For my final human-centered design project, I used an iterative process to improve postal service access for deployed humanitarian workers. I conducted one preliminary survey, and one round of user-feedback sessions. I'd first identified this problem while working as an aid worker in 2022: I needed to renew my state ID, but found myself troubled by the legal grey-area which was my residential status. We lived in community buildings and churches, and maintained no permanent ad

It’s a curious habit of mine to always sit in the QA section of libraries, which, in the Congressional Library System, houses books about radiation and dosimetry. Admittedly, $1 an hour becomes less appealing when surrounded by books about science. This is where today’s word comes from...

It’s a curious habit of mine to always sit in the QA section of libraries, which, in the Congressional Library System, houses books about radiation and dosimetry. Admittedly, $1 an hour becomes less appealing when surrounded by books about science. This is where today’s word comes from...

The noun form, absurdism, is “a philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational … that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail.” Certainly, I don’t have information to prove or disprove this prophetic thought. More often, I associate the terminology with a literary movement...

We're already so busy, what if we removed some of the distractions? Graphic by Marin Macro *This article contains subjective thoughts,...