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The Most Romantic Restaurants in 10 San Francisco NeighborhoodsOn Valentine’s Day or any date night, it’s easy to leave your heart in San Francisco restaurants. Here are 10 of the best across the city, serving everything from paella in rustic surroundings to lamb-belly steamed buns in an edgy lounge-restaurant. Lower Pacific Heights: SPQR Diners pack ...
1Nobody Wants To Use Your ProductEvery morning, designers wake up to happily work on their products, be they digital or physical, with an inner belief that people will want to use their products and will have a blast doing so. Perhaps that is a slight generalization; however, as designers, we tend to have a **natural desire for each project we work on to be the best** it can be, to be innovative and, most importantly, to make a difference. Here is a little revelation. People are not really into using products. Any time spent by a user operating an interface, twisting knobs, pulling levers or tapping buttons is time wasted. Rather, people are **more interested in the end result** and in obtaining that result in the quickest, least intrusive and most efficient manner possible. And these are two fundamentally different concepts — usage versus results — which, at the very least, differentiate good product design from poor product design or, on a smaller scale, a good feature from a bad one.
6Mobile retention benchmarks for 2014 vs 2013 show a 50% drop in D1 retention (Guest post)[Andrew: There’s very little data out there on mobile, and so in the last few weeks, I’ve had guest posts on the % of users who opt-in to push notifications, as well as clickthrough rates of push. Today, I have some new metrics around retention, including for the first time, a systematic study of D1/D7/D30 …
4Stanford Study: Walking Increases Creativity by 60%It’s not unusual to get good ideas while walking, and now we know why. A new study by Stanford researchers has found that a person’s creative output increases by an average of 60% when walking. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re walking inside or outside. The study involved four experiments with 176 college students and adults. Each participant completed tasks ...
13Satisfying Arrangements Of Everyday Objects By Emily BlincoeEmily Blincoe, a photographer from Austin, Texas, creates beautiful, colorful and soothing photos of everyday objects by arranging them into neat and orderly collections based on size, shape and color. The simple and beautiful patterns in her images are profoundly calming!
4Seven Plus or Minus ThreeA common question I am asked, “How big should the team be?” My immediate response: Seven plus or minus three. There is a not a lot of hard theory behind this guideline, just common sense. To understand my reasoning, let’s do a little math. Let’s first assume you have seven folks on your team and… More
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