Shelly Ni is working on:

truangles : > A Bangladeshi girl hangs on to the side of a train, taken by Tab > Tuhin in 2008

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“ What do we call it when people in low-income communities ask questions, participate in decisions and hold decision-makers accountable in their ordinary encounters with public and publicly-fu...

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The third iteration of the Social Security Card guide I’ve been working on. Download the full PDF here !  Features I introduced: A name!  Get Set #1 is for social security guides. Get Set...

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“Maybe it would be easier to navigate the dissolving boundaries between public and private spaces if we all had a variety of names with which to signal the aspects of ourselves currently on dis...

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Mapping out the shortest and longest paths to getting a social security card. INSIGHTS:  For US citizens, the shortest amount of time to get a social security card is 1-2 days. This is if you ...

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The Real Job Killers : robertreich : > House Speaker John Boehner says >  > raising the minimum wage is “bad policy” because it will cause > job losses.  >  > The U...

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othercentric : > fuckyeahchinesefashion > : >  >  >>  《 男人装 COLLECTION 》  >>   >>  形象编辑：陈力铭  摄影：小刚  化妆：团团 >>  发型：张骁 ...

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A BRIEF FIELD TRIP INTO THE FUTURE OF IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS Top and middle photo: US soldiers in Afghanistan scanning the irises and fingerprints of Afghan civilians. See: neo-colonialism . Se...

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blackhistoryalbum : > AQUAMAN | MIAMI 1961  >  >  Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad > Ali) photographed by Flip Schulke during one his “secret” > underwater trai...

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Hunger Through My Lens is a community art project that asked 15 women who use food stamps in Denver, Colorado to chronicle their experience of being hungry in America with digital cameras. The w...

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The landscape, as I have discovered so far, of organizations that provide information and guidance through government identification processes.

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Thesis context, or, photos from my wild goose chase across Brooklyn, when Kia (another volunteer at Reconnect), T.I. (a Reconnect crew member), and I quested in vain for a replacement social secu...

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“yo dawg, i heard you like carrying hearts so i’m carrying your heart in my heart so you can carry my heart while i carry it.” - EE CUMMINGS (via johnisdead )

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The current state of my thesis google calendar. To hold myself accountable to my inscrutable calendar to-do’s, so that I can build and test aspects of my next prototype by next Monday 2/17, ...

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My next prototype will be print guides and SMS-based reminders for Reconnect volunteers and crew members to use to navigate the process of getting government identification. Sketched out on the l...

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Things teenage dudes from Bed-Stuy want, plus possible means to access them.

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Following up with thesis advice from Jerri Chou yesterday, today I sat down and sketched different identities Reconnect crew members have, and measurable or tangible characteristics that define e...

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As my fellow IXDers Pam and Beth uncovered last year for their Wayfind concept , figuring out international visa requirements is just as horrible as figuring out state ID requirements.   Have ...

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Using Freytag’s Triangle to plot the user experience arc of my thesis, if it were a service that guides people through the process of getting government documents.

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This week, I’m focusing on designing a service that helps people navigate the byzantine system of getting state-issued ID documents (photo IDs, birth certificates, and social security cards), i...

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