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Please Stop Comparing NSA Spying with Marketing
One of the conversations I continue to see rising to the top of the NSA spying controversy is that companies are already collecting this kind of data on Americans for marketing efforts. For those outside the United States, the Constitution…
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Why You Can’t Just Copy Amazon
The team is still trying to settle down after this year's South By South West Interactive (SXSWi) conference in March. We all had a great time and learned a lot about the interactive community and what is coming next. There…
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Looking for a Second Opinion? A Hundred?
There was quite a firestorm when I promoted utilizing crowdSPRING . Those in the design community who I respect so much though it was a bit hypocritical to appreciate crowdSPRING and other spec systems like 99designs , while advocating hiring…
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Web Site Story
CollegeHumor’s Web Site Story takes something almost everyone in digital work has lived through—the slow-motion chaos of building a website—and turns it into a full-on musical. It’s funny right away because it’s familiar. The kickoff starts with big dreams and…
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Avoiding the Featuritis Trap: How to Prioritize Features and Reduce Creep for Happy Users
In their insightful blog post Features vs. Benefits from the Creating Passionate Users blog, software designer and author Kathy Sierra astutely breaks down the perils of "featuritis" - the tendency of products to accumulate more and more features to the…
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Never Lose Sight of Who Pays You
Sometimes, we forget that our customers ultimately pay us. Look, I feel bad for my friends and colleagues at GM. But I don't feel sorry for them. They forgot design, they forgot the customer, they forgot R&D , they forgot…