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	<title>Design By Candlelight</title>
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	<description>User Experience Design, even in the wee hours!</description>
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		<title>UX Video of the Week: Share This with Your Clients</title>
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This video is a simple and straight forward video, in which Bill Verplank explains what interaction design is all about (from the series of videos that accompanies Bill Moggridge’s book “Designing Interactions”).  Given that we are often asked just what Interaction Design is and why it is so important, it is important to learn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/ux-video-week-share-clients/</link>
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		<title>UX Video of the Week: Being Human is NOT Quantifiable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t know Jeff Parks, you should. A former cognitive rehab therapist, Jeff, is now an Information Architect and consultant based in Ottawa, Canada. He shares some interesting insights into &#8220;being human&#8221; in the following video:

Being Human is NOT Quantifiable from Jeff Parks on Vimeo.
The Following are the Key Takeaways I got from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/ux-video-week-human-quantifiable/</link>
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		<title>An Everyday Reminder of Donald Norman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think of Donald Norman everyday when I walk into the executive conference room.  There&#8217;s a glass door one must walk through in order to get into the executive offices. There&#8217;s a pull type door handle on the door but you must push to walk through. Thus I think of Donald Norman&#8217;s argument in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/everyday-reminder-donald-norman/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Experience is it Anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have gotten asked a lot in interviews lately. &#8220;So what are you? Do you consider yourself IA or IxD?&#8221; And I find myself asking, &#8220;Does it matter?&#8221;
I have to ask all UX professionals everywhere, &#8220;Why the divide?&#8221; Aren&#8217;t we as professionals in User Experience supposed to be about the design of that experience no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/experience-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Change up the Experience</title>
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As a designer, I am responsible for the experiences I create for my users. Whether  creating a financial web site or a game, I need to consider how people will interact with that information.  What excites me about this video is it takes an everyday object and creates a new and unique experience [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/changing-experience/</link>
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		<title>Digital Road Signs</title>
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I was watching Top Gear on the BBC and they were discussing the design of the road signs for the highways (Fast forward to 4:45 within the video).
In the 1950&#8217;s when the government was developing the motor ways in the UK, they realised that the current signs were not going to work.  Thus a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/digital-road-signs/</link>
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		<title>Rethinking my Blog: Girls &amp; Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came home today from playing soccer, injured.  If you know me, then you know that is not all that uncommon. I may regret this in the morning. Or perhaps not as it got me inspired to blog.
First I want to state that for 2010 I think I will be talking about User Experience in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/rethinking-blog/</link>
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		<title>A Week in Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I learn from following UX Designers on Twitter:
User&#8217;s Brain vs Your Design &#8211; A Brief reminder of gestalt principles as applied to 2D design.
The Yahoo Pattern Library &#8211; Good to help explore ideas on how to design something.  Not an end all be all answer.
The Semantic Web and a semantic search for Information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/week-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Why Bill Gates Was Successful</title>
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[Link from Fast Company]
Sheer determination and persistence gets us farther than anything else. Take Colonel Sanders for example.  He talked to hundreds before he finally got someone to take him seriously and thus Kentucky Fried Chicken was born.
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		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/bill-gates-successful/</link>
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		<title>Intro to Programming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend, Chris Stead, has been introducing me into programming. I have tried to pick up programming before but usually struggle with the concepts as I cannot visualize what the code is doing. Chris explained the basics of programming as such:


Imagine they (control structures) are like a police officer directing traffic around an accident, a really big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.designbycandlelight.com/intro-programming/</link>
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