JESS KLEIN

It's almost a year. A whole year - since the day that my life changed when Hurricane Sandy came and hit my hometown of Rockaway Beach, N...

Have you ever read an article, listened to a podcast or heard a speech that motivated you to perform some kind of action - only to realize t...

" Form follows emotion" - Hartmut Esslinger The design guru behind Frog design, Hartmut Esslinger hacked the design princi...

I have a difficult time claiming to be a designer. I often feel like a fraud. Even at work where I come in on a daily basis and design tools...

For quite some time now we have been talking about the idea of integrating some form of peer assessment and feedback into Webmaker , as a w...

Last week I participated in a workshop for Digital Media and Learning grantees. Everyone at the workshop presented their progress on creatin...

 On the Webmaker community call and on his blog this week, Brett Gaylor presented that we are currently aiming to solve several key design ...

"Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce...

A few weeks back a bunch of us at Mozilla  had a design sprint to begin thinking through what it would mean for someone to come to Webmaker....

Lately I've thinking been about how we can value the craft of webmaking within the context of Webmaker.org. The topic is fresh on my min...

During my day job, I am a designer at Mozilla and I advocate for learning how to understand, contribute and code the web so that you can pro...

  A bunch of my colleagues at Mozilla and I worked with the office of State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder to get up rockawayhelp.com for r...

I really am very upset right now and can't yet put into words what it feels like to see your community taken over by the ocean, so for t...