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Category: Process and Methods

Simplify your work and your life by learning the tools and techniques that authors have used to conquered gnarly problem spaces. From avoiding burnout to doing scrappy research on a shoestring budget, you’ll benefit from their experience, avoid making the mistakes they made, and go on to make all new mistakes of your own. (Then contribute your learnings back to us!)

March 17, 2015 Design Principles / Discovery, Research, and Testing

Creativity Must Guide the Data-Driven Design Process

Posted by Rameet Chawla

Collecting data about design is easy in the digital world. We no longer have to conduct in-person experiments to track pedestrians’ behavior in an airport terminal or the movement of eyeballs across a page. New digital technologies allow us to

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March 10, 2015 Discovery, Research, and Testing / Process and Methods

A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 3

Posted by Charles Shimooka

Web site optimization has become an essential capability in today’s conversion-driven web teams. In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the topic as well as discussed key goals and philosophies. In Part 2, I presented a detailed and customizable process. In this final

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March 3, 2015 Design Principles / Process and Methods

Mystical Guidelines for Creating Great User Experiences

Posted by Tal Bloom

The Jewish Torah teaches that the Creator created our world through ten utterances–for example, “let there be light.” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the

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February 3, 2015 Discovery, Research, and Testing / Process and Methods

A Beginner’s Guide to Web Site Optimization—Part 2

Posted by Charles Shimooka

In the previous article we talked about why site optimization is important and presented a few important goals and philosophies to impart on your team. I’d like to switch gears now and talk about more tactical stuff, namely, process. Optimization process Establishing a well-formed, formal

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January 20, 2015 Learning From Others / Process and Methods

Enhancing the Mind-Meld

Posted by Mark Richman

Which version of the ‘suspended account’ dashboard page do you prefer? Version A       Version B     Perhaps you don’t really care. Each one gets the job done in a clear and obvious way. However, as the

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