmIOBFHk
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In 2009, I switched gears from corporate web design drone to full-time graduate student at SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program. Currently, my interests on creating user engagement has spilled off the computer screen and into the environment and physical objects around us.

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