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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  13 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
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UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

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Lean Knowledge Management at NASA: Roger Forsgren

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Why AI Agent Sprawl Is a UX Problem

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The Graph Is Your Cortex

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Knowing Before Doing — Episode Transcript

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Graph Databases Give LLMs Context: Dr. Jim Webber

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Knowledge Before Agents

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The Checklist Your Deck Is Missing — Episode Transcript

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Curating Knowledge Before RAG: Jeff McMillan and David Wu

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Building with OpenAI Before ChatGPT: Jeff McMillan

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Three Conversations with Jeff McMillan: Knowledge Before Agents

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Nuclear Fusion, No Power Lines

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Nuclear Fusion, No Power Lines — Episode Transcript

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The Mixologist Mindset: Jonathan Frankle in 2023

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Trust Is the Currency, Knowledge Is the Engine

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When Agents Have Wallets, Trust Is Currency — Episode Transcript

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Real AI Strategy Isn't a Vendor Bake-Off

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No Strategy Without Vision — Episode Transcript

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Designing for the Invisible Interface

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A Job Is Not Just a Bundle of Skills

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The Map Is Not the System

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The Confabulation Machine — Episode Transcript

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Crisis Is Your Opening — Episode Transcript

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The Data Wasn't Meant for This

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Inside The Infinity Machine — Episode Transcript

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Why AI Scaffolding Matters More than Use Cases—Episode Transcript

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The Government Already Knows the Fax Machines Don't Work

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Friction Is the Feature—Episode Transcript

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Cheap Prediction, Expensive Change

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Cheap Prediction, Expensive Change — Episode Transcript

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What AI as Cheap Prediction Means for Enterprise

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What AI as Cheap Prediction Means for Enterprise — Episode Transcript

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LLMs: good at words, bad at math

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Canonical Knowledge is Key — Episode Transcript

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Decentralized AI is the Future

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Decentralized AI is the Future—Episode Transcript

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An Operating System for Organizations: Why Every Business, Product, and Design Leaders Need Agent Runtime Environments

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AI Agent Runtimes in Dedicated Lanes: Lessons from China’s EV Roads

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The Nervous System for AI: Why Every Product Manager and Designer Needs an Agent Runtime Environment

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Beyond Spreadsheets: Why AI Agent Runtimes Are the Next Operating Layer

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Inside the AI Agent Factory: How Enterprises Are Standardizing Agent Behavior

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From Demos to Deployment: Orchestrating Agents Users Can Trust

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Designing for Autonomy: UX Principles for Agentic AI Systems

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What the AI Roll-Up Looks Like

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Understanding AI Agent Runtimes and Agent Frameworks

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An Executive Primer on AI Agent Runtimes

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A Primer on AI Agent Runtimes: Comparing Vendors to Help Your Company Choose the Right One

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Beyond Copilots: The Rise of the AI Agent Orchestration Platform

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Agent Runtime: A UX-Centered Guide for Design Teams

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Agent Runtime: A Guide for Technical Teams

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Build vs. Buy: Should You Develop Your Own Agent Platform?

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Agent Platform: The Strategic Foundation for Enterprise AI Transformation

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Understanding Agent Runtime: The Foundation of Enterprise Agentic AI

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The AI Stack Is Incomplete Without an Agent Platform

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What OAGI Means for Product Owners in Large Companies — And Why It’s Your Next Strategic Horizon

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The Rise of Agent runtime platforms: Who's building the OS for Agents?

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OAGI vs AGI: What Every Business Leader Needs to Know

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Why AI at Scale Requires an AI Agent Runtime: The New Management Layer for Intelligent Organizations

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What Is OAGI—and Why You Need It Before AGI

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Using Conversational AI Platforms to Find the Real ROI

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Invisible Machines Podcast: AI Needs UX

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Invisible Machines Podcast: Greg Vert, Deloitte

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Invisible Machines Podcast: High Risk and Lots of Experimentation

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Invisible Machines Podcast: De-Appifying Our Lives with AI

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Invisible Machines Podcast: Generative AI Won’t Kill Creativity

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The Invisible Machines Podcast is Here!

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Most Read Articles of Q4 2022

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Most Read Articles of Q3 2022

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Most Read Articles of Q2 2022

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Most Read Articles of Q1 2022

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Rewriting Customer Service with Conversational AI

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Will brands that don’t stand for anything die?

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We stand with Ukraine. Here are ways you can help.

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AI is Here, Time to Reimagine your Accessibility Strategy

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Why This UX Role Will Grow Fastest In 2020

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A Six-Minute Breakdown of Gartner’s Top Conversational AI Platforms

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Conversational Applications | the New Face of Your Apps

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Announcing Winners of the 2016 UX Magazine Awards!

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Has Wix Killed Web Design?

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UX Magazine's Intersection

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Win This Book! Design for Real Life

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The Top UX Predictions for 2016

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Announcing Winners in the 2014 Design for Experience Awards

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UX Tastes Like French Melted Baguette (Among Other Things)

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Design Our Coffee and Win This Book!

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Taste Victory with Design for Experience Private Roast Coffee

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Application Deadline Extended in the DfE Awards

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Help Us Find Examples of Great UX … Get a Free Book

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Designers Should Give Themselves Better Experiences

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Early Application Fee Extension for the DfE Awards

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Get a Free Book from Rosenfeld Media and the Design for Experience Awards

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The Top UX Predictions for 2015

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The Top UX Trends of 2014

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Can Experience Design Make Tobacco Cool Again?

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How Do We Design Experiences that Make a Difference?

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How Do We Interact with Our Organizations?

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Kicking Off the 2014 Design for Experience Awards

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What Does Design that Differentiates Look Like?

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Win This Book! Intertwingled

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The Future of Wearable Technology in Pictures

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Win This Book! How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products

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Win This Book (Again)! Drawing Ideas

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What Should Experience Designers Understand About Developers?

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The Emmys and Earthquakes, Shaking Up Social Media

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Win This Book! JavaScript & jQuery

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What Can Experience Designers Learn from Kids?

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Wear Are We?

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Flipping Through JavaScript & jQuery

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Win This Book! Design for Kids

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Interactions that Change the Way Customers Make Choices

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Diving into Customer Experience at Forrester's Forum

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The Power of Service-Oriented Mobile Design

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Making Mountains of Data Rewarding to Roam

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Get to Know the Finalists in the Design for Experience Awards

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We’re Living in an Experience Economy, Design Accordingly

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The Winning Experience of Playing Video Games for Beer

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A Co-Working Space with the Soul of a Coffee Shop at Workshop Cafe

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Diversity, Communication, and Insight are Winning Ingredients for JUXT

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The Design for Experience Awards Site is Live

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Announcing Winners in the International Design for Experience Awards

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Announcing the Drawing Ideas Contest Winners

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Win This Book! Drawing Ideas

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The Top UX Predictions for 2014

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Application Deadline Extended in Design for Experience Awards

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The Top UX Trends of 2013

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UXmas 2013: New design, new faces, same festive goodness

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Five UX Lessons from Hollywood

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Design for Experience: Work Environment for Digital Practitioners

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Design for Experience: Effective In-House Team

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Design for Experience Update: Innovative Technique or Tool

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Design for Experience: Experience for Children

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Flipping Through Drawing Ideas

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Design for Experience: Bottom Line Impact

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Design for Experience: Experience that Makes a Difference

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Design for Experience: Effective Agency Team

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Design for Experience: Interactive Component of an Advertising Campaign

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Design for Experience: Union of Design and Engineering

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UX Mag has an Updated RSS URL

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Design for Experience: Mobile Solution or Application

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Design for Experience: Public Sector

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Design for Experience: Consumer Product

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Design for Experience: Accessibility

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Design for Experience: Complete Customer Experience Ecosystem

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Design for Experience: Cross-Platform Experience

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Design for Experience: Bringing Order to Big Data

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Design for Experience: Interaction Design Innovation

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Design for Experience: Foresight of User Needs

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Design for Experience: Innovative Research Technique

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Design for Experience: Academic Program

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Design for Experience: Adoption of Experience Strategy

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Design for Experience: Bridging Digital and Physical Experiences

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Presenting the Design for Experience Judges

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Announcing the International Design for Experience Awards

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UX Magazine is on Google+

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Win This Book! Evil by Design

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Unboxing: Nest

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The UX Magazine Jobs Board is at Your Service

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Win This Book! Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience

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Hey, Information Architect, What Do You Do?

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UX Magazine is Now Responsive

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Win a Copy of "Lean UX"

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Talking Lean UX with Jeff Gothelf

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We Just Turned 50,000

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We Need to Talk

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Win This Book! Designing the Search Experience: The information architecture of discovery

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Solving the Key Employment and Hiring Problems in the UX Field

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On the First Day of December, UXmas Gave to us …

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Win This Book!

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New to UX Magazine: Seminars

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This is [the New] Myspace

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Rocky Mountain Readers: Free Passes to Lean UX Denver

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Win a Copy of "Quantifying the User Experience"

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Win a Copy of "Playful Design"

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Win a copy of "The Mobile Frontier"

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Midwest Readers: Free ticket available for Conversion Conference - Chicago

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UX Sessions at Conversion Conference’s First Midwest Show

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New UX Job Opportunities Via UX Magazine

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Interesting UX Resources and a Snapshot of the Job Market

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Win a Collection of Useful Prototyping Tools

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Announcing UX Magazine's New Jobs Board

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Trend Guide for 2012 CES

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Win Free User Testing

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For U.K. readers: two free tickets available for Update 2011

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Win a Copy of "Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success"

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Win a Copy of "100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People"

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Win a Copy of "Brave NUI World"

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UX Magazine at the IA Summit in Denver

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Are you interested in online UX training classes? Win a license for Justinmind Prototyper

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Announcing the winners of the "Smart Things" book giveaway

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Win a copy of "Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing UX Design"

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Announcing the winners of the "Simple and Usable" book givaway

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Announcing the winners of the "Designing the iPhone User Experience" book givaway

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Win a copy of "Simple and Usable"

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Win a copy of "Designing the iPhone User Experience"

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"Remote Research" Book Giveaway Winners Announced

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Interested in remote usability and user research? Give us your opinion to win a free copy of "Remote Research"

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Austin, Texas UX/IxD peer workshop 1/4/10

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Free stop motion animation tool

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Influencing Business Strategy Through Design

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Friction Can Be a Good Thing