 Hi, I'm Katie Corbin and I'm a Door Hardware Nerd. I am the Learning Design Manager for the EMS Group in Phoenix, Arizona. You may be thinking, what does that mean? Learning design? What is that? I like to say that learning design is both an art and a science. I'm analyzing gaps in knowledge, performance and skills to determine if training is part of the solution. I'm also collaborating with subject matter experts to identify what learners need to know to fill those gaps. I'm also designing and developing training content in the form of videos, e-learning modules, virtual and in-person instructor-led training content. Really the possibilities are endless. But at the end of the day, I'm just Katie, your friendly neighborhood training lady. Oh my goodness, there are so many things that could qualify me to be a Door Hardware Nerd. I do take a lot of pictures of doors and door hardware. We use a lot of pictures to create scenarios and different problem-solving types of exercises in our training. So oftentimes the more unique or the uglier something is, the better. It really gets our learners thinking and oftentimes thinking outside the box for a solution. But anytime I'm at a restaurant or I'm out shopping, I'm always on the lookout for, like I said, the good, the bad, the ugly, the unique openings. It's kind of become a game at this point. It really didn't take me too long to become a Door Hardware Nerd, maybe a couple of months. And it just kind of snuck up on me one day. And that's when I really started to realize that I was paying attention to the brands and the different types of hardware that are on these openings and thinking about codes and building occupancies and all of those sorts of things. And it's almost like you are now viewing the world through a filter or a different lens where you're noticing things that you never really noticed before, but then you realize it's everywhere. So this is a good story and it features my grandma. So my 94-year-old grandma lives in a retirement community. And when she first moved in and got settled, she wanted to show me around, give me a little tour of her new home. And as we're walking around to the library, to the activity room, out to the pool, I start pointing out different types of hardware, exit devices, the fire-rating placards on the doors, the gate latch leading out to the pool. And it all happened to be Ossoblei products, by the way. So we're taking our little tour and I'm doing my show and tell. But I started to notice that I was gaining a little bit of an audience from some of the other residents. So that was a really fun day. For all of the non-nerds out there, it's okay not to notice the door hardware that you interact with in your everyday life. As manufacturers, though, who are providing solutions, that really should be one of our goals anyway, to make life easier for people without them really noticing. Plus, as a non-nerd, you will free up a lot of storage on your phone from all of the door hardware pictures you are not taking.