Our top picks from this week:
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Read how Google designed Gmail’s new left navigation
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Laura Klein educates us on what we euphemistically call “adopting a standard”: The Art of the UX Steal.
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We love sketches at Usabilla, a lot of our walls are covered with them. We are writing an article on how we switch between online and offline media at our office. In the meantime, here is a mighty story on The Messy Art Of UX Sketching by @pbuick.
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Des Traynor sheds his light on The Problem with Data Driven Decisions. In a lot of cases, metrics won’t help you the way talking to your customers does.
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This article on The Golden Age of Design in Startups also got a lot of attention and subsequent discussion. It seems that the designer finally gets to play a star role in the startup discourse. We are happy to see this.
