Ideas
Practical advice to further your digital product efforts.
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Think User Testing is a Luxury? Ask Airbnb.
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Failure
Dean Schuster -
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Worst-Case Scenario: Surviving an Attack by Stakeholders
Bailey Lewis -
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Turn Your Intranet Into a High-Powered Business Tool
Bailey Lewis -
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Are Development Firms Really Embracing User Experience?
Dean Schuster -
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The Digital Treadmill from Hell
truematter -
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Web Team Prizefight: Match Recap
truematter -
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Dear Search Engine Robots: Usable Useful User-Friendly Digital Website Application Software Products in Columbia, SC 29201
Bailey Lewis -
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Invest in Your Digital Products Up Front or You'll Pay for Them Forever
Rusty Farrell -
![An iceberg in the ocean. The larger part of the iceberg, under the water, is labeled UX, while the small part of the iceberg above the water reads, "UI/GUI."]()
Avoiding Digital Product Shipwreck: The UX Iceberg
Bailey Lewis -
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Designing Digital Products for the Lizard Brain
Dean Schuster -
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Let Your Users Show You What's Not Working
Bailey Lewis -
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Creating Internal Digital Products Your Team Will Actually Like to Use
truematter -
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Making Bad UX Decisions Is Like Swallowing Gum and Not Just Because They’re Both Unpleasant
Bailey Lewis -
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Lead Your Organization to Make Exceptional Digital Products
Dean Schuster -
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The World's Simplest UX Reading List
truematter -
![A blurred out computer next to a plant. Overlaid on top is a Venn diagram. One circle reads, "user tests," the other circle, "digital product designers," and the overlapping space says, "pure magic."]()
User Testing Made Me a Better Designer
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Dos and Don'ts For Creating Powerful User Personas
Bailey Lewis -
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How Green Was My Delusion: Perception and Reality in UX
Dean Schuster -
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Expert Panel Report: Building a UX Culture in Your Organization
Bailey Lewis
