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Get Gmail For Your Desktop With MailPlane

Get Gmail For Your Desktop With MailPlane

Jenna Curry May 8, 2013 1

“Boo hoo, I hate my email program” I was complaining to Ben the other day about how unhappy I was with with Apple Mail because I was not able to search and find emails

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BUX Podcast #71: Lija Hogan on Satisfaction Analytics from ForeSee Results

BUX Podcast #71: Lija Hogan on Satisfaction Analytics from ForeSee Results

Ben Snyder December 21, 2012 0

Podcast: Download On today’s podcast, Jenna and I talk with Lija Hogan, Usability Manager at ForeSee Results. ForeSee is one of the major UX firms around, working for a host of Fortune 500 companies,

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BUX Podcast #70: An Interview with Sean Ellis, Founder and CEO of Qualaroo

BUX Podcast #70: An Interview with Sean Ellis, Founder and CEO of Qualaroo

Ben Snyder December 14, 2012 1

Podcast: Download There are some fantasy football players reading this right now who are saying “Sean Ellis from the New York Jets and New England Patriots?” And you guys are hilarious. But no, we

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Codecademy for UX Dummies

Codecademy for UX Dummies

Jenna Curry November 28, 2012 2

My Background in HTML I learned HTML basics the first time in high school in the crazy-basic class, Intro to Web Design, and then again briefly in college in Writing for PR, and I

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The UX Toolbox: The UX Tools You Need to Get It Done

The UX Toolbox: The UX Tools You Need to Get It Done

Jenna Curry October 31, 2012 8

UX thrives on data. And to get data we need tools. Good tools. Kick ass tools. Tools that help us understand the desires and motives of our users… The best way to directly obtain

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7 Things to Consider When Choosing an Email Marketing Service Provider

7 Things to Consider When Choosing an Email Marketing Service Provider

Jenna Curry October 22, 2012 1

Just like a garden only bears fruit if managed properly, so it is with email marketing. We know it can work, but you have to get the basics right. The basics of building a

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UX Killer Tool: Get Statistically Valid Data With Google Consumer Surveys

UX Killer Tool: Get Statistically Valid Data With Google Consumer Surveys

Ben Snyder October 8, 2012 1

One of the biggest problems that UX professionals have is getting enough users to create a statistically valid sample. We’ve argued before for that statistical validity isn’t necessary most of the time. And when

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5 Wireframe Tools That Will Jumpstart Your Web Design Process

5 Wireframe Tools That Will Jumpstart Your Web Design Process

Jenna Curry September 26, 2012 11

An important step in the web design process for Little Wing Marketing is to create wire frames for our clients. A wireframe is essentially a “skeleton” of the website without fully-realized content. It consists mostly

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How To Use Google Analytics to Get Your Crappy Website to Print Money

How To Use Google Analytics to Get Your Crappy Website to Print Money

Ben Snyder September 3, 2012 2

Google Analytics is becoming quite the Swiss Army Knife these days. It’s come a long way from the days when it was basically a GUI stapled to a log file. Now besides web data,

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BUX Review: The Hello Bar

BUX Review: The Hello Bar

Ben Snyder August 27, 2012 0

I first ran across the Hello Bar when I saw a tweet about it being bought by Crazy Egg. What really interested me about it was that somebody thought to make this a service

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