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“If it’s really expertise you need, build a network of mini-mentors: instead of one, all-holy, gate-keeping mentor, find a handful of people across industries and experience levels that you can look to for their expert advice in their fields.” Mentorship as You Know It Is Dead

http://99u.com/articles/39153/mentorship-as-you-know-it-is-dead via Instapaper

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Prototypes are a great way to explore solutions to a design problem. For good prototypes, there is a four-phase iterative process designers use to find solutions. Each of phase is important, so spend equal time on each part of the process.

Plan: Think about what you want to learn about your problem and how you go about doing it.

Implement: Build a working prototype. This can be a quick sketch or something built in HTML. You want your team to learn something from this prototype.

Measure: Collect information from your prototype. This will help guide your team towards future decisions.

Learn: Ask your team what you learned from this process. What new information will help guide you to your solution?

adapted from “Exploring the Problem Space Through Prototyping” by Jared M. Spool

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Might come in handy (bad German pun intended)…

http://www.mobiletuxedo.com/touch-gesture-icons/

taken from the always oh so inspiring iOS Dev Weekly

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Some very nice thoughts on using auto-renewing vs. non-renewing subscriptions in hindsight to your user's satisfaction and their long term impression about you.

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Pattern Library: Mailchimp got it right, learn from it

Take a look at Mailchimp's Pattern Library. It's contains examples and code snippets for all elements - including animations and icons. It makes makes you believe it's really easy to make a page for MailChimp. Have a look at this when you're about to build your own pattern library.

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The interactive resume of Robby Leonardi is too impressive to describe, pure HTML5 coolness. Just check it out yourself.

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Create an Apple-like one page scroller website (iPhone 5S website) with One Page Scroll plugin

Pete from Bangkok (aka The Pete Design) made a jQuery plug-in so everybody can have his own Apple-style one page scroller.

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I've said I want to be next ESPN, the next CNN and the next MTV rolled up into one. Well everybody says, "He's a megalomaniac lunatic." ...if you look, for example at Machinima with 3.5 billion views a month, you wouldn't be the next CNN. You would be the next CNN 10x.

Shane Smith, CEO of Vice Media, on why Vice has an interactive-first approach.

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How Evernote can make reminders work much better...

...just allow me to procrastinate in 1-click!

Setting or changing a date for a reminder in Evernote is okay, but it take some clicks. First you need to click the 'clock' icon than you have click the 'change date' / 'add a date' button in the first panel in order to show the second panel with the calendar. This might result in cleaned up panels, but in this case less is less.

Combining the two panels would make a lot of sense, because it gives the user access to some very basic functionalities which are frequently used together.

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Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.

Seth Godin on misunderstanding quality.

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Product management is one of the hardest jobs to define in any organization, partially because it’s different in every…

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Three Questions You Shouldn't Ask During User Research

1) Don't Do: Asking About the Future

2) Don't Do: Asking How They'd Design a Feature

3) Don't Do: Asking by Providing Their Reason

Taken from UIE

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Here’s a messy little truth about most decision-making processes: if you place a firm time limit on discussion and everyone knows there’ll be a vote at a specific time, you’ll get better-quality decisions than if you just let your team run out the clock with endless debate and try to push through an agreement at the end of the meeting when everyone is tired and irritable.

http://99u.com/workbook/17341/placing-a-time-limit-on-decision-making-yields-higher-quality-choices

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interface changes before server calls…