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Dan Brown is an Information Architect (IA) and one of the two co-founders of EightShapes, a Washington, DC design agency. His expertise focuses on front-end design work and helping product and design teams perform the discovery process around their products. His latest book is Practical Design Discovery. Lately, Dan has been working on a tool involving IA lenses to allow designers to challenge themselves.