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Best of (recent) iapresentation

Conference feedback (big and small, it effects us all) My feedback and stuff to learn regarding recent conferences I have attended. Sketchbooks My preferred list of sketchbooks readily available. Pick of the UXLondon Twitter postings What a grid day Watching digital readers β€˜One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that [...]
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Like buying a puff of air

Guest post by Luke Perman Over the past year I have spent much time, and money, building my digital music collection. As I have been buying music on vinyl since 1990, I have had regularly clear outs by using eBay, Discogs and sometimes Amazon to resell old, less played records. Sometimes vinyl that I have [...]
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Suggested reading from The Design Of Everyday Things

Thought it would be useful to put Don Norman’s list of suggested reading from his book The Design Of Everyday Things in a post with links to each book on Amazon (sadly not all the books are readily available but at least one has reference to them and a way of keeping an eye on [...]
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CV format – is it broken? Does it need fixing (UPDATE)

An update to previous article about CVs is that I have updated the CV Grid Template. Download a Omnigraffle Template here now or from Graffletopia
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To portfolio or not to portfolio, that is the question

You apply for a UX job (pretty much same rules apply for UX contract work) and they ask you for some examples of work. What do you do? What do you want to do? Maybe some of your work is NDA’d , maybe some of your work is not live yet but the main reason [...]
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Maslow Quote

“Our inner nature is not strong, like instincts in animals. Rather, it is subtle, delicate, and in many ways weak. It is easily ‘drowned out by learning, by cultural expectations, by fear, by disapproval”
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Advertising Faces/Eyes – a photo set on Flickr

(updated) New idea. Series of close ups of faces that appear on any form of advertising. Efforts will be made to geotag each one (though obviously most types of advertising change) in the effort to build a record across (mainly) Greater London. All photos will be delivered to this set on Flickr. (You can follow [...]
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CV format – is it broken? Does it need fixing

In the last year I have been playing around with my CV frustrated with the standard format. I have tried out various ideas including a persona style and one based on a grid but am still scratching my chin not quite sure if I have solved a problem that as one recruiter recently offered maybe [...]
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Feedback from Interaction Design Studio

Our collective work of ensuring the customer enjoys a great experience through user focused design and practices has come a long way in a few short years. These are unsettled times and though there is still strong demand for our services I see that rates and salaries are down approximately 20% while requirements, especially in [...]
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