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You can get access to 27 Ivy League-level courses for about the price of 2 cups of coffee (or $13) a month. That’s because we are a nonprofit focused on lowering the cost of design education. Learn more about our mission.

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Networking is crucial to advancing your UX career—that’s why we facilitate UX meet-ups in 453 cities around the world. Learn more about IDF Local Groups.

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The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
by Jonas Lowgren, John M. Carroll, Marc Hassenzahl, Thomas Erickson, Alan Blackwell, Kees Overbeeke, Caroline Hummels, Robert Spence, Mark Apperley, Karen Holtzblatt, Hugh R. Beyer, Jesper Kjeldskov, Margaret M. Burnett, Christopher Scaffidi, Dag Svanaes, Kristina Hook, Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Albrecht Schmidt, Gilbert Cockton, Victor Kaptelinin, Clayton M. Christensen, Eric von Hippel, Noam Tractinsky, Ben Challis, Richard Shusterman, William Hudson, Steve Mann, Brian Whitworth, Adnan Ahmad, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Paul A. Fishwick, Jonathan Grudin, Steven Poltrock, Shaun Gallagher, Alan J. Dix, Lene Nielsen, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Doug A. Bowman, Ned Kock, Paul Cairns, Stephen Few, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Fabio Paterno, Dianne Cyr, Richard Mortier, Hamed Haddadi, Tristan Henderson, Derek McAuley, Jon Crowcroft, Andy Crabtree, Constantine Stephanidis and Ann Blandford (eds.)
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