Women in standards engineering and the building sciences whose investment into me changed my life forever (thank you):

Leann Cicco

Judy Halchin

Maureen Keating

Jennifer Deming

Jennifer Roybal

Karen Anderson

Women in standards engineering and the building sciences whose investment into me changed my life forever (thank you):

Mary Beth Picone

Debra Amerally

Gail Johnson

Karen Pataria

Pam Johnson

Tanya Washburn

Tammy Abraham

Elizabeth d’Errico

Sue Bartalo

Rachel Powers

Lan Chi-Lam

Sandy Bozek

Danika Laszuk

Sara Brant

Rieko Noland

Eve Medina

Thuy-An Julien

Alexandrea Anderson

Jill Harwell

Keara Fallon

Alyce Lindquist

Debbie Shimizu

Tracy Pirnack

Catherine Cook

Carolyne LaSala

Abigail Sarah Brody

Judy Halchin

The definition of an Apple family means you don’t inherit security definitions for Apple families from non-Apple families or non-Apple security teams.

If it were up to the the police force working in cooperation with @Microsoft's @datasecurity team: Government data classes would have a direct link to your library directory for all of your photos so they could search your house, your files and your family without a warrant.

If it were up to us, learning to code would be a prerequisite to a preschool education.

You matter.

Is this US Treasury job from 2009 still available?

(I have some experience protecting treasuries from being depleted by terrorists but I'm going to need a team to back me up.)

This may come as bad news to some but the knowledge of how to shutdown a chain the size of @blockbuster with more democratized and accessible device content experiences will always reign supreme over the ability to fill a server's resources with inefficient @Bitcoin and @crypto mining processes.

I know how to build a standards compliant Apple that builds stronger hardware relationships between countries (& by doing so building stronger alliances between countries) than it does pour its engineering and hardware budgets into production security for blockbuster, Independent films & TV series.

Are designers at Apple still allowed to be anti-corporate, or is that frowned upon now?

A post-Steve Apple would definitely be inhospitable to real designers

IBM’s involvement in the holocaust was published in 2001 by Edwin Black well after this shot was taken. (Just one more thing SJ was right about.)

The problem with the nature of information and the destructive nature of people who worship death and extermination, if you make it public knowledge where to find the keys they need to protect life and the human genome project, we will self-destruct as a species overnight.

Some info just isn’t meant to be publicly shared. Security clearances exist for good reason.

Standards engineers who use building information modeling (BIM) in application development don’t write code that compiles into software applications. We pass laws that compile into hardware building codes and then ship estimates about how that software is going to be used.

Then we compile those estimates into future building laws for the next version of the operating system.

The best engineering managers protect those on their team with unpopular views or wrong beliefs.

I’d take a bullet for any one of these people (any day of the week).

Whatever you choose to do, be the best at whatever it is.

Nobody wants to work with you when you know how to build in public because people immediately assume you are cocky or arrogant even if you genuinely know you can help.

Everyone wants to work with you when you don’t know how to build in public because most founders don’t want their designer to know know how to talk about market laws better than them.

It’s really difficult to explain (in concept) to the unthinking person that when you work in public accessibility you’re working on engineering definitions for the DOJ which change over time as new device applications affect human behavior.

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If you’re designing an app and competing with other apps need to monopolize people’s attention you’ll fall into the trap of filling people’s lives with more digital distraction and they’ll resent you for it.

Don’t build your brand extensions around the need to push notifications at people. Build an experience that will keep people coming back without notifications.

I spent over a year on the streets researching physical accessibility problems in underserved communities to better understand ways that digital accessibility is affecting people with impairments. I'll be writing a lot about this in the coming months.

New article: From Neglect to Nightmare: The Rise of ADA Lawsuits in the Digital Age:

How My Work in Digital Accessibility is Saving Companies from Legal Peril

https://skeuomorphic.design/p/from-neglect-to-nightmare-the-rise

We don’t recognize people in the standards industry for not having the ethos of a designer and the ethos of a woman is much closer to the electricity of an inventor than the ethos of a man.