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		<title>Speed Up Facebook Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surgeworks has teamed up with Smashing to release this very useful set of Facebook stensils in PSD format. The download is free under a creative commons licence.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/28/speed-up-facebook-design/</link>
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		<title>How good is you gut?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every week Anne Holland posts the results of a A/B test of a user interface and poses a question, for example this week: &#8220;Do Happy, Smiling People Convince More PPC-Driven Traffic to Stick Around &#038; Shop for Awhile?&#8221;. The best bit for me is the chance to guess the results before viewing them. Despite years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/27/how-good-is-you-gut/</link>
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		<title>The weekly quick list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No waffle, just links. GEL (Global Experience Language by BBC (suggested by Sophie) Museum 2.0: Teenagers and Social Participation by Nina Simon (suggested by Pat)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/26/the-weekly-quick-list-3/</link>
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		<title>Do you like to Facebook?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to reconcile two recent articles Facebook: As Unpopular as Airlines, Cable Companies &#038; the IRS and Facebook Hits New Traffic Record. So Facebook has 500 milion members, 140 milion visitors a month spending 8 billion minutes a day but at the same time reports so poorly on an American Consumer Satisfaction Index? The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/22/do-you-like-to-facebook/</link>
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		<title>The availability bias and personas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Cooper Journal Jenea Hayes has written a post titled &#8220;Combating availability bias&#8220;. It&#8217;s about the availbility heuristic, which she defines as &#8220;the tendency to judge how important or common something is based on how easy it is for us to think of an example&#8221;. Her post is the best justification of personas I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/21/personas-and-the-availability-bias/</link>
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		<title>The weekly quicklist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No waffle, just links. iPad and Kindle Reading Speeds by Jakob Nielsen (suggested by Pat) How to get your story heard at work by Shawn Callahan (suggested by Pat) Social Media Monitoring for Market Research &#8211; 6 Warnings by Randy Hamilton (suggested by Pat) Losing To The Social Web: Visualized by Aden Hepburn (suggested by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/14/the-weekly-quicklist/</link>
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		<title>Jay Parkinson &#8211; The Future Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jay Parkinson is a Doctor who is looking to revolutionise the service design process for healthcare in the US (and is now tackling the NHS in the UK too). An interesting talk, with some scary stats in there&#8230; 2010/05 Jay Parkinson from CreativeMornings on Vimeo.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/12/jay-parkinson-the-future-well/</link>
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		<title>The weekly quick list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No waffle, just links. [MSNBC.com] A tour of our new and improved pages by Ashley Wells (suggested by Angus) The Super Technical Guide to GoToMeeting for Remote Usability on a Mac by Bolt&#124;Peters (suggested by Manuel) Research Lifestreaming by Harris Interactive (suggested by Pat)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/07/08/the-weekly-quick-list-2/</link>
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		<title>The weekly quick list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No waffle, just links. Does Your Corporate Reputation Have New Owners? by Craig Pearce (suggested by Pat) Profiling Australian shoppers in 2050 by Josette Dunn (suggested by Pat) 50 Sketching Resources for User Experience Designers by Catriona Cornett (suggested by Manuel)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/06/30/the-weekly-quick-list/</link>
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		<title>Getting gold from old mobile phones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ross Dawson has created this interesting infographic: used mobile phones yield 1000 times more gold than gold ore. Really illustrates the point doesn&#8217;t it?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.usit.com.au/2010/06/30/getting-gold-from-old-mobile-phones/</link>
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