books
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How I Built a Sales Page for The Reading Archive
Creating The Reading Archive has been a process of slowly turning an idea into something that feels like an actual product. I started with the idea of creating a digital reading journal because I wanted one place where readers could… Continue reading
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Finalizing My Digital Reading Journal
Over the past three weeks, I’ve been working on creating my own digital reading journal using Notion. What started as a basic database for tracking books has turned into a fully designed journal with reading challenges, monthly recaps, reading statistics,… Continue reading
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Why Your First Version Shouldn’t Be Your Final Version
When creating a digital product, it is easy to feel like the goal is to get everything right on the first try. When I started building my digital reading journal in Notion, I was mainly focused on making sure everything… Continue reading
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If It Doesn’t Sound Like You, Better Rewrite It
Somewhere along the way to today’s technology based writing style, we’ve lost our own ability to write in a voice that is unique to us. In my Interactive Writing class, I have thought deeply about what having a voice means… Continue reading
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Why Long-Form Content Is Still Needed In This Digital Age
*This essay was written entirely without the help of AI. We live in a society where we solely rely on getting our information or entertainment from a 15-second video, or a couple of paragraphs on a post. We know this,… Continue reading
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Write For Yourself To Help Someone Else
One of the most confusing and unexpectedly reassuring ideas in William Zinsser’s “On Writing Well” is from Chapter 5, where he discusses audience. Zinsser presents his audience with two different views. One view has writers being careful of losing the… Continue reading
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The Internet Feels So Loud (and Good Writing Can Help)
I didn’t know just how overwhelmed I was with online media until I took some time to reflect on my online reading habits this past week. By reading up on Jakob Nielsen’s theories of how people typically read online, Nicholas… Continue reading
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How Design Fiction Helps Visual Designers Imagine Sustainable Futures
The Future Through Design Many designers often ask one unimaginable question. “What if?” What if a brand could move beyond only being seen on a screen? What if products could evolve along their users? Design Fiction pushes that curiosity to… Continue reading
