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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

An American Geophysicist, Cox and his colleagues were instrumental in developing a way to measure the changes in the Earth’s magnetic alignment and the geomagnetic polarity time scale. She worked at MIT, IBM, Xerox PARC and DARPA and invented dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools.

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Innovate and Persuade with a Well-Judged Nudge

Destination Innovation

Changing the default position – e.g. so that everyone is enrolled into a pension scheme unless they deliberately opt out. The concept was popularised in the influential book, Nudge, by economists, Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, published in 2008. Showing peer reviews e.g. for companies, products, hotels or restaurants.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

In 2008, Lloyds Pharmacy conducted 20 minute interviews 1 with 1,961 UK adults. Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Possible Design Improvements. Possible Design Improvements. If it works poorly, it can lead to adverse side effects, harm, or even death.

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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

Now the time has come for us—designers, working on digital products—to step up our game and act like real gatekeepers. We have a huge responsibility here as designers. It’s up to us how we design these platforms and what social norms we set there. helps designers to craft useful feedback to each other. Source: uxfol.io.

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Designing for Social Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Let’s look at each type of tie, and how we might design for them. 9 So, when we’re designing for strong ties, we’re designing for small groups of people. Some people believe that this is changing, that the web is making us closer to more people. Think of the people in your life.

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IDEA 2008

Boxes and Arrows

The speakers pushed the boundaries of what it means to design complex information spaces of all kinds. This conference addressed issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Aradhana Goel , the Service Design Strategist at IDEO , discusses connections between these emerging trends, design thinking, and service innovation.

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What UX Designers Need to Know about Conversion Rate Optimization

Boxes and Arrows

The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. Content goals are business goals.

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