YFS Magazine

MARCH 2, 2016

Increasingly, designers are turning towards biophilic design for office space planning, so why is it so important? Culture Workspaces biophilic design company culture eco eco-friendly business Office Space office space design workspaces

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2016

Being a designer is hard. Well, they’re passionate about the actual design part. Usually not so much, largely because a lot of the people and companies who hire designers don’t necessarily understand everything that goes into a design job.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 4, 2017

I can safely state that most people don’t get what “design” means. This is why design is usually relegated to the outskirts of organizations. This article Why A Design Mindset Matters For Entrepreneurs appeared first in YFS Magazine.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 15, 2016

They’re generally used more on websites that use a minimalist or flat design. From a design perspective there are several advantages of using ghost buttons. Their subtle design can give prominence to other design elements on the page. Original design with a pink button.

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SVPG

AUGUST 29, 2016

The Product Designer Role. You got the go ahead to hire some in-house designers. Up until now you’ve been relying on an external agency for the majority of your design work and this is going to enable you to create a team that is much more responsive and predictable. Your next task is to define the product design role within your company. Here's a short list of important attributes of the modern product designer role: (1) Product Orientation.

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 28, 2016

From their physical layout to the arc of the lighting, today's hottest office designers predict trends for 2017

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YFS Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

This article Design Your Office Space To Boost Productivity And Creativity appeared first in YFS Magazine. Workspaces home office office design Office Space productivity workspacesWorkspaces are tools that should enhance your company.

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Instigator Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I’m not a designer. But as a product manager, it’s my job to understand how design (and UI/UX) can be applied to solving problems. (It’s You won’t always know why a certain application is built a certain way or a certain design was implemented.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The designer showed him something, and they started discussing a new feature’s design loudly. The designer just took a deep breath and hid his face behind his hands.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Web design has come a long way since the days of Angelfire chaos. In truth, the user experience designer has always been around. It’s just that before we woke up to the fact that our design should revolve around the user, they were web designers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

But when it comes to design, demographics can fall woefully short in terms of generating meaningful insights. Not every 30-something woman making a healthy living as an accountant feels and thinks the same way, and while design is most certainly an element of a platform or application’s function, it’s also a form of psychological influence via the aesthetic. If your approach to UX design is “one and done”, your results won’t be durable anyway.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2014

This week the author of the business model canvas, my friend Alexander Osterwalder, launched his new book Value Proposition Design , the sequel to his million copy best seller, Business Model Generation. Tells you how to design new ventures with it.

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Instigator Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Startups are often struck by the Curse of Knowledge, specifically when it comes to product design and development. It becomes so easy to design products based on our own expertise (in those very products) and ignore the fact that we’ve stopped designing with our customer top of mind. Then keep that top of mind – and more importantly, keep your customers front and center – whenever doing any product design and development.

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Design Staff

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Design Staff. Design without a design team. In an ideal world, every company has a dedicated design team. Must they wait until they’re big enough to hire a full design team before they can practice good design? Visual design leader.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2014

Two methods, Design Thinking and Customer Development (the core of the Lean Startup) provide the tactical day-to-day process of how to turn ideas into products. . Customer Development versus Design Thinking.

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Inc Startups

APRIL 21, 2017

Design-centered companies are more profitable. Research shows that design-centric organizations consistently outperformed the S&P 500 by over 200% over the past 3 years. Design

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

Today, we’ll cover web design best practices and tips. We’ll point you to great resources and examples and highlight recent changes in web design. Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2016: 1. Use a responsive design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet. In a new book, “ X: The Experience When Business Meets Design ,” Brian Solis details how to design the whole experience, rather than just the product.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. Amanda is passionate about customer led product design and in product prototyping to deliver best in market products and customer outcomes.

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Launch Any

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As part of my API design consulting engagements, I’m often called in to resolve the conflict between the API design that the frontend developers would prefer to have and the backend developers want to build. Example conflict #3: Database-centric API design.

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Inc Startups

JANUARY 20, 2017

Finance, healthcare and city governments are incorporating design thinking in cool ways

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Design Staff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

A few weeks ago I had coffee with an experienced product designer. One was an almost perfect match — the right design challenges and aligned with Carl’s personal interests. In less than 24 hours the CEO sent Carl an offer to be their lead designer. He personally felt undervalued and he worried that the company’s culture might underrate design generally. It’s pretty easy to get a range of salaries for “UX Designer in San Francisco”, for instance. Design Hiring

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YFS Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Here's a look at practical ways you can create a productive, stylish office that is designed to grow alongside your business. Workspaces office design Office Space workspaces

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 20, 2016

When it comes to crowdsourcing design needs, the projects that come to mind are pretty specific to branding. But there’s another avenue of design that does well when sourced to the crowd that can have significant impacts outside of profit margins: socially influential design.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

We recently underwent a Cinderella-like transformation: A total redesign of the WP Engine website from despicable steaming pile of hideousness to a designed, thematic — dare I say artistic? If our website design was repulsive — literally — the bounce rate should now diminish.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 18, 2017

Contrary to what you might expect, 2016 actually saw many businesses invest more time and money on commercial interior design. This guide to the biggest office design trends to look out for in 2017 will help your business get ready for the year ahead: Disappearing Files.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Joel Harvey of Conversion Sciences agrees, adding some controversial statements (read: wake up calls)… Joel Harvey , Conversion Sciences: “Responsive design, as we know it today is toxic to mobile conversion rates. design elements), you run the risk of over-simplifying.

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Design Staff

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Design Staff. Hiring a designer: hunting the unicorn. Braden Kowitz / Design Partner, Google Ventures. Finding the perfect designer to join your team is tough — there’s no way around it. I’ve struggled for months searching for the right designer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Use Design to Elevate Your Content Marketing written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As you plan your content marketing strategy, consider using design and visual storytelling to differentiate your content from the competition. Why design?

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Design Staff

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Design Staff. How to interview a designer with the perfect design exercise. Braden Kowitz / Design Partner, Google Ventures. I wasn’t really good at interviewing designers until I had a few dozen interviews to compare. The design exercise.

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YFS Magazine

MARCH 23, 2017

Effective web design involves creating a practical and aesthetically pleasing site. Grow Marketing & Sales company website marketing web design web developmentHere are 7 useful tips to keep in mind.

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Design Staff

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Design Staff. How designers and engineers can play nice (and still run with scissors). As a designer at engineering-centric companies for the last 10 years or so, I spend a lot of time working with engineers. But there is a reason why teams need both design and engineering.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Below, Josh talks about designing features from nothing and how to make important design choices during the pre-seed and seed-stage phases of startup growth. JP: So I love this question because it gets to a very important issue in product design and growth: user bias.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Whether you are setting up shop or rebranding, designing your logo is just as important as getting things right on other aspects of your business. With today’s logo design crowdsourcing services, you still have lots of options for good small business logo design.

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Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It may be that your web design that is the culprit. If you believe this is the case, here are some things to consider as you evaluate and remodel your website design. Ease of Navigation must be at the Forefront of your Web Design Strategy. You can provide your readers with great content and an extremely appealing design, but you will lose them over navigation each and every time. Responsive Design. Add Media.

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Design Staff

MARCH 22, 2012

Design Staff. Story-centered design: hacking your brain to think like a user. Braden Kowitz / Design Partner, Google Ventures. When I first started designing interactive products, it was a struggle. I used to design screens. Story-centered design.

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Google Ventures

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Now that we’re past hunting for unicorns , and we know what design roles are needed at a startup , it’s time to get into the gritty details: the design interview. I wasn’t really good at interviewing designers until I had a few dozen interviews to compare. The design exercise.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

We do love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! User Experience in Graphic Design & Why it Matters – HOW Design crowdspring.co/1ijhMf1.

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Design Staff

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Design Staff. Hiring a designer: how to review portfolios. Chad Thornton / Designer, Airbnb. Designers know that looks sell, and many people sell themselves that way. Of course, the ability to make something that looks good matters, especially for visual designers.

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bokardo.com

MAY 9, 2012

Principles of User Interface Design. "To To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse." - Paul Rand.

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