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Published in Pinterest Design

·Apr 11

Pinterest’s Product Design Apprenticeship: A Q&A

Pinterest’s Apprenticeship Program was created in 2016 to create opportunities for candidates from non-traditional backgrounds and underrepresented identities to enter the tech industry, including people who identify as women, Black/African American, Latiné or Hispanic, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, and/or Pacific Islander and LGBTQ+. Through on-the-job learning and collaboration…

Design

10 min read

Feb 22, 2021

How boxing made me a stronger designer

Frankie Kastenbaum

Frankie!! Lovely to see an article from a Clubhouse friend :)

Frankie!! Lovely to see an article from a Clubhouse friend :) I actually feel the *same* way about my powerlifting/mobility training hobby, and wanted to eventually write a similar article! Love it 🙌🏽

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Frankie!! Lovely to see an article from a Clubhouse friend :)

I actually feel the *same* way about my powerlifting/mobility training hobby, and wanted to eventually write a similar article! Love it 🙌🏽

Published in Prototypr

·Feb 1, 2021

I wanted to challenge myself as a young designer, so I redesigned Silicon Valley’s buzziest app, Clubhouse.

Reimagining Social Media’s next star: A Case Study. Disclaimer: I do not work for Clubhouse, and the views in this case study are strictly my own. As a budding designer, I acknowledge that my vision for this project may be overly ambitious and at times reliant on assumptions of business…

Technology

11 min read

I wanted to challenge myself as a young designer, so I redesigned Silicon Valley’s buzziest app.

Published in UX Planet

·Nov 12, 2020

What every designer needs to know before their first hackathon

My Experience and Lessons Learned Attending (and Winning) My First Hackathon — One of the reasons I love the world of design so much is that its constant evolution requires you to maintain a growth mindset, always eager to upskill or explore a new craft; as someone who finds great fulfilment in a meaningful challenge, this lends especially well to me. And…

9 min read

What every designer needs to know before their first hackathon

Published in UX Collective

·Sep 22, 2020

Interconnecting our world in 1̶4̶0̶ 280 characters or less

Dissecting the Usability, Accessibility, and Ethics of Twitter. — Twitter (or TWTR, as it was named in its 2006 inception), is one of the most prolific and powerful social media platforms used today. Though its humble beginnings were inspired by Jack Dorsey’s fascination with the concept of “statuses” (a close cousin of the beloved “away messages” used on live…

6 min read

Interconnecting our world in 1̶4̶0̶ 280 characters or less

Published in The Startup

·Sep 4, 2020

When Assumptions Lead to Failures

The Rise and Fall of Rhapsody, the Revolutionary Streaming Service You Probably Never Heard About Background The year is 2001, and the music consumption ecosystem was rapidly (and radically) changing. Apple had just launched iTunes, and by December of that year (2 months after the revolutionary iPod was released), Rhapsody was…

4 min read

Published in Design Warp

·Aug 30, 2020

What Makes a Product Great?

Differentiating Between Good and Great Product Design Products are objects, systems, goods, and services that consumers use. Products are all around us: our versatile coffee machine that delivers us our daily caffeine fix before a long day, the mug we use as a vessel for that ritualistic morning brew, our…

User Experience

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