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Monday, December 23, 2013

Gingerbread Cookies: A Perfect Christmas Gift

Every year my friend Juliet makes these incredible gingerbread cookies. This time around she created them in shapes of forest creatures: a squirrel, a hedgehog, a snail and a bear. I did not get a chance to photograph them all, as they were so delicious! They were eaten very quickly. The bear is the only one I snapped a picture of right before I ate it with my coffee this morning. Yum!

Merry Christmas "From My Stoop To Yours"

Hand-drawn cards from my dear friend, artist and shoes designer Sarah Keane of DoThat:
Cafe Mogador & From my Stoop To Yours.

Happy Holidays!

It has been a while since I've posted here. The last six months of my life have been a whirlwind. I quit my job and moved to New York City to join the Product & Design track at Startup Institute NY as a way to change my career. Upon completion I received a job offer as a User Experience Designer at Brightstarr in NYC. Many other things had happened, some very tragic. I lost my only brother who, thankfully, came to visit me in the US for the first time ever in the beginning of this year. I have met many amazing new friends and gained new perspectives on life.

I wanted to thank all of my wonderful family and friends for all of the love and support. I would not be able to do it without you. Merry Christmas and here is to a Happy New Year 2014!

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Pinterest Redesign 1

I have been using Pinterest for a while now and am a huge fan of it. The application is awesome and super-addictive (I find myself spending hours late at night and on a weekend pinning away my favorite visuals). But as amazing as its functions are, there is definitely room for improvement. I recently created these mockups to show what I would like to see Pinterest implement.

Currently, when a user is looking at someone else's board there is no option to pin all the pins at once. In this study Pin All Pins button was added to enable users to grab all pins they like from a given board and add them to their own board. The option of pinning pins one-by-one will remain for those who like to be selective.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

SiNY: Day 12 of 38

An early afternoon session with Scott Haylon, the director of Business Development at Mortar Data Inc.:

The weekly 'therapy' session with Bradstreet Rand of SiNY. Helpful as always!

At the end of the day I went to my first networking event: The Ultimate Career Makeover, hosted by BaubleBar and The Muse (!!!) Made some great connections.
Had lots of fun.
Photos attached.