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Crowdsourcing vs crowdfunding – what’s the difference?

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Crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe who defined it as taking a task traditionally performed by an employee and outsourcing it to an undefined, sometimes large group of people. Crowdsourcing first became popular among software developers: open sourced code was a way for companies to more quickly develop software.

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User experience: ROI and methods to measure your investment in UX

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Even in the face of this reality, it still takes a good deal of convincing to make all the stakeholders of a company understand the impacts of UX projects. The six steps for justifying better UX, Forrester (2006). In the book Why Software Fails, there is also information that gives us the cost-effective impact of investing in UX.