Open in app

Sign in

Write

Sign in

Jeff Davidson
Jeff Davidson

7.9K Followers

Home

About

Published in

The Startup

·Feb 6, 2020

Design Sprints are Absurd

It’s Time to Get Serious — The ‘Design Sprint’, made extremely popular by Google Ventures is a highly problematic approach to innovation. At best, it’s a glorified ‘team-building’ exercise that has made its way into thousands of massive corporations, startups, and company workshops. Due to its adoption and promotion by Google, it has spread like absolute…

Design

11 min read

Design Sprints are Absurd
Design Sprints are Absurd
Design

11 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Feb 2, 2020

The Billion-Dollar Feature

(It’s Not About the Likes) — Have you ever looked up an old partner, potential boss, employer, or long lost friend on Google? Congratulations, you’re a voyeur. There exists an extremely powerful, borderline perverse, and highly profitable ‘feature’ in many of the social media applications we use. Companies make billions off this feature, and it’s a…

Design

6 min read

The Billion-Dollar Feature
The Billion-Dollar Feature
Design

6 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Jan 16, 2020

Why Designers Should Work With Real Data

It’s Time to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone — Software applications don’t directly give you food, water, shelter, affection, or sex — the only thing they do is disseminate information that may lead to all these more basic human needs. Thus, graphic, UX, and software design is really about the selection and organization of information, through time. …

Data Visualization

6 min read

Why Designers Should Work With Real Data
Why Designers Should Work With Real Data
Data Visualization

6 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Aug 4, 2019

It’s Time to Start Feeling Again

The Importance of Full-Sensory Experience and the Case Against Efficiency — Americans are experiencing the majority of their waking lives in 2D. According to a study by Neilson, the average U.S. citizen spends over 11 hours per day on their devices. Considering sleep, that means the average American spends more time looking at a screen than interacting with the full-spectrum universe…

Design

9 min read

UX: It’s Time to Start Feeling Again
UX: It’s Time to Start Feeling Again
Design

9 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Jun 5, 2019

Why Experience Design is Marketing Gold

Referrals are the Lifeblood of Any Business — Contrary to popular opinion, businesses are not successful because of their sales, marketing, human resources, advertising, brand, or sophisticated acquisition strategies—they are successful because their product or service is awesome, and the palpable experience it provides causes it to spread virally requiring a minimum investment in all of these former…

UX

5 min read

Why Experience Design is Marketing Gold
Why Experience Design is Marketing Gold
UX

5 min read


Published in

Modus

·Jun 2, 2019

Why You Should Wow Them at the End

Designing experiences with a positive ending boosts user perception and referrals — What does a free toothbrush, the fastest sprinter in a relay race, and the sweetest dish on the menu all have in common? They all happen at the end of an experience. This article is about the bulletproof rule anyone can use to boost their service business and even quality…

Psychology

6 min read

Why You Should Wow Them at the End
Why You Should Wow Them at the End
Psychology

6 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Jan 20, 2019

18 Invaluable Lessons Skateboarding Can Teach You About Business and Life

This Activity Prepares You For Hardships — As a solo designer going through the inevitable hardships of opening and operating a business, I decided to reflect on what the activity has taught me along my journey. I’ve been skateboarding for over 15 years and although it is a physically demanding sport, I’m sure that if I’m still…

Business

7 min read

18 Invaluable Lessons Skateboarding Can Teach You About Business and Life
18 Invaluable Lessons Skateboarding Can Teach You About Business and Life
Business

7 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Jan 18, 2019

What Makes a Great Logo

Four Critical Qualities that Nobody Talks About — With the unveiling of the new Slack logo which has caught a lot of buzz, I decided to expound on some of the qualities of a great logo that nobody talks about. Let me preface this by saying this isn’t another article about logo design. While any of these ‘rules’…

Design

10 min read

What Makes a Great Logo
What Makes a Great Logo
Design

10 min read


Published in

Modus

·Jan 16, 2019

The Golden Rule of Being a Contractor

The fallacy that makes us bad at time estimates and how to fix it — There is one thing that all contractors (especially new ones) are very bad at. It’s one of the most challenging things to do properly, and the error is committed by both individuals and monolithic institutions — always and probably forever. …

Software Development

6 min read

The Golden Rule of Being a Contractor
The Golden Rule of Being a Contractor
Software Development

6 min read


Published in

The Startup

·Jan 11, 2019

The Art of Acquiring Customers

On Aristotle and Rhetoric — I’ve spent most of my career trying to design great products. Over time I’ve come to realize that a good concept and product is only half the battle. In a world of information overload, things need to be seen, and that task is becoming more and more difficult every day…

Marketing

10 min read

The Art of Acquiring Customers
The Art of Acquiring Customers
Marketing

10 min read

Jeff Davidson

Jeff Davidson

7.9K Followers

I help companies convert and retain more users · Get free design + strategy lessons on my site: http://jeffdavidsondesign.com/

Following
  • PCMag

    PCMag

  • Ethan Siegel

    Ethan Siegel

  • Steven Gambardella

    Steven Gambardella

  • Dan Pedersen

    Dan Pedersen

  • Koen Smets

    Koen Smets

See all (314)

Help

Status

About

Careers

Blog

Privacy

Terms

Text to speech

Teams