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Sep 2022
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#297 Complexity with Jonas Söder­ström (...

James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom
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In this classic UX Podcast, Jonas Söderström joins us to talk about complexity. We like to think that we have made the world better through digitalisation, but perhaps all of the productivity gains were actually in the very early days of computing.  
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