Thanks for the sharing from this conference. I loathe the word “user” too- it’s dehumanizing and makes people sound like test subjects, and often try to use “participant” more in my mix open courses rather than student. I loved that statement in their kit about “If you are not designing for a person, you are designing for no one”

And I dig Spurious Correlations- I thought I had used it, but especially like that he web version is connected to the data and can be explored (maybe in some combination with Gapminder). I might use it as a creative activity to create the story or an image that represents the correlation.