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Technology Planning: API First Design
How to structure teams for API first development isn't as complicated as you might think.
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Why being ‘pixel perfect’ matters.
Today’s consumer expectations center on quality. Quality of design gives the impression of a professional and secure experience. Because of the amount of competition in just about every application market, if you want to be considered one of the premier players, your look and feel has to be clean and ‘pixel perfect’. Some of the […]
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5 things every visualization should have
I cringe when I see beautiful maps, charts and graphs that provide no value. For a truly valuable visualization, you need to make sure you account for the aspects that not only make it beautiful, but more importantly usable for making good business decisions. Like so many others, i started out only building what looked […]
We do not possess an inherent ability to judge value in isolation, value is determined by comparing one thing to another.
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UX: Why is Amazon so bad at user experience?
Chances are, you have used Amazon.com, purchased many things, or watched Prime movies over the last few years. The amazon.com site has changed over the years, but the user experience hasn’t gotten any better. The site began in 1995 and quickly became a go to for books, and online purchases. But when it comes to […]
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User Experience: Creating Stakeholder Maps
When it comes to user experience, a product manager should always understand who the stakeholders are for their product. It is very common to do stakeholder interviews and get detailed business cases from them. Those are absolutely important, but an interesting way to visualize that information is through circular stakeholder maps. I’m not seeing these […]
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Analytic Dashboards: User Experience and Cues
A great dashboard creates more questions than it answers. It pushes business decisions into new directions and helps to validate previous work. So, what makes a good user experience when building analytic dashboards? There are a number of ways you can ensure that your users are taken care of and get what they need. The […]
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Analytic Dashboards: When to use a scatterplot.
I get many questions about how and when to use certain types of visualizations. Scatterplots are a unique and powerful tool to visualize data and when used correctly, can identify patterns and find trends in even the most complex sets of data. When data points have a relationship to one another, it is called a […]
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Brand Loyalty Programs: Using Customer Engagement
As a consumer, I am conditioned to seeing the brands I use sell me on loyalty programs. Everything from “cash back” and “reward points” to discounts on additional products and services. So many companies are becoming successful, what I call, “Individual Marketers”. Most of the larger brands and distributors though are still tying loyalty programs […]
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Web Techniques: Blocking
A common duty of a front end developer is to take designs and translate them to code. When you are learning web application development, it can be intimidating to even know where to begin. One technique I use is called blocking. Before you do anything in code, you have to create a plan for developing […]