Category: Career

Rapid User Testing with Mechanical Turk

June 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

How We Supercharged Our User Testing Using Mechanical Turk, Google Forms and Usability Hub. When working with startups we are often treading new ground on new products and it is important to begin validating assumptions early and often. It also helps to have some data to back up our design decisions when presenting them to stakeholders. We’ve been experimenting with different methods for getting rapid user feedback and we’d like to share some of our explorations. We started out by researching the existing solutions on the market. There are a number of online tools available for remote user testing, and in fact there are enough choices that it can be a little hard to decide between them. So to narrow it down we had to …

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Rapid User Testing with Mechanical Turk

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10 Online Tools to Create Awesome Resumes

June 24, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

People who work in the creative industry, for instance, web design and photography etc., need to send out their resumes quite often and frequently. If you fall under the category of “creativity”, the fact is that resumes made in a Word Processor are no longer good enough. People these days, are being as creative as they can in order to show their skills before the interview can even begin. If you have a potential employer, you will need to come up with something that is unique, and instantly catches the attention of the said employer. Let’s face it, many a times what happens is that your potential employer does not even look at your resume and discards it. That needs to change, and you will …

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10 Online Tools to Create Awesome Resumes

How to Make Your Videos Rank Better on YouTube

June 24, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Here are some tips and tricks for earning a higher ranking for your video on YouTube, including optimizing video tags and encouraging comments. With 200,000 videos uploaded per day, more than 600 years required to view all those videos, more than 100 million videos watched daily, and more than 300 million existing accounts, if you think YouTube might not be an effective distribution channel to reach prospective customers, think again. Yes, understanding YouTube can be a little complicated as compared to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or even Tumblr, when it comes to generating engagement, but YouTube marketing is worth all the efforts. YouTube is the third most popular site in the world and the second most popular search engine after Google. So you can see why it is important to optimize your …

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How to Make Your Videos Rank Better on YouTube

Why Steve Jobs replaced the Mac’s £ key with

June 23, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Graphic designer Susan Kare is iconic – literally. The mastermind behind the friendly 32 x 32 and 16 x 16 icons used in the original Mac operating system, Kare’s work has reached more people than almost any other graphic designer on Earth. Yet the way she stumbled into designing the icons for the Mac operating system was pretty much a lark, and in a recent presentation at the EG conference in California, Kare spoke a little bit about how she stumbled into the job. It’s a fascinating talk, not just for the details she shares about early Mac operating system development, but also because Kare finally reveals why Apple switched from the Apple symbol to the Command key. Kare never thought she’d be best known for…

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Why Steve Jobs replaced the Mac’s  key with

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How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Step-by-Step Guide for Non-Scientists

June 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

To form a truly educated opinion on a scientific subject, you need to become familiar with current research in that field. And to be able to distinguish between good and bad interpretations of research, you have to be willing and able to read the primary research literature for yourself. Reading and understanding research papers is a skill that every single doctor and scientist has had to learn during graduate school. You can learn it too, but like any skill it takes patience and practice.Reading a scientific paper is a completely different process from reading an article about science in a blog or newspaper. Not only do you read the sections in a different order than they’re presented, but you also have to take notes, read it…

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How to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Step-by-Step Guide for Non-Scientists