How do you use your toilet paper? Are you a folder? A wrapper? A scruncher? We’re betting it’s the later. But what does it say about you as an individual, and why does it matter anyway? Deana McDonagh discusses why you can’t design anything for someone if you don’t understand them first, and how creating empathetic products changes
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