natasha's corner

Ever since Microsoft improved the searching capabilities in Outlook, I have been using it more and more like Gmail (with its concepts of tags and archiving) rather than a traditional email client with folders. If you would like to reproduce the Gmail experience within Outlook, here is one way to do it. (Note: I use [...]

I’ve wanted to write more about dashboard design, but never felt like this was the right place to it because it’s my personal blog. So, as a new project for 2010, I decided to start a new blog. It’s called Uncharted and it’s all about applying user experience principles to dashboard design. I’ve moved a [...]

I’ve been pretty excited about the possibilities presented by OpenAmplify – I wrote a bit about it in my previous post. So I got thinking… Twitter is a good obvious place to start with text analysis, but wouldn’t it be cool to see the top topics and sentiment for any website you’re looking at? For [...]

This post has been moved to my new blog, Uncharted. Please continue the discussion there. I recently learned about OpenAmplify, a web service that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract meaning from text. I’m very familiar with NLP because I’ve worked on the Text Analysis team at SAP (previously with Inxight Software), so I [...]

At the start of 2009, I launched a mini-project called 365 days of music. I put this together in about a month and it’s not nearly complete, but there it is for now (maybe forever). The idea was that I wanted to share songs I like on the go and have an easy way to [...]

A couple weeks ago, we decided to remodel our master closet because the old one just wasn’t doing it for us. It had two high shelves that neither of us could reach easily and the hanger rod was totally warped from the weight of the clothes. So, we went to The Container Store and designed [...]

Today I found the publisher’s website for a book that I worked on – The Community Place: More than a place, a way of welcoming. I spent over a year on the layout and design of this book, mostly due to life getting in the way. It’s great to see it in print (and for [...]