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Common Website Design Mistakes Beginners Make

YoungUpstarts

Whether you are a confident professional or an experienced beginner, you should make sure that all your website elements are easy on the eyes and create low cognitive demand by being properly aligned, columns vertically segment contents, and content blocks are aligned correctly and positioned for most effective user navigation.

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The Effects of Typography on User Experience & Conversions

ConversionXL

Now, of course , this isn’t going to be uniform across all verticals. John Paul Mains shares the result of one client who saw improvements in conversions after changing the font size from 10px 13px to be more readable – I wonder what would happen if he pushed it even further? What were the results? We Love Typography.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. The DEC and Trey Bowles in Dallas, Station Houston and John Reale in Houston, Geekdom and Lorenzo Gomez III in San Antonio, and Georgia Thomsen and Capital Factory in Austin.

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Be Coachable

Austin Startup

I started every one of my tech businesses after Peachtree Software in the ATDC in Atlanta and was part of the Georgia Tech alumni committee that founded it. Not all incubators and accelerators are the same, and many have adopted vertical specializations and come packing serious heat from major partners in those verticals.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

The weather, the community, having Georgia Tech in our backyard for talent, the cost of living, connectivity to all major cities. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Autonomous driving.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

ConversionXL

Morris showed the quiz passage in six different typefaces – Baskerville, Computer Modern, Comic Sans, Georgia, Trebuchet, and Helvetica. Further reading: The Effects of Typography On User Experience and Conversions. In November 2014, Google published findings that suggest vertical ad units are the most viewable.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Flugauto

Austin Startup

Georgia Tech and Stanford. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.