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Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra — WisdomDeck honest review
Honest review · Entrepreneurship

Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra

Sierra's argument that products win by making users better at the thing they care about, not by being better products. Visual, witty and profound about learning design.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Make the user awesome, not the product.
  2. Reduce cognitive leaks.
  3. Help them past the suck threshold.

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Write what your users want to be badass at.

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Make users awesome.

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