Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
march 2009 by uggedal
This all leads me to hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups -- as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups, such as villages -- hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is best around 45-50.
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march 2009 by uggedal
50 Designers x 6 Questions | Developer's Toolbox
september 2007 by uggedal
Watch a few people using a competing or similar service to the one you’re designing. Users have an infinite capability to astound you with unexpected behaviors that will give you ideas for things to do on your own project. - Jakob Nielsen
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