A fellow interaction designer who we’ll call Haley showed me an accessibility spec for alternative text by the WCAG.  She wanted my advice. “When we build iconography, we put it all in a sprite and use CSS to display it as a background image. But this says that the image has to have alt text.” Yes, yes … Continue reading “The familiar road may not be the smoothest”

“I don’t know what people mean when they say they need to get their shit together.” For a second, I wanted to drop all the way through the floorboards, into the depths of the earth, and maybe find one of those underground streams that runs into the Sound. Maybe when I get my shit together … Continue reading “Getting Your Shit Together”

The team had lost key senior people. Suddenly, I was no longer a voice with an opinion. I was the one the rest of the team was looking to for cues about what to do. And I was fucking it up badly. In the middle of a conversation I dropped a sexist B-word when I … Continue reading “Put On Your Oxygen Mask First”