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14 LGBTQ+ Innovators, Inventors and Scientists who changed the world

Idea to Value

He is an advocate for using open source software and hardware available for any entrepreneur, no matter what their background is. In 1954, he was found dead due to a reported cyanide-based suicide. In June 2012, in honor of Alan Turing, Hall published an article in Linux Magazine announcing that he is gay.

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When Information Design is a Matter of Life or Death

Boxes and Arrows

One of the changes in the 2009 European Commission directive 3 was to ensure that all medicine information leaflets ‘reflect the results of consultations with target patient groups.’ Reasons for not reading or only skimming the leaflet from start to finish could be due to the amount of information or the leaflet design.

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The UX Professionals’ Guide to Working with Agile Scrum Teams

Boxes and Arrows

The adoption of Agile software development approaches are on the rise across our industry, which means UX professionals are more likely than ever to support Agile projects. In 2009, I moved on to Salesforce.com, where Agile methods (including Scrum) were implemented across their entire research and development organization.

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How to Boost Innovation by Recycling Existing Ideas

IdeaScale

For the hardware: A thousand songs in your pocket ; for the software: so easy that your Mother could do it ; and for the project: and on the shelves in eight months ! As Bill Fischer highlights in his ‘Innovating The iPod’ article; “The goals articulated by the leadership were surprisingly simple, broad yet precise.

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So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh?

Boxes and Arrows

The following article is an abridged version of Chapter 7 of Nathan Curtis’s 2009 book, Modular Web Design published by New Riders. Patterns offer principles to follow and avoid specifics like style, editorial guidelines, page location, and finalized code. A design pattern is a solution to a recurring problem.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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How to Keep Innovating in an Economic Downturn

Innov8rs

As McKinsey points out , organizations that focused on innovation even during the 2009 crisis, outperformed the market average by 30% and their growth continued to accelerate the following years as well. So, you need to review and fine-tune the existing innovation strategy to match the new priorities.

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