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The Rise and Fall of the Product Dictator

Why product dictators are having their day, why it’s a…

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You’re Not Managing Enough

Management is an active sport. Hands off is bad, micro-management is worse…

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User-Centered Performance (and How to Stop It)

How to identify and crush user-centered performance…

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A Bright Future for UX Research

2024 and beyond looks bright for UX Research, but to get there we’ll…

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How to Be a Leader-Researcher in 2024

Find your researcher mindset and the humble learner vibe to be a…

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Leaders Need Less Vision, Not More

The focus on vision is misguided. It’s not what makes leaders great…

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Leadership is a Research Project

The best leaders are tireless investigators of the humans around…

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Decoding the Latest Facebook Studies

Last week a new batch of large-scale Facebook experiments was published in top academic…

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Stay Out of the Uncanny Valley

Avoiding things that are almost but not quite the same will guide you…

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How to Say No

Saying no is scary, but if you do it well a no can feel like a yes. Here’s three simple…

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