JoelMarsh

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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
In psychology (or behavioral economics) you might hear people talking about "hyperbolic discounting", which is basically the fancy version of "something now is better than something later". This can also have the effect of making your new i
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
Don't pay for anything! At least not now: While you may choose to put some money into a serious analytics package in the future (when you get millions of visitors per month and have specific measurement interests), there is absolutely no ne
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
Senior designer here... There is an old adage among designers, which couldn't be more appropriate for this post: "work for free or charge full price; never work for cheap." Same goes for clients. Get it free or pay full price. Everything el
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
Amazing article. BUT...there are interfaces in all of the simple versions of the examples. Key + keyhole = interface. A keyhole that "knows" when the correct key is close = better interface. Wallet + Money + cashier + cash register = interf
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
I find a couple of the conclusions of this article very misleading. A couple of the lesson are great, but I feel the need to point out a few conclusions that are not quite spot-on: 1. Random photos are better than screenshots Everything is
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
Upvoted. Sorry to hear about your buyer's remorse, but thanks for paying it and posting your thoughts. Anything more specific? Likes and dislikes?
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
I do, too. Unfortunately, the thing I am usually supposed "to do" with an email is reply to it, in which case, what I actually need is a better way to keep track of my emails overall, and a faster, simpler way to be a part of the conversati
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
Amazing. I'm glad I asked. Thanks!
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
There seems to be some very scrum-savvy people here. I have used it many times, but I am interested in your thoughts about how designers typically work within that framework. In my experience design and scrum don't play very nicely together
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
Great essay. Enlightening, actually. A few somewhat provocative questions: If you could theoretically "randomize" start up ideas, founders, business models, and every other primary ingredient in current "start-up theory", like a giant mult
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I can't decide whether to focus on the interesting aspects/potential of your tool, or the fact that you circumvented the concern I presented, but thanks for the answer nonetheless. The ease of this tool is inversely related to the need for
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For an individual person to generate 15 dollars of ad revenue based on clicks and impressions, they would have to be pretty active, ad-wise. I think, on average across a whole system of advertising, Amazon will probably gain monetarily, not
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by JoelMarsh 14y ago
What is the typical number of rules someone has to write if they get, say, 100 emails per day from any combination of 1000 contacts? If you have 100 common contacts (as opposed to the other 900 who email once and a while) and I need, say, a