Vancouver Pixel Crafters
The technology community in Vancouver is awesome. Celebrate it. Share it. Bitch about it. Haters gonna hate, let's give them something to talk about.
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borismann Boris Mann's Link Blog -
mcelroy McElroy Flavelle -
kaler Phablet Murse -
maurar Maura Rodgers -
overfunador The Funador -
sillygwailo sillygwailo -
terakristen Tera Kristen!
Web: http://courtney-mitchell.com
Twitter: @cmmitchell27
Work: Fitmapped.com and Pawtrackr.com
What do you do?
UX Lead/Product Manager for a Startup (Fitmapped.com)
Where did you go to school?
University of Washington (B.S. Applied Math), NYU (M.S. Interactive Telecommunications)
Looking or Hiring?
Looking
Beer or Wine?
Wine
Where are you from?
Seattle, currently living in NYC, relocating to Vancouver within the next year
How did you come to Vancouver?
I grew up visiting Vancouver often to see family, and I have always wanted to live there.
Interesting Vancouver restaurant?
Steamworks (I worked there)
Interesting Vancouver store?
Don’t know - somebody give me one!
What did you do previously?
Dancer, Math Geek, Fitness Instructor
Favourite Vancouver Activity:
Running the Seawall, swimming in the ocean, fish and chips on the beach at English Bay, summer Fireworks
Why are you here?
I love Vancouver and have always wanted to live there. I’m here at Pixel Crafters because I’m hoping to make some connections in the world of design + tech in Vancouver as I will need a job in order to move there!
It’s always annoyed me that Google Calendar only allows you to enter appointments on the hour and half hour increments, unless you dive deep and open the full appointment creation screen.
Turns out I was wrong.
When using the quick-create pop up for creating a calendar appointment, all you have to is type “@ 11:45” into the appointment title (or any other time of course) and the appointment widget adjusts to the right spot in your calendar view.
It’s a nice little trick you don’t need to teach a new user but will delight an experienced user when they find it, or could easily be discovered if somebody took the time to look it up in Help.
It’s the little things that make software nice to use.
