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Aug 18, 2016

Our Favorite Tools for User Research

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

Before building anything, it’s critical to understand the the story behind the product: who you’re making it for, why they need it, how they’ll…

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Knight Lab in The Shed

Jun 16, 2016

Analytics Tools We Are Watching

We are keeping our 👀 out for new analytics tools designed to help storytellers better make sense of their data. Please don’t view this as an exhaustive list since we are focusing on more recently released tools that are closer to the prototype phase as opposed to a…

Knight Lab in The Shed

Jul 14, 2016

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.

We wanted to bring to light some of the amazing recommendations people sent our way…

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Knight Lab in The Shed

Aug 4, 2016

How to Fail Intelligently

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 stretches of Siberia. He goes into the bush for the trapping…