News for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

From battleship gray to rainbows and unicorns!

11 years ago today, I shipped my first product at Microsoft – Office XP. Looking back, I am realizing just how far technology has come in the last decade. Wow…! I left Microsoft in 2006 to work for myself as a User Experience design consultant. While my love for software design is still strong, I am happy to be able to balance that with work from my heart through Nadja Design: art, color and form. Here’s to looking back at battleship gray and moving forward to a place where rainbows and unicorns unite.

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Ring, ring… who’s there?

In a time of text based communication it’s getting easier and easier for people to reduce phone calls to a bare minimum. I was never one to voluntarily pick up the phone to just call someone to chat. At best, I’d use it to communicate something that couldn’t wait or to arrange a time to meet someone in person, at worst, I’d simply let it ring and wait for it to go to voice mail. For me as a visual person, I like to see someone when I talk to them, or at least read them in email or text messages. With Face Time, I am slowly warming up to “phone” conversations with friends and family overseas, but it’s still not the same as talking to them in person. Last week, a friend took me to an underground art show in Basel, Switzerland where this caged phone hung as part of an installation. It immediately spoke to me; a vintage phone hanging in mid air, out of reach as an object of the past. Would you pick it up if it rang?

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