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Aug 2022
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#295 Discovery with Dan Brown (UXP Class...

James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom
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We need to ask the big hard questions at the beginning of the process so we can make good design decisions later. We talk to Dan Brown about the “discovery phase” or, as Dan suggests, the “discovery mindset”. 
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