Critiquing is not getting together a random group of people in the room, and letting them make the design for you. No. Critiquing is about a way to make sure that each person in the room is as smart as the smartest individual in the team. With some conscious effort, critiquing will cease to be that awkward phase in design and development where people nod their heads without listening and greet each other with fake smiles. Critiquing is, and should always be, very human at its core. Giving feedback is the best kind of help, but only when it's done right.

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When you think of discipline, you picture strict drill sergeants, shouting orders in your face, while you undergo rigorous training day in and day out. Unless, you're really passionate about it, I don't think anyone would really "want" to be in that position. But, then you resign yourself into thinking that success is not for you - because you're not disciplined enough. Well as it turns out, you do not need hard core "discipline" for life to be successful - you need what is called selective discipline to form good habits, and success will simply follow. This episode is based on an excerpt from The One Thing by Gary Keller.

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Personalisations and customisations exist for the sole reason that we should be able to make anonymous objects, our own - by altering them, reassembling them, designing them - to fit our personalities. In this process, our belongings become unique to us, and we hold them very dear to us. If we did not personalise what we own, it would have no attachment or bonding, and more importantly - it would not be an extension of our identities. We just didn't think of it this way, but we are all designers. This episode is based on an excerpt from "Emotional Design" by Donald Norman.

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People don't like to puzzle over how to do things - they like puzzles in their own place, when they want to be entertained or challenged - but not when they want to find when their dry-cleaner closes. The designs you craft should be self-explanatory, if not self-evident - your users should be able to "get it" without having to think about it. Usability is what separates average products from great ones, and all you need to know about it, in this review of "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug.

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What you think you know, will not be sufficient to help you predict your future - and that is the very reason why you never expected the most unexpected events in your life. This is called the Black Swan model - we generally tend to cling most tightly to pillars that we see toppling. While your experiences do not make you any wiser. All this and more, in this episode, based on an excerpt from The Decision Book by Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler.

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Polygraph tests, or lie-detector tests as they are commonly known, do not read minds. Nor do they read lies. They rely on small but significant physiological changes to predict whether a lie has been spoken, stemming from changes in certain emotions. You would be better off, calling them "emotion-detectors". False alarms are so often, and the underlying working principles dish out so flawed results in real life, that the National Research Council of the United States National Academics, has declared it unusable for legal and security screening. This episode is based on an excerpt from Emotional Design, written by Donald Norman.

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Our strongest mental muscle is our will power. And as it turns out, most of us do not exercise this muscle at all. It's not surprising then, that we often stray away from our goals. We think will-power is always their on call. Wrong. We think we can sometimes fight our negative urges and stay on track. Wrong. We believe our will-power can never be exhausted. Wrong. Everything you need to know about will power and start mastering it, in this episode, based on an excerpt from The One Thing by Gary Keller.

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Design teams need to assess a competitor's products from the end users' point of view, to make informed decisions regarding usability and learnability of their own product. Competitive testing is the best tool to not only understand the business audit results from a user-centred perspective, but also gain clarity about the social, economic and technical context that lead to the adoption of the products into daily lives.

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Extraordinary results in all aspects of our life - work, personal, family and spiritual - is what this book delivers effectively. We all want more. More productivity from our work, more income for a better lifestyle, more satisfaction from life, more time for ourself, our family, and our friends. But all this at a cost of less distractions, less meetings, less stress, less e-mails and messages. If that sounds like your plan, this masterpiece by Gary Keller, is for you.

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All conflicts can have an emotional reaction, or a rational reaction. Emotional reactions include flight, fight and give up. Rational reactions are to evade the responsibility altogether, to compromise, or to reach a consensus. Only resolving conflicts by reaching a common consensus allows for both parties to have a win-win situation. All the other techniques will lead to a lose-win, or worse, a lose-lose situation.

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