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Jan 2023
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#306 Human centred design with Alastair ...

James Royal-Lawson & Per Axbom
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We are constantly simplifying the world around us and the people within it. This is a perfectly understandable reaction to the messy things we have to work with. But with every step back we are building a wall between the user and what it is to be human. We talk to Alastair about human centred design. How... 
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