Melissa Miranda

Human-centered designer and entrepreneur. Teach @dschool, founder of Backtick.

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

@uripomerantz What a mess. So much potential. Wanna start a new one?

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

It was a pleasure to bring this awesome group from @jasonlearning to my favorite place on earth. Hope you had as much design thinking and design touring as I did.
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#jasonlearning #dschool #stanford… https://t.co/csgBblhZ0P

[Stanford d.school @stanforddschool]

Have you been to a class or workshop lately and felt like a new world unfolded before you? Tessa Forshaw helps us understand that it's a mix of magic AND science that'll get you to create those unforgettable learning experiences. https://t.co/vv6U1F0Ngn

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

@uripomerantz “It’s not always easy” understatement of the century. But the reward has no comparison :)

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

Standing at the top of the Stanford Oval. It’s eerily quiet with classes canceled, and the air is so hazy with smoke particles that you can’t make out the colors of the quad behind me.… https://t.co/eBHI513y85

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

Video recordings of terminal sessions in pure text? YES! https://t.co/OFaD6QgEO5
Discovered on https://t.co/7Eb0CD6BNQ while building a new personal website.

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

So excited to get my hands on this book!

[Stefanie Posavec @stefpos]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉✨our✨new✨book✨is✨finally✨out✨today,✨ HOORAY!✨🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

My and @giorgialupi's new @_deardata journal Observe, Collect, Draw! is officially on sale, so check out your fave local / online bookshops and pick up a copy! 👉https://t.co/MEaQ1Lyzq8 📕🌈📕🌈📕🌈📕🌈📕

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

This book on how to use improv methods in everyday life is a gem. I had put it back on the shelf at @poketo but greatgabsy, who has a sixth sense for design said I had to buy it. The book… https://t.co/17p8vTbkPY

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

I love frameworks so it was awesome to discover this collection of Product frameworks: https://t.co/hC20LSDsp9. The best one is @henrikkniberg unpacking an MVP into 3 different things: minimum TESTABLE product, min USEABLE product, and min LOVABLE product.

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

Is your senator being a decent human being and supporting a bill to not rip children away from their mothers? CHECK. https://t.co/kQ388lkgub

[Senator Dianne Feinstein @SenFeinstein]

UPDATE: 40 senators now support our bill to bar children from being taken from their parents at the border. We’re continuing to ask Republican senators to join our bill. If you’re represented by a Republican senator, please ask them to cosponsor S.3036. #FamiliesBelongTogether

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

Navigating into the ambiguity paper forest.… https://t.co/OeyB9I8BGV

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

All this time I thought I was procrastinating when I was actually embracing ambiguity. https://t.co/Oc7l8958F2

[Stanford d.school @stanforddschool]

Why ambiguity? Ambiguity simultaneously makes creative work extremely challenging to do well, and also leads to the greatest opportunities. What's your experience with it? Complete the metaphor: Ambiguity is like... because…

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

The day you figure out how to code SVG is the… https://t.co/pmgtnSuC7b

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

So true! https://t.co/SvdznxZRCF

[Stefanie Posavec @stefpos]

I drew a '🍭lollipop #chart' to illustrate 'the creative process' for @OFFFest 's #OFFF18 book, showing how on the way to a good idea you inevitably have to suck it up and slog through a lot of 💩💩💩😃

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

8-bit pop singer avatars and an insightful look at why pop hits all sound the same. https://t.co/i5odZdlNSJ

[The Pudding @puddingviz]

New essay: are pop songs becoming more musically homogeneous?https://t.co/49nNK5VDmh

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

Hey PhDs, work with one of the most talented people at the intersection of science and design, the fab @katemaherSE3 ! https://t.co/plWaOvPLhm

[Kate Maher @katemaherSE3]

Help wanted: Seeking adventurous time traveler with mad computational skills. Extensive knowledge and experience in the proper care and feeding of reactive transport models a bonus. PhD required. See attached or https://t.co/47M4FV6BEA

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

Done! Takes a minute to add your comments to ban bump stocks here. https://t.co/lrOoZPjYu4

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

@kathleen_warner Yes! Lots of rest on arrival, it's half as high as planes fly in Cuzco. And eat well! Try MAP (Fancy), Cicciolina, Limo, Inkanto, Baco, Inka Grill, Bodega 138 (pizza). Enjoy :)

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

This is a brilliant data scraping hack https://t.co/AZwOrjazfg

[Dan Quintana @dsquintana]

Every paper has open data if they present a scatterplot.

1) Download WebPlotDigitizer https://t.co/bBtUpduPMQ
2) Load a scatterplot screenshot
3) Select each datapoint
4) Download the .CSV file with each datapoint

[Melissa Miranda @mmiranda]

@dsquintana Love this data scraping hack