In the course of developing Campus Arrival, a WordPress site that provides school-specific packing lists, we added a feature to suggest nearby universities. When viewing a school's checklist, this feature displays other, nearby colleges. When viewing the front page, it suggests colleges near the visitor's own location. For example, check out the suggestions for MIT,| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
Since May, our research group has been developing a new tool called Snowball. As with our other tools, the purpose of Snowball is to empower people from all sorts of backgrounds to express and create — tell their stories — on the web. We chose to implement Snowball as a WordPress plugin because WordPress users represent| Thomas Park