A little over a week ago, I went to the 15th anniversary celebration of the Mayfield Fellows Program here at Stanford. Between the VC;s, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and professors in attendance, it was a pretty inspiring group of Valley professionals. My favorite part of the day was a portion dedicated to former Mayfield Fellows speaking about [...]
I haven’t updated napkintech in a while as midterms and job hunting have gotten in the way. In the spirit of getting back into blogging, I’ll start today with a short post about two videos I recently viewed. The main one is of a presentation given by Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square co-founder, at the [...]
The interface design must assure that a user can never inadvertently fire the ejector seat when all he wants to do is make some minor adjustment to the program.
I’ve always had an interest in the organizational structure of nonprofits and how to scale nonprofits’ efficiency up to the standard of their for-profit counterparts. Through my work with Stanford Nonprofits, I’ve noticed a few general deficiencies which could be ameliorated through tech solutions or better interface design, i.e. an interface for assigning and managing [...]
Recently, I co-wrote two papers based on my research at Stanford University and at Salesforce.com which have been accepted to the CHI 2009 conference: Beyond Usability: Evaluating Emotional Response as an Integral Part of the User Experience (salesforce.com) Toward an Experimental Methodology for Studying Persuasion-Based Online Security (Stanford University) I’m presenting both on Tuesday, April [...]
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