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Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek
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Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design by William Lidwell
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The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
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The Laws of Simplicity / John Maeda
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley
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The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design by Philip B. Meggs
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Product Design Book: A Comprehensive Guide on Designing Digital Products People Will Love by Dávid Pásztor
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Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services by Kim Goodwin
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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
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Interaction Design
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
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Microinteractions: Designing with Details by Dan Saffer
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Inclusive Design Patterns - Coding Accessibility Into Web Design by Heydon Pickering
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
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Designing Interactions [With CDROM] by Bill Moggridge
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Information Architecture
A Practical Guide to Information Architecture by Donna Spencer
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Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke
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How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody by Abby Covert
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Reframing Information Architecture by Andrea Resmini
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Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences by Andrea Resmini
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Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
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Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems by Hugh Beyer
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Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf
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The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug
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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton
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Agile Experience Design: A Digital Designer's Guide to Agile, Lean, and Continuous by Lindsay Ratcliffe
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The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience by Rex Hartson
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Behavioral Science
How to Get People to Do Stuff: Master the Art and Science of Persuasion and Motivation by Susan M. Weinschenk
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
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100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People by Susan M. Weinschenk
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Rework by Jason Fried
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The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
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The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
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NNGroup
Books by Nielsen Norman Group Authors
Nielsen Norman Group
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
Nielsen Norman Group
Eyetracking Web Usability: Book by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice
Nielsen Norman Group
The Design of Future Things: Book by Don Norman
Nielsen Norman Group
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Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience: Designing the User Experience by Jennifer Fleming
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Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites by Peter Morville
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Designing Products People Love: How Great Designers Create Successful Products by Scott Hurff
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Org Design for Design Orgs
O’Reilly Online Learning
Designing Bots
O’Reilly Online Learning
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
O’Reilly Online Learning
Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition
O’Reilly Online Learning
Understanding Industrial Design
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Storytelling in Design
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Design Leadership
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Fixing the Enterprise UX Process
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The Definitive Guide to Integrating UX & Agile
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Enterprise UX Industry Report 2017-2018
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The Essential Elements of Successful UX Design
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The State of Web Design: 2016 Edition
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The Field Guide to UX Strategy
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The Field Guide to Self-Employed Web Design
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The 5 Building Blocks of Interaction Design
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UX Gamification Redefined
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Timeless Mobile UI Design Trends: Meaningful Mobile Typography
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Design Collaboration for Product Teams: Mastering Remote Collaboration
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The Building Blocks of Visual Hierarchy
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The Visual Storyteller's Guide to Web UI Design
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Free Whitepaper: 3 UX Mistakes Killing Good Design
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The Complete UX Wireframing Process
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Content Wireframing for Responsive Design
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UX Design With Developers: Mockups Developers Won't Hate
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Web Design Book of Trends 2015-2016
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Web UI Trends Present & Future: Card Design Patterns
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White Space in Web UI Design: Balance & Contrast
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Web UI Trends Present & Future: The Vibrancy of Color
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White Space in Web UI Design: Mastering the Power of Nothing
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Web UI Trends Present & Future: The Elegance of Minimalism
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Web UI Design for the Human Eye: Principles of Visual Consistency
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Consistency in UI Design: Creativity Without Confusion
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Web UI Trends Present & Future: The Evolution of Flat Design
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Web UI Design for the Human Eye: Content Patterns & Typography
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Web UI Design Process: The Visual Power of Mockups
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Interaction Design Best Practices: Mastering the Intangibles
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Interaction Design Best Practices: Mastering the Tangibles
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The Ultimate Guide to Prototyping
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Design Thinking Handbook, your @InVisionApp primer for sparking design thinking transformation
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Principles of Product Design
Principles of Product Design, a book of essential practices to produce great products
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The New Design Frontier by InVision
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A Book Apart
Top of the class brief books for people who make websites.
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HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
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CSS3 For Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
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The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane
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Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte
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Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter
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Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
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Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro
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Content Strategy for Mobile by Karen McGrane
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Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
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Sass for Web Designers by Dan Cederholm
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On Web Typography by Jason Santa Maria
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You're My Favorite Client by Mike Monteiro
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Responsible Responsive Design by Scott Jehl
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Designing for Touch by Josh Clark
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Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles by Ethan Marcotte
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Going Responsive by Karen McGrane
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Git for Humans (A Book Apart #17) by David Demaree
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Design for Real Life by Eric A. Meyer
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Practical SVG by Chris Coyier
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JavaScript For Web Designers by Mat Marquis
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Demystifying Public Speaking by Lara Hogan
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Practical Design Discovery by Dan M. Brown
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Accessibility for Everyone by Laura Kalbag
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The New CSS Layout by Rachel Andrew
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Conversational Design by Erika Hall
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Going Offline by Jeremy Keith
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Flexible Typesetting by Tim Brown
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Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grigsby
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Everyday Information Architecture by Lisa Maria Martin
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Resilient Management by Lara Hogan
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Expressive Design Systems by Yesenia Perez-Cruz
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Cross-Cultural Design by Senongo Akpem
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Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout by Rachel Andrew
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Pricing Design by Dan Mall
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Working the Command Line by Remy Sharp
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Making Sense of Color Management by Craig Hockenberry
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Color Accessibility Workflows by Geri Coady
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Animation at Work by Rachel Nabors
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Webfont Handbook by Bram Stein
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Image Performance by Mat Marquis
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Writing for Designers by Scott Kubie
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Chronicle Books
Draw Down
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Liftoff! - Rosenfeld Media
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Writing Is Designing - Rosenfeld Media
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Orchestrating Experiences - Rosenfeld Media
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Project Management for Humans - Rosenfeld Media
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Build Better Products
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Designing Interface Animation - Rosenfeld Media
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The User's Journey - Rosenfeld Media
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Validating Product Ideas - Rosenfeld Media
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Managing Chaos - Rosenfeld Media
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Practical Empathy - Rosenfeld Media
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Design for Kids - Rosenfeld Media
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A Web for Everyone - Rosenfeld Media
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Eye Tracking the User Experience - Rosenfeld Media
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Why We Fail - Rosenfeld Media
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The User Experience Team of One - Rosenfeld Media
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Design for Care - Rosenfeld Media
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Interviewing Users - Rosenfeld Media
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Service Design - Rosenfeld Media
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Content Everywhere - Rosenfeld Media
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See What I Mean - Rosenfeld Media
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Make It So - Rosenfeld Media
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https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/the-mobile-frontier/
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Playful Design - Rosenfeld Media
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Search Analytics for Your Site - Rosenfeld Media
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Storytelling for User Experience - Rosenfeld Media
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Remote Research - Rosenfeld Media
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Prototyping - Rosenfeld Media
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Web Form Design - Rosenfeld Media
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Card Sorting - Rosenfeld Media
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Design Is the Problem - Rosenfeld Media
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Mental Models - Rosenfeld Media
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The Jobs To Be Done Playbook - Rosenfeld Media
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Living in Information - Rosenfeld Media
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Meeting Design - Rosenfeld Media
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The Right Way to Select Technology - Rosenfeld Media
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Blind Spot - Rosenfeld Media
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Liminal Thinking - Rosenfeld Media
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Digital and Marketing Asset Management - Rosenfeld Media
Rosenfeld Media
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MIT Press
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Smashing Magazine
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