Thoughts

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Innovation Without Fragmentation

A practical guide for designers and engineers to building better products together, without compromising coherence

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Start Small, Start Now: Building a Usability Testing Process

How I helped build a usability culture from scratch and why you can too

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Designing Meaning

How UX designers shape the human experience of technology and why that matters more than ever

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Are Designers Authors?

Why UX/UI work is authored, even when no name is attached

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What Science Communication Can Teach UX Designers

And why data and charts aren't as neutral as we think

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The Cost of Poor Information Design

What clinical research questionnaires reveal about the impact of poor design on data accuracy

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