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		<title>Ten-Year Reflections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Bolt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A Look Back Last week our company turned ten. I didn&#8217;t think it would mean that much to me, since ten years is pretty arbitrary, but it&#8217;s been fun to reflect a bit. For most of the years since my buddy Craig Peters and I incorporated on January 16th, 2002, I&#8217;ve been concerned with running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Personalization Always Dangerous?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 01:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephanie Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days after recommending ‘personalization’ to a client’s site that wasn’t making use of user viewing history, I watched Eli Pariser’s TED talk about the filter bubble. He explains how personalization online—Google, Facebook, etc.— is dangerously limiting our world view.  I panicked, thinking I had subconsciously sipped the personalization potion. After all, much user interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Great Talks: A Mashup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Bolt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the privilege of Jared Spool attending and critiquing some of my recent talks, and in preparation for a UIE webinar I&#8217;m giving, he took time to rip me apart give me some awesome feedback. His advice reminded me of notes I took almost ten years ago at an Edward Tufte seminar about giving great talks, and so the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZDNet Writes an Article About Our iPad Article for UX Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Bolt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guys over at ZDNet who cover all things Mac-related have written up a quick summary of our recent comparison of mobile interaction with the Square payment system between the iPad and iPhone. Cool to see this article get so many comments and shout-outs. Both links below: 1. The ZDNet article about our article 2. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design, UX, and Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Tulathimutte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling writes a piece for ACM&#8217;s Interactions magazine about the relationship between design and literature. Writers cling hard to the word, to semantics, to meaning and sensibility. Design, by contrast, is less verbal. Design is busily inventing new ways to blow itself apart. Design is taking more risks with itself than literature. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on The Cloud and ownership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Tulathimutte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://boltpeters.com/blog/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the prognosticating manner of Vannevar Bush&#8217;s &#8220;As We May Think&#8220;, ReadWriteWeb has a piece on the future of the desktop, essentially predicting that desktops will be replaced by browsers, will all significant functions pushed out to the cloud: Is the desktop even going to exist anymore as the Web becomes increasingly important? Yes, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Bullshit Research in Five Easy Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 21:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Tulathimutte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone in the UX field who&#8217;s worked for a few companies will recognize a type of moderated research that gives off a reek of inauthenticity. Tell me if this sounds familiar: one moderator and six users sit around a table in a converted meeting room. The moderator tells the users, each of whom have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiz time!</title>
		<link>http://boltpeters.com/blog/quiz-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://boltpeters.com/blog/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do expectant mothers have to do with Aunt Jean’s plans for her family vacation on a cruise? We recently finished up a couple of fun studies where we ended up recommending that the client take a look at some websites that were from a totally different industry than their own. In the example above, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Users Suck</title>
		<link>http://boltpeters.com/blog/users-suck-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate Bolt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if Todd Wilken&#8217;s blog post on Why usability is a path to failure at the adaptive path blog was just venting, or maybe even going for the &#8220;99% Something Inflammatory&#8221; blog topic methodology, but I took Todd to mean what he said, and I kind of dug it. Here&#8217;s why. For years [...]]]></description>
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