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The honor excellence in innovation, ingenuity, and technical achievement in app and game design. Streaming is available in most browsers, and in the app.

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These questions try to stay away from directly asking candidates to recite specifications, or rattle off screen reader hot keys. Those can easily be looked up on the job.

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I’ve been writing on Medium for three and a half years. In that time, I’ve written somewhere north of 100,000 words, in more than 50 long-form essays, read by many tens of thousands of people.

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There are two things that are always in short supply on any project; time and money. The Pareto Principle can, in the long-term, help you save both. It can also help you make intelligent decisions based on your user research.

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I teach two courses at Northwestern University. I want to share a little bit more about the work that I am doing there as I think it’s relevant for people working at companies who are starting to adopt continuous discovery practices (in other words, many of you).

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14 min read Mobile, Web Design Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Earn Your Master’s Degree Online As attention spans shorten and visitors just want to get to the good stuff on a website, designers have to get more creative in how they communicate their website’s “story.

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When it comes to delegating, invite your team into both the thinking and the doing. Do you consider yourself “a doer”? That person who enjoys doing the work, fine-tuning the details, meddling in the weeds of how it’ll all work? Then you probably have trouble delegating as a leader.

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When testing new apps or Web sites, we can trace many usability problems to the system behavior’s not matching the user’s mental model.

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Digital-product teams often overestimate the technical abilities and information-seeking skills of their users. In 2016, the OECD found that only one third of adults could successfully complete medium-complexity tasks.

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When building a mobile app, there comes a time when you have to decide whether to use solid or outline icons. Which style is better for user experience?

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Usability testing with a small number of participants is an incredibly efficient way to improve an interface. By observing real people attempt to use a design, we see the interface from the users’ perspective.

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Assumed Audience — People interested in the open Web as a platform. Ten years ago, we needed Google Chrome to break the Web free from corporate hegemony, and we managed to do so for a brief period. Today, its dominance is stifling the very platform it once saved from the clutches of Microsoft.

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My story of discovering, first-hand, how important psychological safety is to teams pinning their innovation hopes on frameworks like design thinking. The author, Brené Brown, was reciting a thought she always imparts to the leadership teams she coaches at the very start of their engagements.

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When given the choice between an accessible bathroom or a non-accessible one, many people would pick the accessible one: there’s more space, it’s more comfortable, it’s a no-brainer. Digital products are the same.

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Please note: This article is ready, and will go live when it hits its publish time. As a child of the ’90s, one of my favorite movie quotes is from : “there are as many ways to live as there are people in this world, and each one deserves a closer look.