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elektrolyte79

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About elektrolyte79

I am a designer, educator and visual artist with a passion for interactive media, experience design, research and education. My approach is interdisciplinary in nature and follows design thinking methodologies: define, research, ideate, prototype, test, implement, and learn (not always in that order ;) ). I’m continually inspired and motivated by the possibilities present in creative problem-solving to help people in their everyday lives and build strong, sustainable businesses and communities.

I’ve worked on a variety of digital, print and research projects for Kaiser Permanente, IDEO, Next 10, Sony, Mitsubishi, Microsoft and San Francisco Bay Area food businesses and non-profits. At present, I practice Experience Design and User Research at Razorfish and teach community-based graphic design at California College of the Arts.

Visit my journal and portfolio at www.melissaannmartin.com for more information.

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    they are currently working with the Pivotal Labs team. They are not building it on their own - they have technical/backend/security support now.

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    Comment #2397183

    DROP BOX or Yousendit.com PRO

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    San Francisco, CA UX LEAD:: Razorfish https://jobs-razorfish.icims.com/jobs/8829/job FRONT END WEB DEVELOPER :: Razorfish https://jobs-razorfish.icims.com/jobs/8459/job SENIOR FRON…

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    Comment #2397151

    Diaspora is one alternative. I had the pleasure of meeting the founders and they are great guys. Their philosophy around social networks is that its your information and you should…

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    Comment #2352417

    I wonder how this compares to other areas of the country?

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    San Francisco Food Web

    I wonder how this compares to other areas of the country.

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    Bruce Sterling: Closing Keynote at Interaction '11

    "Design thinking has some problems... one of the worst problem it has is user Stockholm Syndrome."

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    Idea Execution + The Creative Process

    Really wonderful article from 99%

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    Comment #2307453

    Really found this article inspiring. I wrote a small commentary on it in my journal. http://www.melissaannmartin.com/the-human-skills/

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    Comment #2307448

    It's been said many times that there is no such thing as an original idea, that everything created in the world is a derivative of or inspired by something else. For the most part …

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    Looking to the skills of Humanism for the UX profession

    My inspiration for today was the article by David Brooks “The New Humanism” in the NY Times in which he discusses the emergence of a new understanding and appreciation of human nat…