Natasha is a professional train rider, an amateur photographer, an avid kayak paddler, a long-time cartoon watcher, and a User Experience Designer at SAP. She lives in Massachusetts, on the outer outskirts of Boston.
Facebook’s auto tag feature
This made me do a double-take. Why would it think this photo had anything to do with the BostonCHI meeting? Well, that’s because it was uploaded while the BostonCHI meeting was going on (and it was in my calendar). I don’t know, doesn’t seem all that intelligent to me. Others disagree, though.
Steve Jobs on getting fired from Apple
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods [...]
Personal service
Last week my husband and I visited Greece. It is a truly beautiful country, no matter where you go – and we went just about everywhere (well, as much as we could in 9 days). One thing that immediately struck me about the country, or perhaps more about the people, was the level of personal [...]
Experience trumps logos
Take the time and money and effort you’d put into an expensive logo and put them into creating a product and experience and story that people remember instead. – Seth Godin
I wonder why…
… leaves turn brown and decompose if you leave them on the ground, but stay pretty and fresh-looking if you press them in a book?
Inventive nonchastity
In 1060, an imperial decree barred “every woman, every child, eunuch, smooth faced person, and female animal” from Athos, which suggests that there had been incidents of inventive nonchastity over the years. – Frommer’s guide for Greece
Nokia’s fairy door
When you try to access a page that doesn’t exist on the Nokia website, you get a funny “oops” image: Try it out – there are a couple other images you can get if you refresh. This is a great example of fairy doors that are funny and don’t get in the way of the [...]
Ringer + start page
An interesting observation came up today at the UI13 lunch: you can tell a lot about a person based on the combination of their ringtone and choice of start page for their browser. I had never made the connection before, but I always go without a ringtone (either silent or vibrate) and my start page [...]
