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20 Essential Architecture and Design Lectures to Catch During Fall/Winter 2023

Azure Magazine

The best architecture and design lectures of the fall 2023 semester – including talks by Jeanne Gang, Charles Waldheim and Xu Tiantian – bring us back to school and work with more inspiration than ever. For additional architecture and design lectures and other happenings, visit azuremagazine.com/events. Photo by Iwan Baan.

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The waves of research practice

UX Collective

My Director of Product Management handed me Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany (2005) in 2011 as the bible for customer work — customer discovery, customer validation, customer creation, customer building. Originally published at [link] on February 14, 2023. Rigor didn’t matter so much as contact and baseline exposure to context.

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A creative’s guide on starting a company

UX Collective

I met him and his partner John Boiler first at a meeting for Xbox, a client his agency 72andsunny and AKQA that I was working for shared from 2005 or 2006 for multiple years. An industrial designer by trade, he spoke so eloquently in meetings about design, strategy, and business and I was always in awe.

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2024: Is it liminal yet?

UX Collective

Let’s start with the letter — Dear Editor, The aggregate Wired list of suggested purchases for the end of 2023 is cause for both pause and reflection. Award-winning film-director, writer and consultant working with media and technology companies on liminal design strategy, narrative and product development.