What is this place? It’s a framework for my thoughts and a notebook for my notes. From time to time I add pictures as well. It’s not really about any one thing, maybe more about every one thing, at some point or another. If that isn’t vague enough for you, just consider it a place for writing stuff down.
My name is Andrea Mignolo — pronounced anne-DRAY-ah, not anne-DREE-ah — and though I won’t correct you if you say it wrong, it silently irks me when you do. If you can’t keep it straight, just call me Andi, or even pnts[1]. The whole thing is pretty moot considering we are interfacing via a the web, but there it is.
At Brooklyn Beta - resorting to cards after losing my voice. Photo by Maykal Loomans.
I like windmills, funny hats, spinach, ducks, and beer. I also really like bourbon and soup; so much in fact, that for years I’ve dreamed of opening a shop that’s a soup cafe by day and a whiskey bar by night, though I still haven’t come up with a good name for the place. Conversely, I don’t like Scrappy Doo or asshats, and I downright despise pretzels, which means you’ll never catch me running a Scrappy Doo pretzel joint[2].
I <3 <3 <3 the internet. Every facet of it is intriguing; where it came from and where it's going, what it was built on, how people want to change it and how it changes people, to name a few. I love it so much that in college I created my own major, Technocultural Studies, so I could be vaguely academic about it.
By trade I’m an interaction and interface designer who is deeply interested in empathy, interactions, systems, networks, time, cities, play, and sustainability.
Currently I’m living in New York City with the husband-boy and a smattering of plants.
I work with an awesome team of hooligans over at SimpleReach, where we are building a new measurement layer for the social web. Previously I worked with the very fine folks at NabeWise (aquired by Airbnb in 2012) and Eastmedia.
Interaction Design Association (IxDA), New York Chapter. The IxDA is a global network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design. With the help of more than 20,000 members since 2004, the IxDA network provides an online forum for the discussion of interaction design issues and other opportunities and platforms for people who are passionate about interaction design to gather and advance the discipline.
Product Design Guild, New York Branch. We hold monthly events where designers bring in the work they're doing in their everyday jobs and help each other out. It is a place where you can brainstorm ideas, receive informed critique, learn new techniques and all the other activities that are only possible in a group environment.
This site is powered by Jekyll, SASS, Ruby, Typekit, and Textmate Sublime Text. Domain registration by Pairnic and hosted on Github.
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