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Cure Depression by Embracing the Caveman within

Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

He doesn’t care for the term “caveman therapy.” But Stephen Ilardi, associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Kansas, has turned to our hunter-gatherer ancestors for clues about how to best combat major depressive disorder. Furthermore, Ilardi fingers our modern, industrialized lifestyle as the key culprit behind the burgeoning depression epidemic, which continues [...]

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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design – By Bill Buxton

Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

While this is definitely an excellent book for designers, it is just as much a resource for executives, product managers and software engineers. To help illustrate many of his points, Buxton takes the reader through real-life case studies. Buxton is a champion for design, not only as a discipline, but also as a process.  In fact, he places huge [...]

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