Designing User Habits
Video of Nir Eyal’s recent talk at the Designers + Geeks Meetup in San Francisco on August 1st, 2012.
Tag Archives: Usability
Hipmunk co-founder on UX As Product Strategy: Differentiation in a Crowded Market
Hipmunk, a startup in San Francisco, entered the crowded online travel search market in 2010. Their approach was novel: show all the most relevant results on a single page, and help users visualize the tradeoffs between the options. In doing so they bypassed the traditional product strategies in travel search, which relied on saturating the [...]
Interaction Design: How the Design of Products and Services Comes From Working Intimately With Your Domain
Matt Jones and Jack Schulze will explore a cross-section of recent and ongoing work from BERG, examining how the design of products and services comes from working intimately with the materials of your domain, even if they are intangible—like radio or data. About Matt Jones Matt is a Principal at BERG and has been delivering [...]
Jason Fried of 37Signals on doing less than the competition
37Signals’ products include Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, Campfire, and Writeboard. The company also developed and open-sourced the Ruby on Rails programming framework. 37Signals’ products do less than the competition – intentionally.
Gotta outsource? Watch this lecture on finding a good software development company, building an awesome app and making money off it
Outsourcing software development in a startup is not ideal. But if this is the only path available to you, this talk by mobile app developers will explain how to go about finding a good outsourced software development company, how to build an awesome app and how to make money off it.
Founder of Gmail talks about listening to your users
Customer feedback and rapid iteration based on that feedback is an integral part of creating a successful startup. Listen to Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed talk about listening to your users.
12 things I’ve learned while building products for the web
Pierre Valade of Foursquare talked to the Campers about the difference between designing on the web: game design and product design. Pierre shares the lessons he has learned about start-ups that he wishes he knew before starting his companies. “One right thing is more interesting than a lot of wrong things” he says; so make [...]
From Upstart to Startup to Grownup: Lessons of an iPhone Company
(May 15, 2009) Jessica Kahn, the Director of Engineering at Tapulous, describes her experience at an iPhone appllcation development company.
The Role of Design in Service Innovation
A talk by Axel Unger, Head of Health Practice, Europe, IDEO at the conference “Innovation in Healthcare Delivery”, jointly hosted by the London Business School and the Cambridge Judge Business School on July 16th 2010 in London. In his talk Axel argues how the role of design in innovation is not only about providing the [...]