Recently in the Harvard Business Review, Wyatt Jenkins of Shutterstock shares some thoughts on how their product benefits from experimentation.
A/B Testing at Shutterstck
12 Mar 2014
12 Mar 2014
Recently in the Harvard Business Review, Wyatt Jenkins of Shutterstock shares some thoughts on how their product benefits from experimentation.
6 Mar 2014
What makes people passionate, pure and simple, is great experiences. If they have great experience with your product and they have great experiences with your service, they’re going to be passionate about your brand, they’re going to be committed to it. That’s how you build that kind of commitment.
5 Mar 2014
Once leadership was all about planting your flag on the summit and standing heroically for a photograph. Now the leader is the one pacing anxiously at base camp waiting to hear good news.
Really enjoying this book, which was recommended to me by Dan Saffer a while back.
4 Mar 2014
In a project we’re currently working on, we created a form builder that could publish complex forms that include features such as:
4 Mar 2014
Several months ago, our team left Campfire and entered HipChat for all internal conversations project, team, or cute kitten related. There are a few great things about using HipChat, but one of my favorite’s as a designer is this; adding a swatch of any HEX code. This feature not only provides my teammate with the code to add for a color, but also provides more context when we are collaborating. It’s a small thing, but sometimes, the small things just make life a little better.
What are the small things you like about the tools you use?
3 Mar 2014
An outsider may venture to assume that Robby Russell, the founder and chief evangelist at Planet Argon spends his every waking moment helping foster creativity among his team whilst ensuring that he helps make things happen in the studio. While that most definitely is the case, there is much more to him than just that.
While those of of us who get the opportunity to work with him on a daily basis know and understand his drive to be an active participant in the local community, his philanthropic passions are easily overshadowed by his extensive Ruby on Rails resume / endeavors.
I'd suggest you take a look at the latest interview that Omakase conducted with Robby. This interview sheds some light on Robby and his true philanthropic passions.
3 Mar 2014
David Smith shares his thoughts on mobile apps prompting people to enable push notifications.
28 Feb 2014
Topics discussed in the chat room this week
27 Feb 2014
While checking out the Wistia blog, I came across this post that piqued my interest. It resonated with me since I have been taking care of most of our remarketing campaigns lately (sorry if you are inundated with kittens now). I hate how tracking URLs look. Filled with utm_source, utm_campaign and such. Not a clean URL by any standard. However, this is what we need to use to track these campaigns. A necessary evil, I suppose.
What Fresh URL does is delete the tracking code after those tracking services have registered their information. This gives your visitors a nice clean URL if they are moved to share the page. This prevents false page tracking and just makes the internet a nicer place to be.
27 Feb 2014
Planet Argon hired two Epicodus graduates as junior Ruby on Rails developers: Abby Smalls and Ana Tighe. I took some time to sit down with them and see how things are going so far. It was great talking to them about their experiences starting as junior developers here. We touched on some interesting points, including company culture, favorite apps, music, and some insights for people interested in development.
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