Hangry UX

One of the things we talk about in UX is the quintessential use case: a description of the ways in which a user interacts with a system or product. Spoiler alert: there is always more than one use case, because there’s always more than one way to interact with a...

A year and change.

I am a very tired girl. It’s been 15 months since I was moved into IT Communications, and I’ve spent those months largely running at full throttle to stay ahead of Indiana Jones’ boulder, so to speak. I’ve (unintentionally) learned so much in...

Reset.

(Yes, there’s definitely a problem with the pacing of my posts. I’m afraid we’ll both have to get over it. Moving on.)   At the end of September 2020, Penn State IT unveiled a major realignment, letting 31 people go, eliminating some groups...

Practicing what we preach.

It has occurred to me on more than one occasion that I really do need to update my professional online presence. More than a decade ago, I was all over the internets and social media — so much so that people thought I did social media for a living. (I don’t.)...

Yo yo ma world!

Welcome to Sites At Penn State. This is your first post. Yes, I know it’s customary to delete this post when you first spin up a blog, but I’m keeping this one here for a while. I want it to serve as a reference point to when I started this site....
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