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3 reasons your marketing needs a better design focus

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by on October 10, 2014 at 6:14 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. I’m a marketing consultant. Clients come to me and say, “I need more traffic to my site, can I pay you to do that?” To which I often have to reply, “No.” “What?” Why would I say no? Why would I push someone away who is trying to give me money? Why would I refuse a new client? “Your design is not conversion-focused, traffic wouldn’t help you. I can help guide you to a better conversion-focused design though – then I can help build your traffic.” You see, marketing is a good…

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What every business can learn from Apple’s mistakes

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by on October 10, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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Ran Rachlin is the co-founder and CEO of Ubertesters, a global provider of a comprehensive, cloud-based, process management tool for mobile applications beta testing. App developers definitely learned something important from Apple’s latest product release: even the titans of the industry deal with programming bugs and release disasters. Well, we all knew that. What’s surprising is the depth of the problem; one so severe that Apple was forced to pull its iOS 8.0.1 update just days after it was released. All businesses, not just developers, can learn a few other useful things from Apple’s mistakes. Don’t let your past mistakes haunt you…

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10 visually inspiring films from the 2014 Toronto International Film Fest

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by on October 10, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web

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Alexander Huls is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire and other publications. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Hundreds of movies play every year at the Toronto International Film Festival, and many of them are not only great films, but particularly inspiring for the art and design community. Of course, with such an overwhelming list, it can be hard for non-attendees to determine which ones to look for at their local cinema in the coming months. That’s why we’ve done a little…

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Snapchat blames third-party clients for devastating photo leak

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by on October 10, 2014 at 3:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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There’s been some furor today over the release of what appears to be tens of thousands of nude photos from Snapchat users on 4chan. The leaks seem to have started last night in an event that’s been called “The Snappening,” in reference to the major leak of celebrity nudes earlier this year. Snapchat, however is firm on its stance that it had nothing to do with the leak. We received this statement from the company earlier: We can confirm that Snapchat’s servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks. Snapchatters were victimized by their use of third-party apps…

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Data scientists: Sexy or insufferable?

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by on October 10, 2014 at 2:10 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables

They have one of the sexiest job titles of the decade, but are data scientists really all that? Vooza – a video comic strip about the tech world regularly shares a new video with you lovely TNW readers. Sign up for Vooza’s email list to get exclusive access to more funny videos like this one. (And for the record, not many men read The Economist, either). Don’t miss: Don’t tell designers how to do their own job…

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