Posts Tagged ‘value proposition

This week, Ask.com celebrated its 15-year anniversary. You may recall a time when Ask was one of the most-used and talked about search engines on the web, and now the company has basically abandoned search in favor of a focus on Q&A, while using “a third party search provider” to provide its search results. We [...]

By John Dilworth and Matt Miller A framework to help articulate and visualize the value of UX activities. Being able to understand and communicate the value that UX brings to your projects makes you more effective. It also improves the odds that important and critical UX work will get the attention it deserves in organizations [...]

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom: 30-Second Rule for App Success: Speaking of Instagram, this is some sharp thinking by Kevin Systrom on pairing down features for the initial stages of an app: [Instagram] has come a long way since its first iteration, a feature-laden app called Burbn that lacked a simple value proposition. To founder and [...]

Over the past month there has been a lot written about the Google and Groupon deal – why it did or did not make sense for either company – but the Ad Age article “Why Google Dropped Groupon and Local Just Doesn’t Scale” raised some interesting points about why a service like Groupon – any [...]

A recent report on Twitter usage in the U.S. by Edison Research concludes that 87% of all Americans are now aware of Twitter — up from 5% in 2008 — but only 7% of the population actually use it. Edison’s data was collected in February from 1,753 Americans ages 12 and up. The report also [...]


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