An analysis of the (non-academic) value offered by Georgetown University, versus the value offered by my study abroad program in Denmark.
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Infographic: Employee Distribution at GU
I created a scaled graph of the staff sizes of various Georgetown departments. The results are disturbing.
Zappos.com: Competency in E-Retail
About Zappos Founded in 1999 as an online shoe retailer, Zappos.com has grown to dominate its field through an obsessive, customer-centric philosophy combined with organizational and technological flexibility. Zappos’s offerings consist of a wide selections of shoes and clothing that customers purchase online and can expect to receive in as little as two days. The [...]
Comments on Access Usability
I found the user experience for Access appalling. One issue in particular that caused me hours of difficulty was the error messages. A typical error pop-up for Access follows a pattern along the lines of, “[The name of the field I just changed] has caused an error with [the name of the object was editing]. [...]
TEDxYSE
I attended TEDxYSE today, and I’m finding it hard not to criticize the event, for both its content and its implementation. Overall, I wouldn’t call it a waste of time, but I think it lacked a unifying, examined vision for what it wanted to convey. I expected to hear about design and technological solutions to big problems, but instead I feel like I got hit with more of the same.