Given that I wrote some not very nice things about Classics product design last, week, I thought this would be a good week to talk about Classics product design done right. So, here goes: Right before I moved, I bought a book. It was really the last thing I should have done, given that the
Note: this is cross-posted on the University of Texas Linguistics Research Center blog. And after publishing I had a really interesting Twitter conversation that also pointed me to some new resources. I spent this weekend in Vancouver, at IA Summit. “IA” is short for information architecture, a discipline whose purpose is organizing web information for humans. That
Update 3/28/2017: The site is still terrible, but it turns out there’s workaround (that isn’t advisable and will by no means work for everyone) for the problem I had. Note: in design-speak, a “dark pattern” means that a bad website experience is not the result of mere ignorance or incompetence, but rather, is the result of
I’ve always hated those annoying people who have “500+” LinkedIn connections. Obviously that meant I had to become one of them. So, last year, as a half-joke, I made that a yearly goal. I didn’t make my goal, but that’s okay because if you make your goals 100% of the time, you’re not setting ambitious
On October 12, I gave a presentation to some Vanderbilt history PhDs, covering the steps they’d need to take to find non-academic employment. In it, I emphasized the need to network, both because you were never going to get a job with just a resume, and because eventually, you’d need to find someone who would