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Dark Patterns: The Dark Side of UX

UX Planet

Here’s the story: Back in early 2010, LinkedIn introduced a new feature called “Add to network” on its website. Image: MeasuringU Intentional Misdirection As the name suggests, it distracts the user from what really matters so that they don’t see something and continue with the process. when the item was added to the cart.

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5 Business ‘Rules’ Worth Breaking

Business of Software Conference

In his 2010 talk, Smart Bear and WP Engine founder Jason Cohen talks about the proverbial ‘rules of business’ and many varying pieces of advice founders get – often from well-meaning mentors and experts. Cohen starts his presentation by telling a story about how he started blogging in 2009. So, I decided, screw blogging.

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Bootstrapping To 10 Million – The Story Of Kovai.co

Userpilot

In 2010, he decided to build a product to solve these issues. For instance, since 2004, Saravana had been writing about the Microsoft BizTalk technology on his blog. Back then, he had no idea that the blog would become a primary customer acquisition channel for a product he would launch in the future. A few things helped here.

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Small Cosmetic Brand Product Managers Are Changing The Business

The Accidental Product Manager

These brands have seen huge growth over the past few years, grabbing market share from the big, established names. From 2010 to 2015, the 10 largest prestige brands dropped in their market share to 40% from 46%. Click here to get automatic updates when The Accidental Product Manager Blog is updated. Subscribe now: Click Here!

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15 Fun Facts About btrax

freshtrax

Have you ever wondered where the name “btrax” comes from? btrax has organized multiple startup events since 2010 including Japan Night and Asian Night to foster entrepreneurs from overseas. freshtrax is btrax’s blog where readers can find articles on the latest marketing, business, and design trends in Japan and America.

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What Is Developer Marketing? [Best Practices & Examples Included]

Userpilot

As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. There are seven common channels for developer marketing: in-app guidance , in-app knowledge bases , blog posts, tech events, Stack Overflow forum, Slack, and Hacker News. million from 2010. You can measure this by looking at the number of: Blog views.

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The Top Product Moments of the Decade…and What’s Coming Next

The Product Coalition

Here are some of the biggest Product moments of the decade, and a quick look at what’s coming for us in the future… What Happened to Product in the 2010s We thought about PCs differently The first on the list takes us all the way back to the beginning. With a name inspired by the Library of Alexandria, Alexa promised big things.