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How Google is slowing innovation
It was 1995 and the universe was deep in battle… A fearsome empire was striving for world domination and crushing their competitors with an iron fist. Their strategy? Embrace, extend, ...
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Design
How to design a payment form your customers will actually complete
70% of all shopping carts are abandoned. And 28% of those carts are abandoned because of a lengthy checkout process. — source Businesses want people to spend money. That means paying ...
Design
How to build an online form that converts
Listen with curiosity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to ...
Design
How to structure your online forms for success
Forms. I know, your pulse doesn’t start racing with excitement. Forms get a bad rep. Love or hate them, from registration to collecting payments, forms are here to stay. Forms equal ...
Inspiration
How listening to our 4.1 million users inspired a new product idea
Years ago, I was waiting in line at a paddle sports shop. People were renting kayaks and canoes and getting fitted for life jackets. It was a brilliant, sunny day and the air buzzed ...
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Focus on productivity, not efficiency
12 Hours That’s how long it took to build a car before 1913. Over the next several years, Henry Ford reduced the time-consuming process to an impressive 2.5 hours. His goal was simple ...
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(Deliberate) practice makes perfect: how to become an expert in anything
The human race is out-doing itself. We’re faster, smarter, stronger, more emotionally-intelligent and artistically-gifted than ever before. Take a look at any profession in the world ...
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Standing desks vs sitting: why sitting ISN’T slowly killing you
You’re *sitting* at your desk working away, deep in flow, when you notice out of the corner of your eye someone staring at you. Ignoring it at first, you continue to type away at your ...
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The “fearless entrepreneur” is a myth: why you don’t have to take risks to build a successful business
When I was a kid, I worked in my cousin’s gift store. I was so bored during those long, hot summers that I didn’t even ask him to pay me. But one day I had a brilliant idea. I would go ...
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All about sleep: a complete guide for getting the rest you need
Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi gets four hours. Fashion designer Tom Ford logs just three. Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s VP of Retail, says she gets a headache after six. Sleep is a huge topic ...
Business Online
The power of doing nothing at all
The old crocodile was floating at the river’s edge when a younger crocodile swam up next to him, “I’ve heard from many that you’re the fiercest hunter in all of the river bottoms. ...
Business Online
Don’t listen to those productivity gurus: why waking up at 6am won’t make you successful
If you want to be successful, many experts and life-hackers say you should wake up at 6 am, take a cold shower, exercise, meditate, journal and brainstorm, review and set goals, read ...
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Particles Animation: 20 Solutions from Codepen
Experiments with canvas, a basic HTML5 element that is used to produce graphics of various kinds and scale on a web page, are gaining more and more popularity nowadays. It seems that ...
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15 Code Snippets for Timelines
Remember all those personal portfolios that present an artist in a unique and eye-pleasing manner. Those that breathe with modernity and originality, instantly capture the attention and ...
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40 Creative Screensavers and Wallpapers To Go
Every day, we’re sitting in front of the computer: thus, we’ll enjoy a nice wallpaper or a screensaver that welcomes us when we return from grabbing a coffee. We have ...
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35 Powerful Photos That Tell a Story
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” That is the motto of a photojournalist. It is their objective to produce direct, truthful and bold images that tell the stories for ...
