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Nine little books filled with big ideas: quick to read, big on value, and evergreen to read again and again.

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Facilitation pro tips: Rules for sketching on whiteboards and flipcharts
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If you're drawing on a whiteboard or flip chart in front of a group, keep these tips in mind.

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UX Strategy – Defining Strategy: Current States, and Future States
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UX Strategy – Defining Strategy: Current States, and Future States
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Hack your own approach to UX strategy. It’s not the blueprint, canvas, or diagram you use. It’s the conversations you have and the alignment you achieve.

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Clients from hell
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UX isn't about answers. It's about the right questions. When someone suggests you're an impostor, look for the right question.

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Crafting the discovery phrase, Dan Brown at the 2016 IA Summit
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Crafting the discovery phrase, Dan Brown at the 2016 IA Summit
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Dan Brown on how to choose the right methods to craft your discovery phase (from the 2016 IA Summit).

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Seven books that will improve your UX and strategy workshops
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Seven books that will improve your UX and strategy workshops
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These books will help you shift to collaborative design and guide you to plan and facilitate successful UX and strategy workshops.

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Why UX workshops rock: comparing UX discovery methods
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Kickoff projects right by choosing the discovery method that fits your team resources and supports your project goals for optimization or innovation. 

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Be more productive by doing nothing
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Be more productive by doing nothing
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Sometimes its better to let things lie until you're sure you’re approaching the issue with a clear head and vision.

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Work Principles for the Design Age
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Work Principles for the Design Age
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In the Design Age where teams create products faster than they can think, it's the team adopt new ways of working. 

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The horror that lurks within the Internet of Things
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That the Internet of Things, a thousand enchanted objects, would unleash a thousand tiny horrors isn't so far-fetched.

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Information Architecture for Lean and Agile Projects
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Information Architecture for Lean and Agile Projects
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Information architecture helps avoid waste and capture maximum value earlier in the development and test process. Agile and lean teams should always begin projects with information architecture for any project that will run eight weeks or longer.

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Information architecture’s place in the design and development process
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Information architecture’s place in the design and development process
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Ultimately, not every project needs information architecture. Or design. How well you understand the problem and the solution, as well as how that understanding changes, determines whether or not you need architecture, design, development, or testing.

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