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Friday roundup: The Lab’s must-reads/views/listens/plays/thinks

Each week at the Lab, we eat lunch together: professional developers, designers, faculty, and students from all over the university. It’s…

1 min readSep 23, 2016

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Why your toolkit may be better off with a hatchet than a corn kernel remover

In Werner Herzog’s 2013 film Happy People, a fur trapper lives happily (for the most part) for a year in one of the coldest, remotest…

4 min readSep 6, 2016

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Why your toolkit may be better off with a hatchet than a corn kernel remover

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Our Favorite Tools for User Research

A growing list of awesome tools for user-centered design.

4 min readAug 18, 2016

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Why Creators Should Love Instagram’s Rip-off of Stories

Instagram vs. Snapchat, who cares? We all win.

3 min readAug 11, 2016

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Why Creators Should Love Instagram’s Rip-off of Stories

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How to Fail Intelligently

Failing Successfully: A Guide

5 min readAug 4, 2016

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How to Fail Intelligently

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The Tools Powering Celebrity Feuds (Kimye vs. TSwift Edition)

Let’s talk about one of the greatest celebrity feuds of all time and what it tells us about platforms.

5 min readJul 21, 2016

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The Tools Powering Celebrity Feuds (Kimye vs. TSwift Edition)

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The Knight Lab’s Favorite Newsletters (A Growing List)

In Issue #6 of The Shed — our newsletter about the tools we use to tell stories — we went meta and wrote about newsletters.

5 min readJul 14, 2016

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7 Questions To Test Your Understanding Of News Habits

How well do you understand how people consume news and what does that say about the tools we use to tell stories?

7 min readJun 30, 2016

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What We (Don’t Learn) From Google Analytics

Below is an excerpt from our weekly newsletter — The Shed (← Subscribe via TinyLetter) — that discusses the tools we use to tell stories…

3 min readJun 17, 2016

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What We (Don’t Learn) From Google Analytics

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Knight Lab tools now embeddable on Medium

Three of Knight Lab’s most popular tools — TimelineJS, StoryMapJS, and JuxtaposeJS — can now be embedded directly into your Medium posts.

2 min readJun 16, 2016

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Northwestern University Knight Lab accelerates media innovation through exploration, experimentation and education. Check our publications for recent stories.

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