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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Maribel Lopez Founder and Principal Analyst, Lopez Research LLC

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After several technology marketing and market research industry analyst roles, I took the leap and created my own independent analyst practice in 2008. During my meetings with tech buyers, I learn about their challenges with technology adoption and how they’d like to evolve their business. I read constantly.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with David Armano

Boxes and Arrows

As IDEA 2008 draws closer, the IA Institute is conducting a series of interviews with the speakers for the conference. I would say that the formal training I received didn’t really happen until I enrolled into design school (Pratt), and that’s where I learned the basics of design as well as how it intersected with technology.

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Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions

Boxes and Arrows

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. Once they quit their “normal” jobs, though, these influencers didn’t have social communities in which to share their experience or learn from each other.

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IDEA 2008: An Interview with Elliott Malkin

Boxes and Arrows

By directing Monarch butterflies to urban food sources it “is the equivalent of a fast-food sign on a highway, advertising rest stops (waystations) to monarchs traveling through the area.&#. His latest project, Graffiti for Butterflies , is even further afield from his typical subjects as it deals with natural science.

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Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Part 2

Boxes and Arrows

We also learned that customers are attracted to things that have an aesthetic personality that’s similar to their own, 1 but they prefer products that take on a complementary role during interaction. Demir, 2008), diagram: (van Gorp & Adams, 2012). The most highly evolved part of our brains (i.e. Comparing Models. Commitment.

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Designing for Interaction

Boxes and Arrows

Stackoverflow arrived on the scene in 2008 and solved the hostile environment brilliantly by applying gamification methods to encourage constructive participation on their platform. Once they quit their “normal” jobs, though, these influencers didn’t have social communities in which to share their experience or learn from each other.

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Unit Economics: How to Calculate CAC & LTV – It Depends – Podcast Transcript

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Kind of prioritize a little bit of what to learn. And then on the other extreme , of course you have paid advertising and you have sales teams. So there again , there’s like you have your conversion funnel of a user , you have a conversion funnel of an advertiser , right ? I’m learning when I read it.

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