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A list of cognitive biases from Wikipedia that have been grouped by Buster Benson. Plenty of reading for the next few days/weeks/months...

A great article asking designers to not shy away from asking questions that will help clients get to the core of their needs and allow designers to provide valuable solutions.

Watching our designers at Planet Argon work, I've been lucky enough to be first-hand witness to what this article outlines any designer can do for clients. Watching them listen to client and project needs and thoughtfully provide proven solutions makes participating in projects that much more fun.

Brett Warren shares five principals for designing healthcare applications

This article was a painful reminder at how broken the health care system is today. It proved statements we’ve made in the past at how inefficiency can make processes more frustrating and challenging. If we are fortunate with good health, then some of these issues are minor hassles in our life – though still unnecessary. But there are millions who are not as fortunate. Those with the more challenging of issues, most likely have to deal with these obstacles and frustrations more than they ever should. How much more stress can we add to people who are just trying to get better; who are just trying to live? How many experiences do we have to suffer through, until we start to talk about real solutions? With every problem, a solution is out there ready to be tested – this one is long overdue.

Recently, I was invited to chat with Chris Bolton of Murmur Creative to talk shop. We covered a lot in 45-minutes. Check it out!

The folks over at Treehouse interviewed Carlos on our approach to hiring junior developers.

Planet Argon has worked with Ruby on Rails for over a decade. While not without it's hardships or challenges, we feel that "The Rails Doctrine" perfectly highlights the reasons why Planet Argon has found RoR to be a recipe for success. Both in business and the happiness of all parties involved in a project.

Lorraine Chapman shares thoughts on the Design Thinking Framework that Macadamian is using for the design of Healthcare applications.

Portland Business Journal's write up on the upcoming relocation to our new studio.

Our team recently sat down and started talking about some trends we think might pick up steam for 2016. The conversation ventured down another road, trends we wish would go away. While I would necessarily call these trends, this article points out a lot of nuisances that sites still make us go through, and we still deal with on a day-to-day basis. WHY!?! Make it stop!