DRIVE

I am an experienced UX designer with a passion for creating simple and elegant solutions and a strong commitment to human-centered design. I am an effective system thinker with attention to details, experienced in the design process and am a passionate learner. I am currently working at Amazon on the Kindle team making the reading experience more engaging and satisfying. I have been an avid reader from a young age, spending years building up my personal library. I believe that reading is powerful- it helps us form our own point of view and define our character and I am excited to take part in that journey.

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If you chase [features] without understanding the emotional response to them, then you might find yourself in a place where you have something highly efficient but not enjoyable

[galitl]

This is the story of Evert_45

A Dutch boy sharing his story via YouTube and Instagram. Based on personal stories from World War II.

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Ikea Cook this Page

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"Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, 'I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.' Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself."

Amy Poehler

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[galitl]

A Google engineer reflecting on his career..."The things of which I'm most proud are the people that I've helped and the people whose lives I have impacted in a positive way....Regarding the technical things that I've accomplished, most of the software that I've written is obsolete, most of the technical solutions that I’ve created are not being used anymore because they've been superseded, but those lives that I’ve changed are still changed. The only things in my life that I regret are people that I have wronged."

[galitl]

Good work is grounded in an attention to detail and knowledge of and respect for the materials. The more experience I gain, the truer this proves itself. Pay attention, respect the material, listen to how it guides you, and be gentle. You’ll be surprised by what you can do and how flexible it all can be.

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2017/super-hi-foreword/

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un-designing” certain campaign graphics so that supporters could fill them with their own meaning, in turn making them more likely to go viral. “Our goal was not to be cool,” she said at the event. “It was to be accessible and even own-able.

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90109190/the-story-behind-im-with-her?partner=rss&utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcodesign&utm_content=rss

[galitl]

"These designers do this by engaging with the complex adaptive systems that surround us, by revealing instead of obscuring, by building friction instead of hiding it, and by making clear that every one of us (designers included) are nothing more than participants in systems that have no center to begin with. These are designers of systems that participate – with us and with one another – systems that invite participation instead of demanding interaction. We can build software to eat the world, or software to feed it. And if we are going to feed it, it will require a different approach to design, one which optimizes for a different type of growth, and one that draws upon – and rewards – the humility of the designers who participate within it."

http://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/design-as-participation

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If you get out of the way of your work, your work will tell you exactly what it needs. Usually your work is much more forward-thinking than you are.

Wonderful interview with artist Carrie Mae Weems, whose recent commencement address is one of the most creatively electrifying speeches ever given.  (via explore-blog)

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The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.

Chuck Close via swissmiss

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

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Seize the day, then let it go

Marty Rubin

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“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.”

– Goethe via swissmiss

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Great work doesn't come out of nowhere. It comes out of interactions with the people you seek to change.

Seth Godin | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/10/first-interact.html

[galitl]

So the way we build our networks matters in the most profound possible way. If we build networks that make it easy to abuse and harass, and make it difficult to defend against abuse and harassment, our children will come to see that as normal, even desirable. Similarly, if we build networks where it’s hard to abuse and harass, and easy to defend against such attempts, that will become the norm. System design is social design. The question is, what kind of society do we want to design?

Eric A. Meyer | https://the-pastry-box-project.net/eric-a-meyer/2015-september-2

[galitl]

“If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do not have as much money to buy supplies, or if you do not have access to the tools they have, beat them by being more thoughtful. Thoughtfulness is free and burns on time and empathy.”

Frank Chimero