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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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Cognitive Dissonance: Why it is so hard to accept two contradictory thoughts

Idea to Value

This may ultimately result in some change in their cognitions or actions to cause greater alignment between them so as to reduce this dissonance. For example, going to the gym if they believe they are getting unhealthy Changing their thoughts: Altering their thoughts to be more in line with what they are doing.

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IDEA 2009 - Day 1

Boxes and Arrows

Listen and learn from experts in a variety of fields as we all continue the exploration of Social Experience Design. But with the rise of social networks, and the integration of community into almost all online experiences, more architecture practices are directly transferable to design. account: iTunes Del.icio.us

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

Subsequently, leaflets are heavily regulated in the way they need to be designed, written, and produced. Adding to the design challenge is the fact that the guidelines for how medicine information leaflets are designed changes from country to country, and the guidelines are often vague. Possible Design Improvements.

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IDEA 2009: An Interview with Thomas Malaby

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2009 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. Certainly, but in a sense any given community changes historically in a unique fashion. We don’t need killer apps, we need killer uses—and those are far harder to anticipate and encourage through design.

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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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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

Here are three reasons why the current poverty fighting model needs to change. This needs to change. This happened to me in 2009 when I co-founded the nonprofit organization, Poverty Stops Here (PSH). A prosperity creating system is designed to transform nonconsumers into consumers. It’s time we changed our paradigm.

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