I have a theory: user experience (UX) thinking (which I’ll also call user-centricity) is an attitude that follows you into daily life. An organization that’s doing a great job of UX thinking is visibly better than one that isn’t, and you see the differences not just in the seamless ease…
The fiction we read as children, pre-adolescents, adolescents, and possibly even as adults has a lot to do with who we become. I can directly map the books I read (and a little bit of TV and movies) into the person I am, and as a geek feminist and a…
I’m not the first to post about this, and I hope I won’t be the last. But it’s been bubbling through my consciousness lately, and it has to come out. (Also, blame Andy, with his “librarians don’t blog about big issues” talk.) Maybe this is obvious to everyone, or I’ve…
There’s another side of the story I told in What is a Web Librarian, Anyway?, the guest post I wrote for Letters to a Young Librarian, run by the fabulous Jessica Olin. The story I told there was true, and I stand by it. But it wasn’t the whole story.…
Today a very sweet coworker told me that I have seemed “a little burned out,” lately, which was awfully generous: it would be more accurate to say that I appear to be trapped in an inescapable miasmic funk of epic proportions. All is not well. I am not well. My…
