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Nov 19, 2020

The Queen’s Gambit & Kentucky

Place in visual narrative and why this show is over-hyped — The way setting is employed in a visual narrative is a microcosm of the quality of its writing and directing. If you happen to know a setting well, it doesn’t take long to recognize a mediocre show. I was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, where Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit…

Netflix

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The Queen’s Gambit & Kentucky
The Queen’s Gambit & Kentucky

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·Nov 10, 2020

Why we stay

5 ways a team that designs together, sticks together. — I’ve left a lot of design teams. Sometimes it was because there wasn’t room for me to grow. Sometimes I left because I was underestimated and gaslighted. Sometimes I didn’t believe what I was being asked to design. There are a lot of big and small reasons designers move on…

UX Design

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Why we stay
Why we stay

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·Aug 27, 2020

Design as deep-sea diving

What a pandemic teaches us about product design. — I plan ahead. Both as a product designer and in my personal life. It’s a pretty common human tendency. But there’s so much we can’t anticipate when we first make those plans. Things happen — whether it’s as local as a personnel change or as global as a pandemic. Then…

Product Design

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Design as deep sea diving
Design as deep sea diving

Mar 26, 2015

On Missing Kentucky

August 2014. This week I learned the meaning of burn out. For 8 months I’ve worked a job whose hours and emotional labor extend well past M-F 9–5. I live at the top of a 6-block hill in San Francisco’s Excelsior, and have had to adjust to hoisting groceries on…

Kentucky

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On Missing Kentucky
On Missing Kentucky

Oct 16, 2014

Civic Designathon: A Civic Iconathon at Code for America’s Summit 2014

If your city had to communicate without words — could it? — Icons transcend language. When communicating without language, you need images. But what happens when there aren’t icons for what you’re trying to say? What happens if you’re trying to tell someone applying for food stamps that they need a birth certificate? How do you say that without words? The Inspiration After helping…

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Civic Designathon: A Civic Iconathon at Code for America’s Summit 2014
Civic Designathon: A Civic Iconathon at Code for America’s Summit 2014
Ainsley Wagoner (she/her)

Ainsley Wagoner (she/her)

Product Designer and Musician in San Francisco.

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