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Deceiving your customers: dark patterns or bad design?

(This post originally appeared on the carwow Product & Engineering blog on Medium) You may find this hard to believe, but not all people behind your favourite websites have your best interests in mind. Some, you might even say, are out to squeeze every last penny from you before you leave. Ads covering every spare […]

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Don’t let the HiPPO drive the bus

This article first appeared on the carwow blog on Medium. Gut feel and opinion go a long way, but it can also take you down the wrong path if you don’t listen to your audience. At carwow, we’re strongly opinionated but it doesn’t rule our decision-making. We use data and user feedback to inform our opinions […]

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How to growth hack your business and achieve sustainable results

The first rule of Growth Hacking? Don’t talk about growth hacking. That was my paraphrased tweet quoting one of the speakers at the Growth Hacking Conference in London recently. It seems I’m not the only one who isn’t a fan of the name but feels the principles behind it are sound, if a little misunderstood. Many people […]

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Making an ass of your assumptions

When faced with a problem it’s very easy to go with the obvious answer. If we expected X to happen but instead we got Y, then we can only assume Z must be the reason. If presented with a hard fact, we tend to fill in the blanks to make sense of why something didn’t […]

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Business Performance Customer Experience Mobile Product Development Social Media

3 principles of realtime interaction in an Always-On culture

It’s remarkable how quickly the Always On culture has established. It’s insinuated itself within our lives to the point people often remark they cannot remember what they did or how they coped before it. Social and Mobile are, of course, at the heart of its meteoric rise. The adoption of both as ‘must-haves’ in our […]