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ADAPT WHAT IS USEFUL

#201: Daily Mentoring with Trevor Crane on GreatnessQuest.com

SUMMARY
Today is special because I’m announcing the end of this podcast - at least, for a while.

I was at the gym the other day, and worked out for 3 ½ hours. Weights, Tennis a big Cardio workout, and a Bike ride.

Afterwards? I was knocked out for 2+ hours just to recuperate.

When I told my personal trainer at the gym, he was like, “WTF Trevor?! You working out that hard on all that extra just negated all of the work we did together. Trevor, if you want the results you told me you wanted… YOU NEED TO DO LESS.”

The subject for to day is from a quote from Bruce Lee, “ADAPT WHAT IS USEFUL, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

The truth is, this podcast needs to change.

The shift will also be MASSIVELY to your benefit. Fact is, I want to help you get more, have more, create more, contribute more… to help you take your life and business to the next level.

This has been my mission for 5-years with this podcast.

But the birth of something NEW and something BIG that is coming. So enjoy today’s show, and stay tuned for what’s coming next...

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Author Giles Colborne returns to Design Critique to talk with Tim Keirnan about the new second edition of Simple and Usable: Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design.

Simple and Usable is one of the best books on UX we've owned in our careers. The contents are simple and usable just as the title promises, and this is one book that both practitioners and stakeholders will benefit from reading.

Giles and Tim talk for 40 minutes about various topics including

• Giles' career having progressed along with the UX profession across the decades, moving from basic website design to service design to organizational design.
• The physical design of the book reflects the theme, and the publisher did not stray from the successful book design of the first edition.
• How "get out of the office" is still of prime importance today and the crucial importance of field research with our users.
• Types of users Giles has observed in his career: experts, willing adopters, mainstreamers.
• The seductive danger of relying on expert users in our designs.
• How Alan Cooper's method of Personas has been undermined by some practitioners' use of person-less personas when they haven't even talked with or observed actual users. How this risks the integrity of the design profession as much as a user-less usability test would.
• Working with stakeholders on design projects. Being teacher or facilitator as opposed to "persuader".
• Don't rush into design. Understanding what's core takes time.

Simple and Usable can be found at its entry on publisher Pearson/NewRiders site.

By answering the ten questions posed in this teaching you will discover how usable you are to God and His kingdom. The Bible responses to these ten questions will guide you into the most important endeavors of life in which you could invest your self. Imagine the privilege, first, of knowing God, second of loving Him, and then to participate with Him in His big big plans.