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How To Profit From Selling Digital Products (Part 1)
At the end of 2012, I was talking with a good friend of mine who runs a small custom woodworking company. We were discussing business over the last year and a few things we learned. While his...
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How To Profit From Selling Digital Products (Part 2)
This is the second and final article on how to sell and profit from digital products. In part 1, we covered many of the benefits of digital products over physical goods as well as the marketing...
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Selling The Value Of The Web To Small-Town Clients
Selling your services as a freelancer or a small shop is tough enough as it is. Selling to a small-town business that might not even see the need for a website adds an extra level of difficulty in...
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Learning More About Creativity And Innovation From LEGO
Many companies and design agencies tend to look at the design and creativity stage from a narrow perspective. Usually, the design team is locked inside the ideas room with no contact with the rest of...
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Targeting Mobile Users Through Google AdWords
“Know your audience” has stood as a fundamental marketing principle since long before the web. When advertising online, you need to take into account one of the most basic factors of the audience you...
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Dropbox’s Carousel Design Deconstructed (Part 1)
Many of today’s hottest technology companies, both large and small, are increasingly using the concept of the minimum viable product (MVP) as way to iteratively learn about their customers and...
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Internal Developer Training: Doing It Right
Successful developers all have something in common: the desire to create. To fully realize that creativity, they need to continually improve their skills. The web industry has grown from this desire...
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Dropbox’s Carousel Design Deconstructed (Part 2)
Many of today’s hottest technology companies, both large and small, are increasingly using the concept of the minimum viable product (MVP) as way to iteratively learn about their customers and...
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Are Your Internal Systems Damaging Your Business?
The internal systems of many organizations have shocking user interfaces. This costs companies in productivity, training and even the customer experience. Fortunately, we can fix this. "How come I...
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Why Companies Need Full-Time Product Managers (And What They Do All Day)
What is a product manager? What do product managers do all day? Most importantly, why do companies need to hire them? Good questions. Well, the first confusion we have to clear up is what we mean by...
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Prototyping For Better Products, Stronger Teams And Happier Clients
As mobile designers, we have a stark decision to make: do we spend time learning new tools and changing our design processes to create our own transitional interfaces, or are the tools that we've...
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How A Designer Can Find A Job They Will Truly Love
There comes a time in nearly everyone’s career when changing jobs is the natural next step. As a designer, you might start looking for a new job when you feel you have hit a wall with your current...
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Why You Should Include Your Developer In The Design Process
Should designers be able to code? This topic never seems to die, with its endless blog posts, Twitter discussions and conference talks. But the developer’s involvement in the design process seems to...
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Designing With Your Clients
We have all known the pain of a client interfering in the design process. Phrases like “Make the logo bigger” and “Put that above the fold” have become a running joke in the web design community. It...
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Lessons Learned Building A Productized Service
It’s been three years since I launched my productized service. And, boy, did I do a lot of things wrong! But I’m glad I did. If it weren’t for the many mistakes I’ve learned from and lessons I’ve...
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How And Why To Make Side Projects Work At A Digital Agency
It’s no secret that the digital industry is booming. From exciting startups to global brands, companies are reaching out to digital agencies, responding to the new possibilities available. However,...
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How To Become A UX Leader
Let’s say you run a UX team. Better yet, let’s say you don’t. Let’s say you just want to do great work. You’re a consultant. You’re a newbie. You’re an intern. Your position is irrelevant. So is your...
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Designers And Developers: No Longer A House Divided
As the web continues to evolve at a breakneck, Moore’s-law pace, the divisions between traditional design and development are increasingly shifting. The “learn to code” movement is also gaining...
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Think Fast! Using Heuristics To Increase Use Of Your Product
People have many tough decisions to make; whether they should use your application or website to accomplish a task shouldn’t be one of them. Your design team can take advantage of our knowledge of...
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So You Want To Crowdfund Your Startup App?
If you're a developer, you know how hard funding and traction are to come by. Most software startups try crowdfunding and fail — they're doing it wrong! To crowdfund your app, and supercharge your...
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