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July 3, 2014
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Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows | Smashing UX Design
For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by our…
June 30, 2014
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COC: A new metric for thinking about cancellations in SaaS business models — blog.asmartbear.com — Readability
This is the second article in a series on novel ideas for SaaS metrics, which started with The unprofitable SaaS business model trap . You’ve probably know that cancellations kill growth in scaling SaaS companies. You probably know this is because as you get large it’s hard to continue growing fast…
June 27, 2014
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Why cards are the future of the web | Inside Intercom
Cards are fast becoming the best design pattern for mobile devices. We are currently witnessing a re-architecture of the web, away from pages and destinations, towards completely personalised experiences built on an aggregation of many individual pieces of content. Content being broken down into…
June 24, 2014
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Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc. | Information Architects
Logo, Bullshit & Co., Inc. Essay 05 September 2013 Everybody likes logos. Everybody wants their own logo. Everybody wants to make their own logo. Everybody has a computer and some fonts. Anybody can make a logo. What makes designers think they are so special? Anybody can make a logo. No doubt. It’s…
June 21, 2014
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The Author of Cloud Atlas on Autism, His Son, and the Japanese Teen Who Inspired Him
The following is David Mitchell’s introduction to The Reason I Jump , by Naoki Higashida, out now from Random House. Naoki Higashida. Photo courtesy of Miki Higashida The 13-year-old author of The Reason I Jump invites you, his reader, to imagine a daily life in which your faculty of speech is taken…
June 18, 2014
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The obesity era
As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice. The problem may be bigger than any of us
June 15, 2014
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Mobile Opportunity: Google Logic: Why Google Does the Things it Does
“What does Google want?” A favorite pastime among people who watch the tech industry is trying to figure out why Google does things. The Verge was downright plaintive about it the other day ( link ), and I get the question frequently from financial analysts and reporters. But the topic also comes up…
June 12, 2014
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Apple and the Innovator’s Dilemma | stratēchery by Ben Thompson
This paper was originally written in 2010 for a Corporate Innovation class at Kellogg; please forgive any formatting errors carried over in the conversion from PDF, as well as the excessive footnotes! Apple’s unbroken string of success seems to suggest it is impervious to the Innovator’s Dilemma.…
June 9, 2014
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Book Excerpt: Why We Fail | UX Magazine
According to Bill Buxton, the pioneer computer scientist and designer , there’s a difference between “getting the design right and getting the right design.” To get a design right, we can test it with customers and integrate their feedback by altering the design. But how do we know that what we…
June 6, 2014
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Scrum-ban | Lean Software Engineering
As more people become interested in Lean ideas and their application to knowledge work and project management, it’s helpful to find ways that make it easier to get started or learn a few basic concepts that can lead to deeper insights later. For those that are curious about kanban in an office…
June 3, 2014
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Authentic Design | Smashing Magazine
The recently popularized “flat” interface style is not merely a trend. It is the manifestation of a desire for greater authenticity in design, a desire to curb visual excess and eliminate the fake and the superfluous. In creating new opportunities, technological progress sometimes leads to areas of…
May 31, 2014
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Measure twice, cut once
Measure twice, cut once What you remove is as important as what you add When Blogger turned ten years old in 2009, only seven websites in the world received more traffic. Its combination of free hosting, rock-solid uptime , and simple interface made it a popular choice for bloggers around the world.…
May 28, 2014
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Exclusive Speaker Interview with Scott Allan, Director, Ting
Exclusive Speaker Interview with Scott Allan, Director, Ting #MVNOIS http://t.co/kiJhx7VhHV
May 25, 2014
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Clay Johnson on creative technologists, designing with empathy and news as a community service | Knight Lab | Northwestern University
The Lab’s profiles are Q&As with smart people who are shaping the future of media. Follow the series . In many ways, Clay Johnson is a force of nature. He is best known as the co-founder of Blue State Digital , his book — “The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption” — and as a…
May 22, 2014
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The most important thing to do when training your team | Ben Lucier
Do you manage a growing team? Are you struggling to keep them informed and trained? One of the most powerful things I learned is to start with an assessment, by creating scenario-based multiple choice questions, based on observed training opportunities and work backwards from there. By creating the…
May 19, 2014
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Kanban development oversimplified: a simple explanation of how Kanban adds to the ever-growing Agile toolkit
How Kanban-style development gives us another way to deliver on Agile values Years ago — Feb 25th 2008 to be exact — I wrote this draft article. At the time Kanban development was a cool new thing — bleeding edge Agile. Due to a series of unfortunate events the article wasn’t published in the…
May 16, 2014
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Buyer Beware, Rhetor Beware
My mobile phone service provider Ting tweeted about an endorsement they received on reddit recently. Commericial rhetoric often serves as classroom fodder for analysis of manipulative persuasive techniques, but the reddit discussion demonstrates some different problems that arise in a context where…
May 13, 2014
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The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational
The human brain is capable of 10 16 processes per second , which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less…
May 10, 2014
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Predicting the future: Strata 2014 hot topics – O’Reilly Radar
Conferences like Strata are planned a year in advance. The logistics and coordination required for an event of this magnitude takes a lot of planning, but it also takes a decent amount of prediction: Strata needs to skate to where the puck is going . While Strata New York + Hadoop World 2013 is…
May 7, 2014
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Vital Elements of the Product Design Process – (Ryan Singer)
Vital Elements of the Product Design Process by Ryan Singer (@rjs) This article was originally posted to Feltpresence.com in August 2013. Product design can look like magic. When I started doing it ten years ago, the small team I worked on made decisions intuitively. There was no system and it…
May 4, 2014
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Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think | TechCrunch
Editor’s Note: David Lieb is co-founder and CEO of Bump , creators of the popular app that lets people share contact information, photos, and other content by bumping their phones together. Bump has been downloaded more than 130 million times. It’s been hard to ignore the massive shift in the last…
May 1, 2014
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Who edited Shakespeare?
Home sweet home … an ice-cream van in Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford upon Avon. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Europe S ometime in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death, the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell published Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &…
April 28, 2014
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Dusting ‘Em Off: Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
In this weeks edition of Dusting Em Off, staff writers Henry Hauser and Bryant Kitching revisit Bruce Springsteen’ s dark and intimate 1982 sixth album, Nebraska . The two discuss its role in Springsteen’s disocgraphy, the stories behind the songs, the production style, and whether or not the New…
April 25, 2014
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Only Nic Forgives: Gilchrist Talks Style And The Future With Refn « Movie City News
By Other Voices [email protected] Posted Friday, July 26th, 2013 – 3 Comments » Only Nic Forgives: Gilchrist Talks Style And The Future With Refn By Todd Gilchrist Only God Forgives is the story of an American expatriate turned drug dealer, played by Ryan Gosling, who finds himself in a…
April 22, 2014
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Why Founders Fail: The Product CEO Paradox | TechCrunch
Editor’s note: Ben Horowitz is co-founder and partner of Andreessen Horowitz . He was co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP, and ran several product divisions at Netscape. He serves on the board of companies such as Capriza, Foursquare, Jawbone, Lytro, Magnet,…
April 19, 2014
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Science is not the Enemy of the Humanities | New Republic
The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists. Not only did many of them contribute to mathematics, physics, and physiology, but all of them were avid theorists in the sciences of human nature. They were cognitive neuroscientists, who tried to explain thought and…
April 16, 2014
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Online news hasn’t killed newspapers.
The sign at the Washington Post on Aug. 6, 2013, the day after it was announced that Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos had agreed to purchase the paper for $250 million Photo by KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images Hearing some coverage of the Washington Post ‘s sale on radio and television over the…
April 13, 2014
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Everything you were afraid to ask about “Donnie Darko”
1000 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds ago, Donnie Darko flopped. “Darko,” 26-year-old writer-director Richard Kelly’s first film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze, came out on October 26, 2001. In the hypersensitive aftermath of Sept. 11, the film’s…
April 10, 2014
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How to Fund Transit Without Raising Fares or Cutting Service – Eric Jaffe – The Atlantic Cities
Shutterstock Mark Aesch brings a private-sector mindset to public transportation — and so far it’s working. When Mark Aesch became head of the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, back in 2004, the metro area’s bus system was in terrible shape. The agency carried a $4.5 million…
April 7, 2014
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CONTRARY BRIN: Names of infamy. Deny killers the notoriety they seek
Now it’s “James Eagan Holmes,” another name we’d rather not know. Opening fire at a crowded Colorado movie theater during a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," Holmes killed twelve and injured dozens — seizing world attention and far more than his fair share of our collective memories.…