Want to be great at UX research? Take a cue from cultural anthropology.

<p><a href="https://hash.ai/">HASH</a>, where Maggie works along with Stack Overflow cofounder <a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/">Joel Spolsky</a>, is an open-core platform for creating simulations that help people make better decisions.</p><p><a href="https://maggieappleton.com/essays">Explore Maggie’s writing</a> on everything from <a href="https://maggieappleton.com/digital-anthropology">digital anthropology</a> to best practices for <a href="https://maggieappleton.com/drawinginvisibles1">illustrating invisible programming concepts</a>.</p><p>Maggie recommends the <a href="https://www.nngroup.com/">Nielsen Norman Group website</a> as the best resource for folks getting up to speed on research-based UX.</p><p>Today’s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/8842/lifeboat">Lifeboat badge</a> goes to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/806326/sten">Sten</a> for their answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15985996/detecting-transparency-in-an-image">Detecting transparency in an image</a>.</p>