Posts Tagged ‘conferences

I just got back from a hectic week in Boston at the CHI 2009 conference. I spent a couple of days wandering around Boston, and I think it just may be my new favorite American city…what a wonderful place. Beautiful architecture, great food, amusing accents. Monday, we got down to brass tacks, and WantKnot and [...]

It’s been a week since I got back from the Information Architecture Summit. It was great, and fascinating, and interesting. There’s been a lot of food for thought churning in the back of my head, and now I’m going to try to make sense of it. One of the strongest themes was about pulling together [...]


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My name is Leanna Gingras and I'm a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. My main vice is angry muttering. Instead of angrily muttering to myself whenever I encounter an astonishingly ineptly-designed object, I will mutter about it here and you can read it and we can angrily mutter together. I'll also be posting about stuff I do, links I think are nifty, and places I go.

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