Mar
26
What is the biggest problem I face almost every time a client hires me to do something about a web project going awry? They don’t know a thing about their users. They don’t have a clue, whatsoever. Unbelievable but true!
Good designers will certainly argue that THEY don’t need user data to do proper design. That [...]
Mar
26
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a large but unknowable proportion of businesses fail pursuing nearly perfect strategies
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In Part I of We Tried to Warn You, three themes were developed:
# Organizations as wicked problems,
# The differences of failure leverage in small versus large organizations, and
# [...]
Mar
21
Episode 33 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Dr. John Ratey, author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. We discuss why both moderate and vigorous levels of exercise are beneficial not only for combating problems like anxiety, depression, and attention deficit disorder, but also for improving learning [...]
Mar
20
This is the enhanced version (AAC) of Brain Science Podcast #32: Brain Anatomy. It includes illustrations from Beyond the Zonules of Zinn: A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain (2008) by David Bainbridge. These are used with the author’s permission.
If you can’t play this version please look in the feed for the original mp3. The audio [...]
Mar
18
In every waking moment, our brains are processing the stimuli in our environment and responding, consciously and unconsciously, to what is going on around us. This may mean something simple like stopping automatically at a crosswalk based on the color of the traffic signal. Or it may mean something more deliberate, like deciding to turn [...]