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	<title>All This ChittahChattah</title>
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		<title>Wherefore art thou, User?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately we’ve been hearing and responding to a lot of chatter in the only-boring-stodgy-Microsoft-types-do-research vein, with language that essentially boils all user research down to testing tools that hinder the creative design process (see Don Norman hates research, Michal Migurski comes out against it).
But user research, at least as we conceive and practice it, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There goes my hero&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploitative sellout and marketing disappointment, or layer cake of irony? 

I saw this Kurt Cobain-branded Converse All-Star recently on the bargain racks at Ross. I laughed, I cried. 

Detail of another shoe in &#8220;The Kurt Cobain Collection,&#8221; from the Converse website
Seattlest had a pithy take on it:
Kurt Cobain shaped the country&#8217;s rock music landscape while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/there-goes-my-hero/</link>
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		<title>links for 2010-03-10</title>
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Engineering by Design [Dartmouth Engineer]
It’s an improv exercise, but it’s not taking place in the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. Instead, it is in Professor Peter Robbie’s Design Thinking class in Thayer School’s MacLean Engineering Sciences Center. “This class on improv is a tool for brainstorming,” he explains. “I’ve always thought that the quickest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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Peter Booth (of Tin Horse Design) &#8211; Observing the Consumer [Eastman Innovation Lab] &#8211; Maybe this is a personal bias, but I&#39;m often very compelled by how designers (at least, those who really &#34;get&#34; user research) talk about research. Because they always frame in terms of what it&#39;s good for, how it helps us make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-528/</link>
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Books in the Age of the iPad [Craig Mod] &#8211; I propose the following to be considered whenever we think of printing a book
* The Books We Make embrace their physicality &#8212; working in concert with the content to illuminate the narrative
* The Books We Make are confident in form and usage of material
* The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-548/</link>
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		<title>Bringing life to technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several things caught my eye today representing different ways of bridging manufactured things and organic beings (human and otherwise).
Alternative scale: instead of showing weight, this scale tells a person what to eat.

The knit footie  below uses the heat generated by an Apple power adapter to warm the toes.

And finally, this living lamp produces a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core77 Wiretap: Portigal Consulting talk about the Analog Human and The Digital Machine &#8211; Core77</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re featured in conversation on Core77 in Portigal Consulting talk about the Analog Human and The Digital Machine
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		<link>http://www.portigal.com/news/core77-wiretap-portigal-consulting-talk-about-the-analog-human-and-the-digital-machine-core77/</link>
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		<title>Core77 Wiretap: Portigal Consulting talk about the Analog Human and The Digital Machine</title>
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Check out Core77 Wiretap: Portigal Consulting talk about the Analog Human and The Digital Machine. Here&#8217;s a teaser
Wonder what the conversation is like at someone else&#8217;s shop? Ever wanted to go backstage at a design firm? We asked Steve Portigal, Julie Norvaisas, and Dan Soltzberg of Portigal Consulting to sit down and share what they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/core77-wiretap-portigal-consulting-talk-about-the-analog-human-and-the-digital-machine/</link>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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IxDA SF presents Interaction&#8217;10 redUX &#8211; Steve will be kicking off this Saturday&#39;s session with a 30-minute teaser of his Interaction&#124;10 workshop, &#34;Well, we&#39;ve done all this research&#8230;now what?&#34; (The info isn&#39;t yet up on the site as of this writing, but Steve will be the first presenter, at 2:00)

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		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-547/</link>
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		<title>Effective Concept Testing: Getting the Answers You Want to Hear!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were intrigued to see that Netflix is soliciting customer feedback about a new product concept. It&#8217;s great to see them incorporating users into the development process, but we figure if they are going to be asking these sorts of questions, they might want to take the next logical step. Check out our re-enactment:
 
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		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/effective-concept-testing-getting-the-answers-you-want-to-hear/</link>
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		<title>I Need You to Need Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The need statement (&#8220;People need&#8230; blah blah&#8221;) is a cornerstone of user research. Observations, patterns and insights (all our hard work!) distilled into succinct statements neatly pointing to the problem that we are empowered to solve through design. I have long been pondering the use of (and occasional over-reliance on) the need statement (&#8220;It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/i-need-you-to-need-me/</link>
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		<title>Steve speaking at Interaction&#8217;10 redUX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve will be giving a 30-minute teaser of his workshop, Well, we&#8217;ve done all this research&#8230;now what? at  Interaction&#8217;10 redUX on March 6 in San Francisco.
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		<link>http://www.portigal.com/news/steve-speaking-at-interaction10-redux/</link>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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Topeka, KS changes its name (for a month) to Google, KS &#8211; I wrote about this sort of bombastic advertising in interactions (http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1231) referencing the dot-com era&#39;s Half, Oregon, and the classic Truth or Consequences, NM
Toy Traveling &#8211; Travel Agency for Teddy bears and cuddly toys &#8211; [Productizing the&#34; trend&#34; of taking pictures of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-546/</link>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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Segmenting the Hendrix fan [NYTimes.com] &#8211; &#8220;We believe that there is a Jimi Hendrix fan out there at 99 cents and at $9 and at $20 &#8212; all the way across the spectrum,&#8221; Mr. Block said. &#8220;We want to make each fan an appropriate offering. Is the complete Jimi Hendrix on vinyl something every music [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-545/</link>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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Klaus Kaasgaard: Why Designers Sometimes Make Me Cringe [interactions magazine] &#8211; [A response to Dan Formosa&#39;s piece about marketing research] There is no doubt that Formosa has been exposed to a lot of bad market research in his career. So have I. But I have also been exposed to a lot of bad design research, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-544/</link>
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		<title>Steve co-presenting UX Process Improved: Integrating User Insight at SXSW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Portigal and Aviva Rosenstein will be presenting UX Process Improved: Integrating User Insight at SXSW in Austin on March 13
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		<link>http://www.portigal.com/news/steve-co-presenting-ux-process-improved-integrating-user-insight-at-sxsw/</link>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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chat roulette &#8211; a short film by Casey Neistat &#8211; Chatroulette is a emergent online phenomena, connecting random people via webcams. Casey acts as participant-observer, experimenting with the service and observing what happens, as well as reflecting on his own feelings about the experience and ruminating about the implications.
The worst Olympic uniform [Rob Walker] &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-543/</link>
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		<title>My Devo color is red</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After embarking on a customer research process (see Focus grouping the future), Devo (yes, the band) is now running a color survey. Surveys? What&#8217;s not to love! While we encourage you to check it out (if for no other reason than the satisfying UI, one of the best we&#8217;ve ever seen in an online survey), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/my-devo-color-is-red/</link>
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		<title>ChittahChattah Quickies</title>
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Pediatricians call for a choke-proof hot dog [USATODAY.com] &#8211; The American Academy of Pediatricswould like to see foods such as hot dogs &#34;redesigned&#34; so their size, shape and texture make them less likely to lodge in a youngster&#39;s throat. More than 10,000 children under 14 go to the emergency room each year after choking on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/chittahchattah-quickies-542/</link>
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		<title>URF10: Research, Creativity and Astonishment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to our friends at Bolt&#124;Peters for hosting an energizing User Research Friday last week! Dan and I heard a recurring theme of research and creativity, both in method and mindset. Dan noted that several people spoke about research and creativity as though they were separate, and that combining them was somehow novel. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.portigal.com/blog/urf10-research-creativity-and-astonishment/</link>
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