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Steve’s 2025 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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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've long known Lorrie Moore's name but only recently clued into who she is, how she writes, what she writes about. I'm making my way through her various short story collections which are thought-provoking and touching. ...more | |
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| This is - as you must be aware - a graduation address, and so it's short and to the point, and encouraging. It succeeds in what it originally set out to do, I suppose, and if you are feeling at all earnest then perhaps the thoughtfulness and honesty ...more | |
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| This is - as you must be aware - a graduation address, and so it's short and to the point, and encouraging. It succeeds in what it originally set out to do, I suppose, and if you are feeling at all earnest then perhaps the thoughtfulness and honesty ...more | |
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| I read this after reading her recent craft book about writing; I loved that book but it made me curious, what does someone write like given this is how they think about writing. Well, it's just fantastic. Moving, surprising, intriguing. I need to rea ...more | |
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| I've only ever read these books as complete stories; this is the first one that was split across two separate volumes, and that means I read it with years in between (or something like) and I had no idea what was going on. To me, this felt shallower ...more | |
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| McCracken eventually reveals that she drafted a novel that was both a narrative and a parallel set of sardonic comments about writing itself, and eventually realized that the combination did not work, but that the comments about writing led to this b ...more | |
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| A really engaging set of short stories. Bordas is so creative (an overused word, sorry) in her premises and characters. A family on holiday and the brother brings his annoying girlfriend. A kid at a fat camp. Someone whose job is to help people retur ...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
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