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6 Ways User Interface and User Experience Design Can Help Your Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Figuring out what to build (or what to fix) means understanding your customer’s problems, and the only way to really do this effectively is to talk to them directly: Offer them a short post-sale survey on your existing site, Hand out in-store questionnaires, or. The bottom line? The simpler the design, the better.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Ahlberg founded Spotfire (acquired by Tibco) based on his research on information visualization at the University of Maryland under the guidance of Ben Shneiderman. Mr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland. Moderator: Joseph W.

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Virtual worlds – then, now and next

VC Cafe

The first major economic transactions in virtual worlds started around 2007 when the City of Amsterdam inside Second Life was sold for $50,000 or when someone bought a unique elf on World of Warcraft for $9,500. In 2010 Jon Jacobs built & operated a virtual nightclub inside the game Entropia and sold it for $635,000! .

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace.

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People-First Capitalism

Reid Hoffman

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. And it was 2007. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace.