Melinda Gates: Break Down the Barriers Keeping Women out of Technology

Melinda Gates at lectern, pausing and smiling during her talk

When Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, kicked off the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference with her keynote today, she shared a fascinating story about her youth and her first love.

She fell in love in high school. Hard.

It was an all-consuming love, changing how she felt about her life, what she did, and how she lived.

However, her husband Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is not fond of this story from her high school years.

Why? Continue reading Melinda Gates: Break Down the Barriers Keeping Women out of Technology

How to Make Your Next Video Conference Call Run Smoothly [Infographic]

desktop with Mac computer, webcam, and laptop

Who hasn’t been in the middle of a video conference call when all of a sudden, the video freezes?

Or the sound disappears?

Or a new person starts talking on the call and you have no idea who they are, because they didn’t introduce themselves?

I know it happens, because it happened to me again this week. Continue reading How to Make Your Next Video Conference Call Run Smoothly [Infographic]

How to Return to the Top of a Web Page

child toy top on its side, sitting on top of wood table

While I was reading today’s Nielsen Norman Group’s article on back-to-top links design guidelines, it confirmed something I noticed when I recently conducted usability testing.

When usability testing participants were asked to return to the top of the page, the majority weren’t aware of the browser and operating system built-in options to get back to the top of the page. Continue reading How to Return to the Top of a Web Page