Here I am, 525 days later faithfully learning Dutch daily, endlessly charmed and fascinated by this language, amazed by how far I have gotten with five minutes a day on an app.
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Tag: human-computer interaction
Fighting, typing, and computing
Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been
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When women were computers
The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid
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Xed by X
X started asking me for my date of birth a few months ago. I can’t quite remember exactly when but
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Designing for transparency: The Futon Company
In design, an important concept is transparency. And indeed nowadays, there is a lot of lip service given to transparency
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