crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 26, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Ten Questions You should be Asking to Produce the Killer Design Clients Crave – [link]. Huge Infographics Design Resources: Overview, Principles, Tips & Examples – [link].

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sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Subscribe: RSS Feed. Guide to Website Navigation Design Patterns. In web design, there are certain common design patterns that are used for interaction. Site navigation has a wide variety of common and familiar design patterns that can be used as a foundation for building effective information architecture for a website.

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Design Vertical Architecture Search 83

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Web Design. Design Patterns. UI Design. UX Study The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012. A year ago we published an article on 11 fundamental guidelines for e-commerce checkout design here at Smashing Magazine. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices. Portfolio Design Study: Design Patterns.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2017

Besides sharing your hours of business, wine selections, and menu, your app could also load your existing RSS feed to display fresh specials every day. Why Simplicity Matters.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I like the Kanban board design for project management, which makes it easy to organize tasks by what stage of completion they’re in. Feedly : “With this year’s death of Google Reader, us die-hard RSS fans needed a replacement and Feedly surfaced as not only a viable alternative, but as a truly better RSS solution.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

An interesting phenomena of the 1920s that illustrates the fragility and cost of vacuum tubes is the “Reflex Receiver&# design methodology. This is an innovative but slightly bizarre design technique common to the 1920s and 1930s that conserved the number of vacuum tubes required for a radio receiver.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

How we’ve designed and started to scale the sales team. Keep that RSS reader enabled. How we think about the many facets of marketing: branding, positioning, events, advertising, and special projects we haven’t announced yet. All that said, I do have more to share. Which brings up the final point.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

→ Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Professional and elegant designs from a paper craftsman.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you need to provide RSS? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Do you have a payment gateway?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you need to provide RSS? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Do you have a payment gateway?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

We hired a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Duke who had worked on helicopter design. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. At the time this was a pretty controversial decision. These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types. Years later he would become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital.) Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. It has to be little-endian or we won’t design your chip into our systems.” The reaction from the chip circuit design guys was, “OK, we could do that. What a great idea.

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dallasbass.com

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

5 Reasons Why Responsive Design is Absolutely Worth It. The title of the post is “ 5 Reasons Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It ” and surprisingly, it wasn’t satire. It was a completely genuine article explaining why websites shouldn’t incorporate responsive design. Dallas Bass. thisisdallas.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 26, 2019

[ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Stitcher | Spotify | Raw RSS ] About eight years ago I was out in my old neighborhood in West End, Brisbane, at a lounge-bar called ‘The End’ At the door to enter the lounge was a friendly lady named Christina, who was checking IDs and […].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design. After you’ve added a ton of new features and stuck them all on the homepage, you create Product Design debt. Arguably, MySpace is a company that never paid down their product design debt, and their traffic has been impacted as a result.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Making social persuasion a part of the very way a website is designed is a more recent idea. Placing your social and RSS numbers in prominent places. Social persuasion isn’t new – websites have promoted their websites on Facebook and Twitter for years now. Their attempts have mainly been aimed at promoting existing websites, though.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000. So our people in the field could correct any egregious design advice I gave to customers who mattered. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile my partner was in heaven working with his newly hired group of game designers directing and producing our first games. Stop annoying our game designers and start working on selling and marketing the games.” Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I know what’s great and what’s not. They think we’re brilliant.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This episode’s Micropreneur is Ruben Gamez who recently launched online design proposal software Bidsketch. == Rob: Thanks for your time today, Ruben. Ruben: Bidsketch is a web based proposal application made for designers. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Education program must emphasize the need to start with customer needs and design your entire product development strategy around a customer development blueprint, as you put it so very well. when we were first building Genlighten, I might have uncovered these design issues during the Customer Development process. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Because of the vagaries of how floating point units in computers were designed, your average IBM mainframe of the day would take forever to run a simulation application. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. A supercomputer could be a 100x faster. What Markets? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

Silicon Valley 147

Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 147

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

the “schedule fantasy factor,”) or his eleven rules of supercomputer design but also a real appreciation for how a technical visionary thinks. (I Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. I would learn a ton from Gordon for over a decade, not only about practical heuristics for managing complex engineering projects (i.e. Now In Print!

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

As we wrote recently , If your website isn’t well-designed, quick-to-load, and easy-to-navigate, you’re sabotaging your brand’s valuable online presence. The stakes are too high to risk losing business due to weak website design or poor user experience. But when should you revisit the design of your website?

Mobile 48

Mobile Design Technical Review RSS 48

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. com Michael Robertson.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

Customer Development 124

Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 124

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We had an application designed to [.] Blog at WordPress.com Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Reply Startup Weekend Lesson Learned #2 – Customer Development | startupSQUARE's blog , on August 5, 2010 at 4:15 am Said: [.] Reply Are the best Seed deals moving out of the Valley? To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Marketing is Design. Note: by “Design&# I mean technical (application) design. Design is a less constrained environment than coding. In design, trial and error (a.k.a. Marketing Isn’t Coding. Such it is with marketing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. We were on the bottom row – with an invisible box. We labeled this our “Black Hole of Packaging&# strategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 27, 2012

This is a guest post by Sacha Greif – a designer and entrepreneur who recently sold thousands of copies of a self-published eBook that shows how to design a user interface step by step. He’s worked with multiple startups and is also the founder of Folyo , a service that helps companies find vetted freelance designers.

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