“ESXi support for Apple Mac Pro 6,1″
Just a quick post to boost the signal for William Lam’s post “Quick Update - ESXi support for Apple Mac Pro 6,1″: I know many of you have been asking about ESXi support for the latest Mac Pro 6,1 that...
View Article“Know Thy User: The Role of Research in Great Interactive Design”
I stumbled across a slideshow from David Sherwin of frog design, giving an excellent introduction to user research and how to incorporate it into the design process. In the presentation, he answers...
View ArticleQ&A: UX interviews
During an intern recruiting event, I was asked what I look for in UX interviews. Your UX skills are necessary, but not sufficient. If you are a designer, I want to see examples of designs that...
View Article“Community stories of VMware & Apple OS X in Production”
My colleague William Lam at Virtually Ghetto has been collecting community stories of VMware and OS X in production. So far, he’s published two stories: VMware’s internal vSphere OS X environment...
View Article“Integrating women into the Apple community”
Brianna Wu, head of development at Giant Spacekat (who have just released their first iOS game, Revolution 60) wrote a great piece titled “Eve wasn’t invited: Integrating women into the Apple...
View Articlemore community stories of VMware and Apple OS X in production
My colleague William Lam of Virtually Ghetto has been busily talking to more system administrators who have virtualized OS X in a production environment. The most recent two are: Blake Garner of Adobe...
View ArticleVMworld Women of Purpose
Are you coming to VMworld? The annual VMworld Women of Purpose event still has some seats left. The theme this year is “Building Your Personal Brand”. If you want one of those few remaining seats,...
View Articlethe scaling of user experiences
A colleague pointed me at an article by Jonathan Courtney titled “Want the Best User Experience? Make it Harder to Add Features”. I thought I would read an article that preached to my choir. I have...
View Articlethe power of “thank you”
User researchers are always asking for favors of people. It’s the nature of research. You’re asking your design team to help you get prepared for the research, often creating or helping to create the...
View ArticleQ&A: UX portfolios
I recently was asked by a student what they should put in their UX portfolio. This is closely related to the question about UX interviews. Many UX interviews, both research and design, start with a...
View Article“Inspiring Growth through Conversation at the Grace Hopper Conference”
The VMware Careers blog has a Q&A with me about how I got into computing, my presentation at Grace Hopper, and more. This is their last question: Fill in the blank: Be inspired to do your best...
View Articlewhat’s next?
I recently conducted research which revealed that we had failed to consider one of the most important questions for our users: what’s next? During the research, users successfully got through each...
View Articleinspiration
I noticed that the official VMware tweets about their Q&A with me talk about “the inspiration behind my work”. They got my inspiration to get started in computing, which isn’t the same as what...
View ArticleBP and college students have something in common
When I was working at Microsoft, I had the opportunity to observe research that one of my colleagues conducted about how college students used Word. During a focus group, while discussing writing...
View ArticleQ&A: moving from technical writing to user experience
I got the following question this week: I am a technical writer with experience in usability. I do not have a professional degree in design to support my credentials as a UX professional. Is it...
View ArticleNadyne @ Grace Hopper
Next week is the Grace Hopper Celebration! I’m excited. It really hit me last night as I was putting the final tweaks on my poster. Here’s my current schedule for the event: Wednesday, 7:30-9:30pm:...
View Article“Four Interactions That Could Have Gone Better”
I’ve been doing a fair amount of tech events lately, which is probably why this blog post from Bridget Kromhout resonates so strongly. She starts off thusly: If you’re wondering why women don’t attend...
View ArticleSilicon Valley diversity irony from The New York Times
This weekend, The New York Times published an op-ed about “Silicon Valley’s Diversity Problem”. A dressing down from the Times on diversity is painfully ironic, given that the Times has the biggest...
View ArticleGrace Hopper sessions I’m looking forward to
Oh, the places you’ll go! Wednesday: 9:30am: opening keynote by Shafi Goldwasser 12:30pm: “Executive Presence: Making the Leap” workshop 2pm: “Leadership Strategies for High-Impact Women” workshop...
View Article“The Mid-Career Donut Hole” references
In my GHC poster “The Mid-Career Donut Hole”, I define it as follows: Women are at least twice as likely to drop out of technical careers after 10 years. The Mid-Career Donut Hole is the time when...
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