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The quest to know a whole lot of stuff.

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Key Takeaway: Just a handy vine snapshot for clients who want to know what's what on Vine at the moment

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Key Takeaway: This really is design for good. No flashy styling, coalface tech or laboured illustration. Just a clean, usable space with visual appeal and shortest paths between A and B.

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Key takeaway: highlights the power of centralising data through a beautiful case study. Connect your dots!

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Key takeaway: pixel-perfect summary of everything we neglect to do when we rely on wireframes. They're outmoded, overused and misunderstood.

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Key Takeaway: this insightful article resonates with what I wish we were doing now in agencies. Feels more like wishful thinking than a prediction, but I'm wishing just the same.

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Key takeaway: Handy reference when explaining UX things to noobs, or just as a refresher.

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Key Takeaway: There is a wealth of proactive opportunity lying in APIs we just don't know about. Any suggestions for interesting APIs like these available for marketing / digital tool purposes?

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Prediction: While lots of cash to get wasted in 2013 on beautiful and funny social campaigns that nobody really cares about, look for emerging brand voices that understand this truth.

Why 2013 Will Look Like 1613, And What It Means For Marketing - Forbes

Key takeaway: Thought-provoking, if not depressing, piece on 2013's bleak outlook considering the abundance of wanky marketing.

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Key Takeaway: Rational != boring

These are the things:

You start questioning conventions

Your values will change

You will be able to differentiate more between words and intentions, discern reasons behind actions

You will slow down, talk less, take time out and eliminate activities that don't make sense.

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(via 'Why Apple Consumers Are Turning to Customer Communities for Their Answers' )

Key Takeaway: Perhaps the best way to handle customer service? Create a platform for customers to help each other. Stuff like this makes me think humans are essentially good. If only for a moment.

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I have no illusions and feel entirely comfortable with the idea that fairness has origins in baser emotions like envy. But most egalitarians will find this repugnant, and damaging to their saintly and selfless version of fairness.

In Defense of Favoritism - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

Great read on why favouritism is the fairest of them all.

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Tetris holds our attention by continually creating unfinished tasks.

BBC - Future - Health - The psychology of Tetris

Key Takeaway: A to-do list where everything has been done is simultaneously satisfying and responsible for intense emptiness. (That's why I prefer mine infinite)

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Key Takeaway: This article should be called "Why digital agencies' flaws are their strengths", flaws in this sense meaning the production house mentality and rapid prototyping.

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(via Nederburg The Heritage Heroes)

Key Takeaway: Print can be so evocative. That is all. And that is enough.

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Key Takeaway: Looks like it has such great potential, but also like no one interrogated this idea and that it was rapidly prototyped soon after inception. Hope I'm proven wrong on this one.

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(via Ireland/Davenport Habitat for Humanity Doll House)

Key Takeaway: lovely use of digital integration on a product traditionally relegated to print: the annual report.

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Key Takeaway: Smug little me says "we already do all this stuff". But a useful reminder when you can't see the wood for the trees, and handy for noobs.