Stream of Consciousness
Hi! My name is Annie. I am a user experience researcher and designer. I'm currently a graduate student at the University of Michigan- School of Information studying Human Computer Interaction.

I created this blog to capture my random musings from the things that I observe, read, watch and photograph. Thanks for visiting!
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Richard Wentworth, False Ceiling

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Rodney Smith Photography

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Erin Bury's random musings: The 8 Startups I Can't Live Without

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When you’re in a bubble it’s hard to remember that there are people outside of it. I forget sometimes that some people don’t spend their days researching new startups, reading startup blogs, and talking to new entrepreneurs. So I’m trying to share my startup discoveries with more people so they…

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CNN Redesign

I checked out CNN today and was surprised to find that the site has been redesigned. The UX geek in me took over and I immediately clicked and scrolled through the site to take it all in….do I love it? hate it? prefer it over the previous design?…and have come to the conclusion that I am NOT a fan of the redesign.

Here are some of the reasons why…

  1. Latest News- I am coming to the site to find out about the latest news, and I’m sure millions of others are looking for the same thing because it is a news site (obviously).  Instead of featuring the “Latest News” section at the top of the page, it’s found mid-page under featured stories that I may or may not care to look at depending on the subject matter.  I have a 13 inch Macbook, which means that I have to scroll to view the full list of “ground breaking news”  - LAME.   So for all the net book users out there, sucks for you, you don’t get to view latest news above the fold.
  2. Header-   Does it really need to take up that much screen real estate?   Another interesting observation is that CNN has re-branded themselves by dropping the .com off there logo.

I’m sure that there are a lot of cool/ lovable features of the site that I have yet to explore, since discovering the redesign 15 minutes ago, but those are my initial thoughts, off the cuff.

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3 years ago on October 24th, 2009 at 11:55 pm | Permalink

Photo of the Day: Walking Art

During my internship in Mountain View, I had the chance to explore norcal by going on a photo walk of the Berkeley area.  I captured this shot as while perusing the goods of various street vendors and boutique stores.

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3 years ago on September 11th, 2009 at 9:52 am | Permalink

Photo of the day: Good Morning

I took this photo at my Grandma’s house in Toronto.  Like most grandmas, her old house had an eclectic collection of old furniture, outdated electronics and random decoration from decades past.  I slept on the futon in the living family room and this is was my view of the front window at the break of each new day. I was mesmerized by the way the light would stream through the curtains.  Good Morning.

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3 years ago on September 9th, 2009 at 12:08 am | Permalink

Canada!

I spent the past week in Toronto, Canada for a family vacation.  Here are a few highlights from my trip!

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3 years ago on August 26th, 2009 at 9:07 pm | Permalink

My Internship

My 10 week internship at NASA AMES Research Center ended a few weeks ago. The program that I was affiliated with organized tours to show the interns more about the what goes on around the base.  Here are some pictures that I took of our learning excursions.  We were given tours of various training simulators. Training simulators are designed to provide researchers with an environment where they can study how and why aviation errors occur.  Their purpose is to offer researchers a suite of simulation facilities and utilities that can be used to analyze flight crew performance and to develop and improve new simulation and training tools.

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