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Visas and Legal Issues for Digital Nomads
The biggest hurdle of international digital nomad life is understanding visas and basic legal issues that may affect you
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What is The Next Big Thing?
We’d like to tell you that we have a crystal ball and that—further down the page—there lurk 100 ideas that will guarante
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Membership Sites – Persuading the Masses
It may be a bit of a mouthful, but you can tap into “mass interpersonal persuasion” to create sales through your designs
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Social Evolution and Why We Need to Communicate
Human beings are social animals. We want to be in the company of friends or family and share our lives with them. We wan
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Reputational Capital - Why it Matters
Reputation is something we don’t really think about until it comes time to place our trust in someone. At that point rep
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Sympathetic Bonding and Why It’s Useful in Design
Sympathetic bonding occurs when we perceive someone else’s emotional reaction to be similar to our own experiences. As s
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Fear of Loss Provides Motivation to Buy
We often talk about creating positive emotions through design; we look to make clients happy and users comfortable, etc.
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The Internal Dialogue and Why it Matters to Designers
There’s a voice that most of us will listen to in preference to any other; that voice is our own. If you want to sell pr
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Video and Web Design
Video isn’t cheap to produce. It’s fair to say, though, that it keeps getting cheaper, and it might be the best investme
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Measuring the Mechanics in Gamification
If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t matter. At least, so they say. While it’s probably not true in every circumstance, b
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Introducing Game Mechanics for Gamification
Every form of design features special techniques which can take a design from “OK” to “amazing”. Gamification is no exce
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Tips for Mission Selection in Gamification Projects
If you want to keep your job, you need to be able to demonstrate value in your work. When you run a gamification project
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User-centred Design in a Gamification Context
Gamification, like many other forms of design, has its roots in user-centred design (UCD). If you’re going to develop aw
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Myth-Busting – Some Home Truths about Games
Understanding why gamification is important and how it is relevant to the corporate environment is becoming increasingly
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Business Outcomes and Gamification
It’s important for anyone involved in gamification design to have a clear understanding of what the business expects to
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