Also a reminder of important steps YOU need to take after the new site
launches. We need all existing members to take a simple step to get
access and continue your participation with your previous history
connected to the future. We need you to visit the new website in
order to request a password.
In my assessment of this situation in the world at large, User
Experience (UX, or UXD) has become the umbrella term for a range of
fields that consider and address various aspects of the user
experience with products and services. All the fields of UX can be
defined as operating on a spectrum of
So interesting. Living, nearly opposite definitions alive in the
community. What say ye?
Cheers,
Liz
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49125
Hi Hugh, et al., I'm the IxDA Vice President and I'd be glad to help
with any Red Cross communications if an official voice is
considered important for this urgent initiative. You can reach me via
email most easily at ixd(at)elizabethbacon.com and I'll do what I
can.
Bravo for the great
Hi folks,
I wanted to post this message a second time as it's an important
update and an opportunity for community feedback if you so desire.
Please see the main update announcement here:
http://www.ixda.org/blog/2009/11/conan-update-design-doc/
The principal part I wanted to re-share is that
Super, thanks very much for reviewing the doc, Dave!
RE: these two feature requests, I daresay that the Job Board
postings can address relocation telecommuting in the body of the
posting at launch. But it would indeed be great to filter explicitly
for jobs that support relocation and/or
Thanks very much, folks! Got multiple additional rec's for Media
Temple offline, and one for Acquia as well due to the Drupal
connection. We're investigating our options.
Cheers,
Liz
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Hi Thomas, et al.,
The current website was built awhile back solely through the generous
efforts of one of our members. Because it relies on the limited
capabilities of the Mailman mailing list technology, it sometimes has
difficulty collating emails into the proper thread. Additionally, note
Hi IxDA peeps,
We're looking for hosting service Drupal support suggestions as
options to consider for the upcoming new IxDA.org website. Presently
we're hosted by Dreamhost and that may be the right option going
forward but we'd love to get some additional ideas from the
community. Here are our
Hello IxDA,
I'd like to announce the posting of a Conan status report, i.e., an
IxDA website redesign project update. Please visit:
http://www.ixda.org/blog/2009/09/conan-project-update-implementation-phase-begins/
for the latest haps; and if you can, please consider volunteering to
help out
Hi folks,
The new Conan system website is going to provide a stand-alone Job
Board!! :)
Right now, job posts are definitely noise amid the discussion for
those uninterested in opportunities, but note that we explicitly allow
recruiters to post. They are moderated just like other posters,
Yes, folks, of course the Job Board postings will still have email
notification RSS feed options. They are tremendously valuable for
those who want to see them, whether you're actively job hunting or
not; they're just noise among the discussion for those that *don't*
want them, like I
Dear IxDA,
I want to thank everybody who stepped up to participate in the recent
round of feedback on the design concepts presented for IxDA Conan, our
website redesign project. In addition to the members of the Conan team
themselves, about 60 IxDA members asked to review designs in the
Hi Jackson,
The public feedback period on the concepts just closed today. Sorry
you missed the earlier post 40 replies:
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=43460#43460
I'm guessing you're a non-email-receiving member. Outside email,
our current communication channels are woefully inadequate
Job posts to this list are required to place the location of the
position in the subject line. Please see: http://www.ixda.org/about_guidelines.php
, section: Posting Job Listings.
Cheers,
Liz
On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Erica Brown-Myrie wrote:
IndustryNext is looking for an
Hi folks,
Thanks to all those who've volunteered to contribute feedback on
these design proposals for Conan. We can't do it without your help!
While there has been a fair bit of commenting on the first couple
parts of the material (the visual design, the discussion forum and
local groups),
Hi Himanshu,
Just wondering...did you search the discussion archives before
posting?
Cheers,
Liz
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http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43421
Dear IxDA community those who care about us,
Firstly, THANK YOU again to all the IxDA supporters from around the
globe who contributed financially during our recent fundraising
drive. IxDA garnered $15,813, over half-way towards our ambitious
goal of $30,000 to support the IxDA.org website
Hi Nathaniel,
Thanks for your note! I'm not sure I understand all of your points,
but it's actually a cornerstone of the Conan project strategy to
utilize IxDA members ( those who love them) to create the
interaction design as well as graphic design solutions for the new
website.
The Conan
Dear IxDA community,
I want to add my voice here with a major THANK YOU! I literally got
chills just now reading how much support you contributed to our
infrastructure effort. You have enabled us to move forward with
confidence knowing that the organization will be sustained in the near-
Dear IxDA community,
Today I add my voice the chorus of people donating a chunk of change
to IxDA. I'm presently IxDA Vice-President and Creative Director of
the website re-design project for which we are raising funds, but
I'm also emphatically one of you. I'm a passionate advocate for the
power
Hi folks,
Thanks, Gilberto, for thinking about our best interests. Let me give
the group some more background. This project, code-named IxDA Conan,
was launched over six months ago with a call for volunteer
contributions. We also put out a call for support in the
groups.drupal.org
Y'all need to see my round-up of remote usability testing tools, which
I posted published here on the list some weeks ago:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pc-NAeDLmYFveCRlIejNuFAhl=en
And I'll add a quick request for folks to try searching for some
information on the Discussion list
The IxDA SF event was held at Adobe (an excellent meeting venue and
generous spread) and the evening concluded with a lengthy Catalyst
demo from a key guy on their team. I'm spacing his name but he's in
one of their online demo vids as well. Anyways, afterwards, I
corralled him and said
Hi folks,
A member of the IxDA Conan team has created a short survey to garner
community feedback on the discussion forums feature of the upcoming
new website. Please take a minute to visit and respond:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hjwiSttjLzl44qS7pR_2bVuQ_3d_3d
Thanks for your
Hi folks,
Firstly, a reminder that today is the last day for potential vendors
to submit questions about the RFP. We aim to post answers to all
questions we receive by May 31st at the http://board.ixda.org blog.
To respond to a couple folks here poking at our rationale for
selecting Drupal,
I have a different perspective on the ProtoFarm event than Julie,
which I was fortunate to attend last night as well as being myself a
presenter, like her.
For my part, I don't see much value in watching people show off their
prototype all by itself. Without knowing the context behind the
The IxDA Conan team has published a request for proposal (RFP) in
order to engage with an experienced Drupal development partner for
the redesign of the IxDA.org website.
For more information on responding, please refer to the page
http://www.devise.com/ixda/index.html, where you will find the
Hi folks,
Dan Brown's company, EightShapes, has provided the user experience
community with an actual set of deliverable templates. It's an
inspiring example of sharing best practices and concrete work output.
See:
http://unify.eightshapes.com/
EightShapes Unify is a collection of templates,
What great input! Please keep it coming...IxDA is the organization
that we make together! We'd especially love to hear from recruiters
or other people who've posted jobs on IxD Discuss in the past.
Best,
Liz, IxDA Vice-President Conan Creative Director
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Dear IxDA members,
If you're passionate about what you do for a living and want to help
improve the world, please consider joining the global leadership team
of the Interaction Design Association. IxDA works to help advance the
profession of interaction design in a fast-paced world which needs
Hi Julie,
You'll want to run out and get Luke Wroblewski's Web Form Design
book, and scan send out parts of Chapter 13 on Gradual Engagement.
Fantastic stuff about working to eliminate monolithic registration
forms in favor of progressive sign-up steps that serve user's
immediate goals.
I support Dev in suggesting the ellipsis ... to differentiate
related controls where the difference is that one acts immediately
and the other requires confirmation. A confirmation of a delete is
technically a dialog box, although a lightweight one, and the
ellipses is a convention here. Delete
Hiya folks,
Firstly, thanks to those who contributed to two recent threads here
about remote usability testing systems! I happen to be shopping for a
solution myself, and so I did a big round-up of the offerings that I
could discover. See:
Hi IxDA LA,
Sounds like a rocking event -- wish I could attend! I'm compelled to
comment here because it's exactly the theme of a presentation that
Steve Calde and I did together in Portland last year, which we also
presented as a webinar thru Catalyze. The talk was called Death to
Personas! Long
Hey folks,
For the record, I do not sense plagiarism here. It's a natural
dialetic. Personas are a valuable and powerful tool yet they are
sometimes seen as controversial, for various reasons. I first worked
with Adam Korman at Cooper, where personas as practiced today were
invented, so I'm
Hi folks,
Thanks for the great feedback on my UX sundial model! I have adjusted
the components. And with Jack Moffett's encouragement I also have
added a zoomed-in view of an IxD sundial of skills (For the
record, I am a very busy person with lots of design work on my plate,
but I feel
Hey folks,
Hope I'm not beating a dead horse here (whinny!) but I would be
glad for feedback on this sundial model of the UX fields that I put
together. See
http://ebacon.posterous.com/fields-of-user-experience-sundial-model
It occurs to me that this model could be a way of presenting IxD
along
Hi guys,
So here's my take on IA and IxD, and it's a unifying one that I
think represents more of the majority opinion. Of course, pipe up if
you think I'm wrong. :)
Information Architecture looks through the lens of product design
with a focus on structure, on the space side of the space-time
Hi Angel,
Of course, I'm happy to respond. I didn't want to spend time to
mention that these forums would work seamlessly with email; we'll
provide support for people of their delivery preference. We know many
want to keep IxDA Discussion as an email interaction. Think of it
operating more like
Hi folks,
I read the transcript of JJG's keynote with a combination of
admiration and dismay -- certainly I was eager to consume the facts
after seeing the Twitter firestorm.
I admire his call for people to come together from the various UX
communities. Personally, I strongly agree that a
Carl,
Did you read the definitions on the page that Adam pointed you to?
You have been citing an outdated definition with all the harping on
the dialogs word.
Our home page says: Interaction Design (IxD) defines the structure
and behavior of interactive products and services. Interaction
Hi folks,
If, as Dan says, the IxDA has failed one of its core missions...:
creating tools to help interaction designers promote our value to our
organizations and those who don't know anything about us then it's
because this issue has not previously risen to the level of critical
need. We
Hi Scott, et al.,
Damn straight this is the kind of resource IxDA should be presenting
to the world! Would you like to create it? Would you like to form a
little team to create it? IxDA would be extremely glad to offer an
online repository where it can reside. Our next-generation website
will
Hi IxDA members,
I have posted the IxDA Conan release plan document on our Board Blog.
This explains our decision-making some more, and also presents the
design targets for the first releases of our new infrastructure. See
http://board.ixda.org/node/12
Please do visit the blog, and send in your
Um, yeah, there's an IxDA Board blog since a couple months ago.
Didn't you notice the little Board Blog link on the About page?
;)
So, right. We need entirely new infrastructure upon which to build
IxDA.org. :) It has been a long time coming now, and we're excited
to be joining the 21st century.
Hi folks,
I want to share the news that our IxDA infrastructure initiative has
selected Drupal to provide the technical platform for our website
redesign project.
For more on this decision, please see:
http://board.ixda.org/node/11
Cheers,
Liz
Hi folks,
I want also to publicly thank IxDA Conan team members Amanda and also
Maria de Monte who put a lot of effort into creating a presentable
version of the survey results. (SurveyMonkey is ridiculously hard to
use when it comes to analyzing and collating free-text responses,
although I've
Hello IxDA Members,
This message is a progress report from the IxDA Conan infrastructure
team to share the results from our recent survey about IxDA.org which
we conducted at the start of February. Please visit the IxDA Board
Blog at: http://board.ixda.org/node/9 for more information and
Hey folks,
Sorry -- I just wanted to say that I'm super incredibly busy with
another IxDA initiative right now (in addition to N other things) --
so if you wrote me off-list about this topic were waiting for a
response or if people were waiting for me personally to try and get
something up and
Hi folks,
I'm enjoying this thread very much, albeit dismayed at the lack of
cited women too. (Anybody see Maren Costa's work at Amazon at DUX
2005?)
Anyways, I wanted to let folks know that the IxDA Board is playing
around with the idea of creating an IxD timeline that would allow
IxDA members
I'm so excited about the productive energy here! This thread *is* the
best example of beginning a new endeavor in this space.
Nasir, Dave and I are on the Conan infrastructure project which has
an explicit goal of being able to support or nurture or otherwise
account for the existence of OSS-IxD
Last chance to take the IxDA.org survey, dear IxDA members. If you're
passionate about IxD, help us define and deliver a better website that
will serve our community's needs as well as facilitate our delivering
more goodness in the world! :)
To take the survey, visit:
GAH! Case of need in point...copying and pasting a link within the
current website seems to have broken it. Here's the survey link
again...
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=pw5AkMGBKqzIZon_2bCG_2fa5Q_3d_3d
I hope? ;P
Cheers,
Liz
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I haven't really been following this thread, but given how it started
I wanted to throw out something from Interaction'09... Christina
Wodtke presented the following formula in her session talk, The
Viral App:
B = f (P, E)
Where B is behavior, P is person and E is environment.
Not sure if it's
Tom, et al.,
I'm really excited to say that IxDA may be able to support and aid
you in your others efforts to connect with the Open Source movement
and community.
Several IxDA board members met with Aza Raskin of Mozilla at the
Interaction'09 conference to discuss how we could work together
Hi there,
Yesterday I happened to stumble on this report on Tagging from the
good folks at Pew Internet:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/201/report_display.asp
Cheers,
Liz
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Posted from the new ixda.org
Hi Jim,
If you have a second, I have a question about your experience of RED.
To what extent do you your team utilize scenarios as a rapid
prototyping tool?
Question also extended to Yury and others who've practiced or do
practice the RED approach.
Cheers,
Liz
P.S. My bias is that
Dear IxDA members,
I'm pleased to provide a progress report on the Infrastructure
initiative. This project, for which I am the project manager, aims to
significantly update the IxDA.org website, most particularly in the
areas of local groups, an events calendar, member profiles and
improved
Hi Todd,
FYI, you probably have 4-6 entries from me because the page doesn't
do anything when you click Done. (Using Firefox on Mac.) I also
wanted to leave some fields blank but thought that they were
preventing form submission so I changed them all to 0's.
Cheers,
Liz
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I'm so excited for the conference! Such a great line-up of speakers,
as well as activities for us to come together as individuals and make
our community stronger.
I also wanted to remind folks from the U.S. who are attending the
conference that this is an INTERNATIONAL venue. So, please check
Hi Steve, et al.,
I wanted to let you know that Education is one of the areas that IxDA
is presently targeting with a team of volunteers.
Jeremy Yuille is presently heading up the effort on behalf of the
IxDA Board, and there are a couple dozen IxDA members who are
contributing. One of the
Heya,
Thanks to @mediajunkie, I just read a good article on education from
a web designer perspective. It mentions IxDA's efforts as well as a
variety of other organizations. See:
http://alistapart.com/articles/brighterhorizonsforwebeducation
In keeping with the theme of my previous post and
Let's all help kill the mouse! I'm OK with keeping the keyboard for
awhile, though. :)
Cheers,
Liz
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Posted from the new ixda.org
http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36725
Hi Min,
You can start your investigation by referring to this thread
regarding research suppliers in the Bay Area.
http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=34082#34082
Cheers,
Liz
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Posted from the new ixda.org
Hi Rich,
We leveraged those personas from a set created by the IxDA Board back
in 2006, before my time on the Board. They're not particularly
expertly documented. We'll be whipping our deliverables into
shape as we go...forward progress has generally been more important
than formality over these
Dear IxDA Members,
I’m pleased to be re-launching an initiative dedicated to delivering
next-generation infrastructure for IxDA.org.
If you’re an avid IxDA list reader, you may have seen mention of this
infrastructure initiative over the past few months. Nasir Barday,
another IxDA
Dear IxDA Members,
We are very happy to announce the IxDA Board of Directors for 2009
with the addition of three new Directors. Please welcome Amyris
Fernandez, Jon Kolko and Kevin Silver. We look forward to their
contributions to the Board and the efforts they will catalyze for our
I totally agree with Josh's recent point. Mea culpa; it was lazy
writing for me to say that persona creation is relatively
scientific. What I meant to say was that the persona creation
process at its methodological origins involves a rigorous,
repeatable, analytical approach to research data. That
Hi Michael, et al,
I helped formalize persona creation methods while I was at Cooper,
and I recently spoke on the subject of some common persona
misconceptions with a current Cooperista, Steve Calde. Please see
http://www.devise.com/further_reading and look to the bottom of the
page for an
Hi Diego,
What exactly is a PC Suite? A quick Google search seems to indicate
it's a software service to connect your phone to your computer, so
it sounds very engineering-oriented. Perhaps providing some more
context or asking a less technical question might help you elicit
responses.
Cheers,
Hiya,
Folks interested in this topic might like to read Lane Halley's
recent journal post at http://tinyurl.com/5t6m4y. She makes some
really coherent points there, IMHO!
Also, I thought that Alan Cooper's keynote presented at the Agile
2008 conference was pretty ground-breaking. And it may well
Hi Ali,
I'll second Dave's recommendation. Many IxD's I know love
started their careers as technical writers. It *is* a role with
creative potential, at least visually if not content-wise. Most
especially, it offers the opportunity to analyze the form behavior
of systems and ensure that the
I've been considering the issue of Agile IxD for awhile now, and I
recently had a really great project experience integrating my design
process with an Agile XP team. Some quick takeaways:
* as you suggest, Jessica, defining the interaction design framework
(or overall IA structure or whatever
Dear heavens.
OK, guys, if we're going to out ourselves...I will reveal that I
fundamentally don't believe a crowdsourcing model for DESIGN is even
possible, much less advisable.
I believe that crowdsourcing can be helpful to garner ideas (e.g. that
wepc thing at the top of this thread),
thing the board has done for local groups is to
empower them to not wait for the board. Why not just take the same
tact with this project?
-- dave
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Elizabeth Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear heavens.
OK, guys, if we're going to out ourselves...I
Hi folks,
Back in July, I presented a webinar thru Catalyze called Death to
Personas! Long Live Personas! It recently came to my attention that
the QA material never got posted, and also my co-author Steve Calde
and I wanted to make the presentation more generally available.
So, I have
Hi folks!
IxDA Portland is having its bi-monthly F2F gathering tomorrow, October
21st at 6pm. Please see event details at: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/937574/
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Liz
Vice-President, IxDA / www.ixda.org
CDO, Devise /
Hey folks,
Thanks for all who wrote with research supplier recommendations. I
wanted to share all four for your future reference (see below). FWIW,
Fleischman responded to me promptly with a bid, as did Fieldwork; Bay
Area Research Group didn't get back to me as promised (and they have
to
Ack, my URLs seem to have been edited out. They were:
Fleischman Field Research
http://www.ffrsf.com/
Fieldwork
http://www.fieldwork.com/Facility/Home.aspx?FacilityID=33
Bay Area Research Group
http://bayarearesearchgroup.com/New Site/Welcome.html
Nichols Research
Hi folks!
Could you all recommend some research suppliers in or around Palo
Alto, California who'd be able to recruit participants for usability
testing as well as provide space to conduct it (one-way mirror, not
much else)? Your wisdom and recommendations greatly appreciated --
merci
Hi folks,
I wanted to add for the historical record that the IxD Discussion
list wasn't just born in 2005. It was born in mid-2003 as a Yahoo!
Groups list and migrated later that year to
www.interactiondesigners.com. Over the next two years, it became
known as the Interaction Design Group and
Hi there,
The IxDA leadership is acutely aware of the technical shortcomings of
our current infrastructure. Mea culpa; pretty ironic, indeed.
Several Board members are actively engaged in efforts to solidify our
requirements and identify appropriate next-generation solutions.
We'll (hopefully)
One aspect of previous and next that bears mention here is
that conceptually they could be considered a pair. If the design
situation calls for both regularly, it's sort of like the situation
with rewind play/pause and forward wherein they're
hardly even separate controls. (And of course time
I've used a quote from Paul Graham (an %u2028essayist, programmer and
language designer) in some of my recent presentations about IxD
practice. The quote is:
%u201CIdeas get developed by explaining them to the right kind of
person. You need that resistance, just as a carver needs the
resistance
As co-founder of a boutique design development consultancy, we have
various product ideas on the back burner that we can pursue to fill
up time between client projects and enhance our portfolio.
All I can say in this thread is that I'm abandoning any further work
on our time tracker
Dear friends,
Please get involved! I'm excited for IxDA to help the next
generation of designers and connect current practitioners to students
and those interested in expanding their knowledge. This list
membership is the most amazing resource in IxD!
Best,
Liz, IxDA Vice-President
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Hi folks,
Rather short notice, but if you're in Portland, Oregon this evening
then come out for some bowling fun
CHIFOO and IxDA Social Bowling!
Dig out that bowling shirt -- now you've got a place to wear it! Join
us at the second annual CHI-Bowl event. Take a whirl at bowling
Hi folks!
Hope everybody's July is going well! I always love reading people's
posts and marveling at the knowledge of our design community.
Right now I'm pimping some of my own stuff on the design research
side, letting you know that Steve Calde (long-time Cooper consultant)
and I
Hey there Jeff et al.,
The Board is tackling brand issues, including access to logos and
usage thereof, imminently. We'll make sure they're generally
available as we coordinate ourselves going forward. Thanks for
keeping them safe in the meantime, Luke!
Please also note that our organization,
I must see this commercial!! All I can say is that Elizabeth Baron,
Technical Specialist in Virtual Reality and Advanced Visualization at
Ford Motor Company, has the second-coolest name in our field.
Cheers,
Elizabeth Bacon
Hey there!
It's the IxDA Portland (that's Portland, Oregon, USA) Face-to-Face
gathering this Tuesday evening. Come out to rant, kvetch, engage and
connect with fellow Interaction Design practitioners and interested
parties. For real and for live, we'll network locally and get
inspired
Hi folks,
Education is a very important issue, and totally appropriate for IxDA
to tackle. As we mentioned at the end of our Board Retreat minutes
from Nov 2007 (see , the Board at that time did not have the capacity
to tackle such a major initiative as education. That's why we
asked people who
There are simply more jobs than IxDs right now. We're all engaged in
solving interesting problems, and the world is exploding with yet
more possibilities.
The fear I share with others is that we all face a serious
professional issue if unqualified folks fill IxD shoes and cause
industry
: Elizabeth Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: December 13, 2007 11:12:01 AM PST
To: Interaction_Designers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Seeking IxDA Board member candidates
Dear IxDA constituency,
{Apologies for re-posting but previous message lacked subject
line.} The IxDA Board is seeking energetic
It%u2019s so inspiring to read about people's journeys into the arena
of design! Thanks to all who've shared. Here's my story...
I have always been a designer, but did not know it for many years.
I've always drawn, and imagined things that did not exist, and tried
to make the world a more
P.P.P.S. Oh, yeah, and computers have always been a part of my life.
My dad was a Systems Analyst and just naturally adopted them at home.
We had an Atari and TI-99 when I was a kid, and Osborne, the first
portable computer (it went with us to China, and later went with
me to Stanford where it
Dear IxDA constituency,
The IxDA Board is seeking energetic, motivated candidates for several
open Board positions starting in early 2008. The Board comprises nine
volunteers. There are presently four executive positions: President,
Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, each of whom are
, Director,
and yours truly, Elizabeth Bacon, Director. The Board met in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on November 17-18, 2007. We
spent two full days in the conference room at the Executive Hotel in
Vintage Park.

Meeting for in-person discussion is an important annual event
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