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Dustin Larimer in Early Writing

Life Advice about Sketching

It is the sum of all lines that makes a drawing.

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New Research Project: Founders

“Tell me about your customers.”

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Introducing IDEAVIS

Last summer I kicked off a new project called IDEAVIS, a visualization tool built for design researchers and ethnographers…

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Heroku DataClips + D3.js

Here’s a fun demo of how to use D3.js with Heroku DataClips:

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Do The Model Mash: Frankenstein Visuals for On-Demand Insights

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Edward de Bono
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Visual Dialogues with Farmers

Our field is full of tools and techniques for planning and executing contextual research projects, but the truth is sometimes you just have to make it all up as you go. I ran into this during a project while interviewing local farmers in Savannah. I wanted to understand how…

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Designing for Design

I stumbled onto this recently and got really excited. Mohionote is a prototype from a group of students at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. It builds a graph visualization of notes and tags from an Evernote notebook. I’ve been looking for something like it and even considered…

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Storyboarding with Startups: Stolen Cars, Saucy Affairs, and Italian Translators

Over the past few years we’ve had opportunities to work with many amazing startups, from one coast to the other and everywhere in between, but some of the most exciting (ambitious!) new…

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Quick and Dirty: Hi-fi Learning Loops with Low-fi Prototypes

Rapid prototyping isn’t about validating…
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The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What We Can Learn About Ourselves from Our Machines

In The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, Stanford professor, sociologist and HCI researcher Clifford Nass shares dozens of eye-opening discoveries about human nature and sociality. This book is…

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