ANIMATED CHAOS
On the eve of June 6, I ordered sushi. I deserved it. I was about to get a year older. Quarter of a century - that's a landmark to celebrate, they said. So I did. I ordered three sets of sushi from my favourite sushi place downtown. They don't deliver to where I live, but … Continue reading Best birthday ever
Kui kunstisaalis käisin viimati ma võõras linnas,siis rahva hulgas märkasin üht halli peaga memme.Picasso maali ees ta üksi seisis pikalt-pikalt,imetledes pintslitõmbeid tehtud ammu enne Tasakesi lähemale hiilis taadikene,kaenlas kandes tooli, millel puhata saaks jalga.Käe ta vaikselt tasahilju ümber mässis memmelTeineteisel toetudes nad seisid. Ma ei salga, süda sees mul härdaks kiskus, pisar tuli silma,vaadates kaht … Continue reading Lebensgefährte
Nägin unes, et posu pakse kodurotte oli tuulutusrežiimil oleva akna kaudu mu üürikorterisse roninud. Neid oli julgelt vähemalt kümmekond, vahest isegi paarkümmend. Istusivad nemad ilusti minu kodukontori töölaua all minu isikliku rotipuuri peal ja sees. Olid teised üsna kopsakad ja ilmselgelt hea toidu peal olnud. Ega vist pealinnas prügipuuduse üle kurta saagi. Ilmselgelt olid nad … Continue reading Selgeltnägijate uneproov
I saw you sitting in the corner today, panting, smiling, and looking at me. I read somewhere that dogs do not smile naturally. It's a skill only some of you adopt by observing us, humans. You seem to have picked it up, too. Little do you know what effect it has on people. I saw … Continue reading To Leo
Essay from April 2015 submitted to a competition by Metsaülikool and published in a collection of articles in 2020. Essee kirjutamise ajal oli Eva Maria Veitmaa Saaremaa Ühisgümnaasiumi 12. klassi õpilane. Tema essee pälvis Metsaülikooli koolinoorte esseekonkursil kolmanda koha.Tänaseks on Eva pühendunud inimese ja tehnoloogia vahelise suhtluse uurimisele. Tema eesmärgiks on luua lahendusi, mis on … Continue reading Ülestunnistus
Test task for UI/UX designer at Nortal Design user interfaces for an Electronic Medical Records system: login and dashboard views. UI must include certain elements brought out in the task description. Terminology (from healthit.gov) Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Digital versions of paper charts at medical institutions. EMRs contain information collected by a single medical institution. … Continue reading The future of the Electronic Medical Record
Yesterday, I went to buy myself some new glasses. My previous ones had slid off the motorcycle when I was taking off my helmet and landed right underneath my partner's foot. Classic communication error combined with some bad luck. The back-up ones I have been wearing as a temporary replacement are several years old and … Continue reading Dare to adopt a new perspective
Only a few things are better than sitting alone on my bed in front of an open window in my tiny studio in Amsterdam, watching the sun set behind the railway and a countless number of aeroplanes descend behind the three wind turbines, listening to crickets singing outside. These are moments of peace, serenity, and … Continue reading I’m coming home
It was a splendid morning in the Netherlands. The weather was nice. The sun was shining. Around 8 a.m., Eva was stretching her sleepy limbs. She heard people unlocking their bikes, seagulls fighting over garbage, and trains riding off to who-knows-where. A gentle wind squeezing in through the half-open window was caressing her forehead. She … Continue reading How violence is sometimes the correct answer
Surveys are a tricky data collection method. On the one hand, they enable reaching thousands of people and gathering a magnitude of data in a short timeframe. On the other hand, they rarely capture the information they ought to. The reason for that is often bad design. Survey design is no joke. A fool can ask … Continue reading Welcome to every researcher’s worst nightmare