A Second Look at Appear.in for Video Conferencing

create a room link with appear.in

I was out bird watching Sunday evening, but I didn’t want to miss our Michigan User Experience Professionals’ Association conference call.

So I used the call-in option for the video conferencing application.

Sat in my car on a dirt road as sunshine flickered through the tall 75-foot-tall trees, peered at the email message for the call-in number, and called in. Continue reading A Second Look at Appear.in for Video Conferencing

How We Can Find Ourselves in Data [TED Video]

Giorgia Lupi

In her TEDNYC Design Lab talk in March 2017, information designer Giorgia Lupi discussed how we make sense of the data in our everyday life.

And that sometimes to make sense of data, we have to forget about it. And see through it. Continue reading How We Can Find Ourselves in Data [TED Video]

On Websites, Hacking, and Two-Factor Authentication

Woman using a smartphone while drinking coffee

Imagine it’s Saturday, and you’re looking forward to spending the weekend with your spouse and two children.

An unexpected message from your father alerts you to a problem with your website.

And that’s when the next three days turn into a nightmare of phone calls, messages, frustration, anxiety, and a scary financial interaction of thousands of dollars. Continue reading On Websites, Hacking, and Two-Factor Authentication