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Steve’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Steve’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Steve Portigal
Goodreads Author
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Winnipeg, Canada
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July 2013
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Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
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2013
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16 editions
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Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories
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2016
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5 editions
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Occupied Minds
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| I have had mixed experiences with the middle of this series but this penultimate novel was really quite exciting. Lots of action, a bit of a cliffhanger or at least something to feed into the last book after this one. Lots of moving pieces well-stage ...more | |
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| This book is a time jump from the previous one, and we follow the journey of a different character, Akin, the hybrid child of Lilith (the protagonist of Dawn). He makes for a good narrator except when he's surrounded by fellow aliens, as the discussi ...more | |
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| I started the book a few days before Munro died or maybe even the very day, by coincidence. I slowly have been reading it, through the extensive profiles and revelatory awful details about her relationships with men (a man?) who repeatedly assaulted ...more | |
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I am pretty sure I was assigned The Dead for an undergraduate class but somehow never looked at the rest of the book? I didn't remember any part of that novella when I got to it. This is a range of stories that mostly deal with the suffering of the v ...more |
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| In the acknowledgements, Martina explains how she started taking classes with David Schweidel, sometime around 2007 or so, and how he helped her turn her stories into this book. She also mentions the other students in the class who gave feedback. I a ...more | |
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“Stories are where the richest insights lie, and your objective is to get to this point in every interview.”
― Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
― Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
“Nip Distractions in the Bud Tactically, make sure that you are not distracted when you arrive. Take care of your food, drink, and restroom needs in advance.”
― Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
― Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
“• Storyboard: An illustration, typically across multiple panels, depicting a scenario. I used storyboards (see Figure 4.4) when working with MediaMaster, a digital music start-up that was trying to choose among a number of different directions in their product development.”
― Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
― Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights
