Giving Your Product A Soul

After a few years of designing products for clients, I began to feel fatigued. I wondered why. Turns out, I'd been chasing metric after metric. “Increase those page views!” “Help people spend more time in the app!” And it kept coming. Still, something was missing. I knew that meeting goals was part of what a designer does, but I could see how my work could easily become commoditized and less fulfilling unless something changed.

I thought of how bored I'd be if I kept on that path. I needed to build some guiding principles that would help me find my place in design. These principles would help grow and would shape my career in a way that fits me best.

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OSHA Updates Guidelines for Health and Safety Programs

Matt Kraus

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In October, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released an updated set of Recommended Practices for Safety and Health programs, bringing the original guidelines from 1989 into the 21st century.
The purpose of the OSHA guidelines is to help employers improve safety and health in their workplaces, and the updates reflect, among other things, how workplaces and the economy have changes in the last 27 years. OSHA believes these new recommendations will be of particular use to small- and medium-size businesses.

LIGO's black hole detection survives the gravastar test

LIGO famously saw two black holes merging -- but it turns out it may have seen an event even more exotic and intriguing than that.

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Microsoft unveils its folding desktop – the £2,500 Surface Studio

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Everything we know about Netflix's production of The Punisher

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Coke profit falls, but global volume up

Growth of Sprite and energy drink brands in North America offsets Diet Coke decline

Oxford scientists call into question the idea that the universe's expansion is accelerating

New findings from Oxford University shed a different light on the Nobel-winning discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

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