PinnedMaking Shazam SuperShazam UX Redesign Concept // General Assembly UXDI Program — “Our mission is to help people recognize and engage with the world around them” — Shazam’s mission statement What makes music discovery super? Shazam, the leading song discovery app since 1998 (yes…1998), has been a loyal tool for many music lovers, but since the rise of top discovery apps such…User Experience Design13 min readUser Experience Design13 min read
Mar 19, 2020Resources for Producing Beats / BeginnerAs a lady making jams for over 10 years, it’s taken many googles, youtube watches, conversations, dj-ing workshops, courses, and concert goings to shape my tastes and knowledge of home music production. …Music2 min readMusic2 min read
Nov 14, 2016How can we reverse the whitewashing of our feeds?This whole “google cleanse” has me thinking about everything I associate with my “world,” which is predominately internet-related things… we live in bubbles, everywhere, open abysses that we shout into as a cathartic way of processing the events around us. Trump became president because he manipulated the media, he manipulated…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Published in Sfpc·Nov 14, 2016A Week Without Googlehttps://www.courses.tegabrain.com/SS15/?page_id=509 In light of the post-elect, I’m sick of adapting and passing through life having access to all of its conveniences and not appreciating those conveniences. So fuck google for a week. I have yet to complete my full week, but I’m choosing to do so next week (during Thanksgiving…Google1 min readGoogle1 min read
Published in Sfpc·Oct 31, 2016What is Poetic Computation?When I began to write this post I tried using tab and the space bar to create a coded pattern of abstract blankness, nothingness to my story. This is poetic computation in its entirety. It is taking something abstract, such as typing words, writing code (how are they different really…)…Functional Programming2 min readFunctional Programming2 min read
Published in Sfpc·Oct 11, 2016What do you want SFPC to be?What do you want SFPC to be? The first two days of SFPC could not have been better, mostly covering the conceptual aspects that will shape the learning process — i.e. …Programming1 min readProgramming1 min read