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As we face a climate crisis, Indigenous environmental activists like Jamie Graham-Blair are highlighting how traditional custodians have always protected country.

Principles, goals, and heuristics are mostly formed of adjectives. Pick ones that will best evaluate the fitness of your product.

From insights to influence A few years ago, the User Experience Research team at Uber was asked to help Product teams to “think big”…

From moonshot thinking to the power of listening, members of Google’s speculative design teams discuss how they’re rehearsing for what’s next.

Research is all about learning. Your goals should reflect that.

And don’t worry, I don’t have a high budget

One of the key ingredients to successful user recruitment is to define the recruitment brief effectively beforehand.

Writing a cold recruitment email is tough, but with this template and the strategies we review in this post, your research will be a…

A research tool for conscientious creatives

You might be thinking “Oh!, yet another ops?”. Industries and organisations had just started to unravel design’s potential in reshaping…

Here are six types from the business model angle.

Why this Yale psychologist thinks you should be compassionate, not empathetic.

Can uncertainty simultaneously be something to be regulated and feared, as well as a postive and creative resource? This academic paper challenges myths and narratives around certainty in the legal pr…

The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) is committed to furthering self determination through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led innovation.

I have chosen Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay “Returning the Gift” as my selection to this issue of Minding Nature. The past year has been full of loss, learning, and love, and throughout … Returning the Gift, 2021 Read More »

This is an outline of how each piece in the "most important century series relates to the overall argument. I think it's useful to read through this before reading through the series, to get a sense of where each piece fits in. Today’s world Transformative AI World of

When a social justice movement begins to go mainstream and become institutionalized, it then becomes extremely vulnerable to co-option. One…

Companies are opting for shorter weeks. But without worker power, they’re just another employer perk.

During my school holidays as a teenager in the 90s, I used to love watching re-runs of the old BBC sitcom ‘The Good Life’ on daytime TV. If you haven't seen it, the main character is a chap called Tom who worked as a draughtsman in an engineering company. Disillusioned with the drudgery of corporate life, he one day has an epiphany of how to escape the rat race. He excitedly runs home to his wife and announces his idea - “Self-sufficiency, Barbara!”

My clinical work has shown me that happiness is a ghost that’s not worth pursuing – there are far wiser goals in life

In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?

This paper contributes by clearly identifying the shortcoming of design thinking as well as pinpointing where to begin in terms of achieving a more solid conceptualization of the concept. To identi...

Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.

Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.

Want to see how popular web apps handle their signup experiences? Let's deconstruct their user onboarding flows one screen at a time.

Beyond the headphones.

How becoming a person of place will sustain you in a warming world