Weird Side Projects

In 2016, April started actively creating a series of seemingly random one-offs, such as @FoodRomanceBot, a Twitterbot that writes food-themed romance novel excerpts, (mis)fortune cookies that say things like “She never really loved you” and quietly encouraging guerilla street signs – somehow they all turned out to be surprisingly related. Hear how these “weird side projects” ended up helping her address some messy human feelings, and how they actually helped her overall health and well-being as a person.

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Designing Tech Tools for Crisis & Natural Disaster Relief in Developed and Developing Countries

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Immersive Experience Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Culture, Design Thinking, Ethics, Innovation, Product Development, Service Design, Social Networks, Web & Mobile

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

Speaker Eriol Fox

Designing Tech Tools for Crisis & Natural Disaster Relief globally....

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