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Inayaili de León Persson
1 December 2016

November’s reading list

Design

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of November:

  1. BARBICAN | Urban Poetry
  2. The Future of Web Education
  3. A new algorithm for finding a visual center of a polygon
  4. This Map of the World Just Won Japan’s Prestigious Design Award
  5. Ten things I wish I knew as a UX Research team of one
  6. Designing a Usable Dashboard
  7. DesignOps at Airbnb: How we manage effective design at scale
  8. The Coming Revolution in Email Design

Thank you to Jamie, Karl, Matthew and me for the links this month!

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