I’m not exactly the best at putting outfits together. I’ve stuck to a closet full of black clothes and plaid tops. The worse outfit I wore included combining a plaid top with vertically striped pants. I barely shop for clothes and I did one major shopping spree for clothing for…

How we transformed the design of a clunky, visual debugging tool through a user study — Data flows ingest several data sources such as comma-separated value files, tables, etc., and transform and process the data through several code modules. The data is eventually merged and joined and the output of this data. Examples of data flows are found in the scientific community where they have several…

Tips from first-hand experience in helping businesses recruit their first software developers — Many small to mid-sized enterprises across the US at some point in their business lifetime need a coder or developer to create some application or software or hack something up for them. In the small business setting, we found it common to encounter non-technical folks, people who have little to…

Update as of August 2022: What are the risks involve in investing overseas? Read here for more details. Real estate is the traditional route to wealth (not in the sense of being rich but rather as a form of investment). Property is an asset whose value almost always increases over…

How luxury brand users differ from the typical user groups — Luxury brand users are folks who predominantly buy from luxury, high-end brands such as Lamborghini, Gucci, Prada, etc. Luxury brand users want to exude high buying power to those around them. Recently, we had a luxury brand client request to create a mobile application for their luxury brand users. After…

Advice & soft skills from my journey of landing a research job where folks earn an average of 200K dollars a year. — Research staff members (RSMs) are part of research groups that aim to solve a particular set of scientifically challenging problems. RSMs have PhDs in related fields and most of their job entails reading and writing research papers. Other tasks include mentoring junior Ph.D. …

A brief summary of how various researchers designed user studies that evaluate the effectiveness of different interactive systems from machine learning to data extraction — In recent years, there is a boom in the development of interactive systems, such as apps, websites, and end-to-end tools. Interactive systems aim to help users complete certain tasks such as cleaning out errors in large datasets or quickly extracting tables from thousands of documents. Companies spend thousands of dollars…