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Nice summary of a favorite technique for getting past the internal barriers to user-centered experience.
https://youtu.be/TbEfjaE94sU

Card Sorting: How to Best Organize Product Offerings Card sorting helps you understand how to organize offerings so people who know what you have and where to find it. Even afternoon tea requires...

User experience design means talking to actual users. https://twitter.com/JillianDavid13/status/881844097505538048

Jillian David on Twitter “Focus group. This could have been avoided with 1 focus group (of women).”

UX Design Thinking From A Senior Citizen’s Perspective - Usability Geek Just like any usergroup, senior citizens, require design experiences that reflect their needs, particularly to overcome limitations that can come with age

Console usability . . .

Few years later it would be just a half inch thick holographic monitor plus voice command and has an interactive AI. SciFi will be a reality soon

My special gift is being on the cutting edge of the next big hotness. http://ow.ly/10xyWL

Why Storytelling Will Be the Biggest Business Skill of the Next 5 Years No one cares about your marketing goals. But everyone likes a good story.

Well, golly. Who knew?

The Presidents of the United States: When They Were Young and Hunky If there’s one thing that everyone agrees is attractive, it’s young men. Unfortunately, young men are so obnoxious that no one can bear to spend time in their company. That’s why our best bet is to...

Paris, in color, over 100 years ago.

Rare Color Photos Reveal Life In Paris In 1914 In 1903, the Lumiere brothers from France patented the first color photography process known as Autochrome Lumiere. Despite the availability of this technology, most people continued taking photos in black and white. In 1909, a wealthy French banker by the name Albert Kahn decided he was sic...

Postmaster ransom demands apparently didn't work too well . . .

This Rediscovered Leather Trunk Contains Thousands of Letters From the 17th Century The 300-year-old linen-lined trunk is filled with over 2,600 letters that were mailed out—but never received—between the years 1680 and 1706. Historians are now taking a closer look.

Wow

Yale Just Released 170,000 Incredible Photos of Depression-Era America The photos taken by Farm Security Administration photographers in the 1930s are some of the most iconic images in American history. We’re all familiar with some of the snapshots of craggy-faced farmers, but unseen photos in government archives tell a more complex story of a struggling country. Yale…

Storytelling matters. And always has . . .

Revealed: how Indigenous Australian storytelling accurately records sea level rises 7000 years ago | Australia news | The Guardian Distinctive ‘cross-checking’ tradition helps explain extraordinary accuracy in 21 stories about dramatic sea level rises between 7,000 and 18,000 years ago

Cue the suspenseful music . . .

A Storm Knocked This Tree Over, And A Skeleton Was Found Hanging From The Roots The inhabitants of Collooney – a small town in Northern Ireland – made a shocking discovery after a violent storm ripped through the area. A 200-year-old beech tree toppled over, revealing what could be a medieval murder scene. While it’s not uncommon for storms to uproot trees, it’s not every day o…

The mysterious language no one can decipher helps with the cool factor of the whole story.

This Wooden Carving Is Twice As Old As The Pyramids A mysterious wooden statue, extracted from a peat bog in Eastern Russia in the 19th century, has been dated back 11,000 years by a team of German scientists this week, making what was already the world’s oldest wooden carving even older.