While on maternity leave, I expected to take a break from my job as a UX designer, but found that I couldn’t get away. Watching my young son learn basic human skills became a study in human interaction, one that led me to new insights into designing digital experiences for adults. Because babies are all about interfaces. A fascinating thing about newborns: They’ve spent nine months gestating in an environment where everything was provided for them — full nutrition, a steady temperature, their waste products removed. And yet from the moment they are born, they are transformed into what could…

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