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I assume therefore I am (human) By Pati Anderson I am a small person. Not just the below-average-height "cute" kind of small. I am the disarmingly, double-take inducing, offered-a-kids-menu-while-visibly-pregnant kind of small. While I firmly deny the existence of any grey hairs (they're just really blond), I do not entertain any sort of notion that my face is that of a 16 year old anymore. Yet, I get mistaken for one all the time. As a teenager I used to change the way I dressed and did my makeup, even the way I held myself and spoke, to try to mitigate being mistaken for a child. Eventually I accepted the fact that it wasn’t those details that people noticed when making assumptions about my age - it was much simpler and much more out of my control than that. I am small. Children are small. The thing about being quite different from the norm in some way is that you get to witness people making false assumptions and acting off their "first impressions" in pe

March Happy Birthday, Mela!  What drew you to human factors and what drew you to Core? Core's understanding of usability and its culture which encourages collaboration. What is one fun fact about yourself? In 2018 I spent the holiday break or the time in between Christmas and New Years backpacking through Vienna, Prague, Milan and Como. I had never spent the holidays away from my family before but I had so much fun meeting new people and reconnecting with friends along the way. What is your educational or professional background and how does it relate to your everyday job at Core? My undergraduate degree was in Public Relations. In this degree program I found myself most interested in classes focused on communication and sociological research but ultimately I did not have a career path mapped out or that I wanted to pursue. When I graduated I accepted a role in User Experience where I analyzed sets of qualitative data from customer surveys, usability tests an