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It’s not what you sell, it’s what you believe (Bill Taylor)
Bill Taylor, in Harvard Business Review (April 2012), starting from Adam Lashinsky's book Inside Apple and from a story about Tim Cook: companies create …
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Don’t build a paywall, create a velvet rope instead
GigaOM (March 2012): as newspapers copy the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, a paywall is not the only option. Like a velvet rope rather than a …
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Habits are the new viral (Nir Eyal)
Nir Eyal, in TechCrunch (February 2012): the value of web businesses increasingly depends on the habits of their users. Early media companies sold …
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12 things you were not taught in school about creative thinking
Michael Michalko lists twelve ideas about creativity that school does not teach, starting with the first: you are creative. The difference between …
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The only three true job interview questions
George Bradt, in Forbes (2011), drawing on top executive recruiters: every interview question is a variant of three. Can you do the job? That is about …
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The Etsy saga: from silos to billions of pageviews
High Scalability recounts Ross Snyder's talk at Surge 2011: how Etsy went from a raw startup in 2005 to one struggling with its success in 2007, the …
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Visualize your business model in 15 minutes flat
A short IDEO video made for HackFwd: how to draw your business model in fifteen minutes to make it clear and share it.
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The psychologist’s view of UX design
Susan Weinschenk, psychologist and cognitive scientist, explains in UX Magazine how her science informs design: like the blind men describing an elephant …
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Why users fill out forms faster with top-aligned labels
UX Movement: labels placed above the fields make forms faster and easier to fill in than labels on the left or right, because the eye moves in one …
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16 pixels for body copy
Smashing Magazine (2011): readership means revenue, and most web users find the « normal » small font sizes hard to read. Letting users zoom is not …