Should Someone Pay for the Unique Experience of You?

K18 hand plane

It depends. Are you actually unique? You’re looking at a custom woodworking hand plane that sells for over $5,500.00 CDN. Yes, over $5K. Not the typical $20-$200 for a plane you would buy at The Home Depot. This is a story about finding your niche and hyper-targeting people who are willing to pay almost anything…

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Career interview with Mike Tschudy, Head of Design at Mint.com

I had the pleasure of talking with Mike Tschudy about his career path recently. Mike is the Head of Design for Mint.com. He shared a ton of good advice about intentionally planning your career, finding good sounding boards, and taking a step back occasionally to reevaluate your path. The full transcript of our discuss is below…

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UX Talk – Designing for Love & Money – Video and Slides

Designing for Love and Money

In this UX talk at the Fluxible conference, I explored the battle between love and money as it applies to products, organizations, and even our own careers. Over the past 20 years, I have developed strategies to deal with this problem, both as an individual contributor and as an organizational leader. Regardless of where you…

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Larry Cornett’s Patents

Well, that was kind of fun. Happened to notice the “Patents” section on my Linkedin profile and decided to look up my old patents. I definitely worked on some geekier products back then. Method of operating a graphical user interface to selectively enable and disable a datapath in a network United States 6,636,239 Issued October 21,…

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Designing for Love and Money – Fluxible 2013

Virtuous cycle of love and money

In this talk, Larry explores the battle between love and money as it applies to products, organizations, and even our own careers. Over the past 20 years, Larry has developed strategies to deal with this problem, both as an individual contributor and as an organizational leader. Regardless of where you happen to work, or in what context, it’s an unavoidable issue that every designer must face and resolve.

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Designing for Love and Money

From a Design Talk at Airbnb on Nov 14, 2012. Larry Cornett explored the natural tension that exists between design and money as it applies to products, organizations, and even your own career. https://youtube.com/watch?v=2W4nj1e9Ke0  

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Have a few mins? Please take the Brilliant Forge 2012 Designer Survey

  There are 10 questions total. Please feel free to share this link with the other designers you know. The more data, the better! I’ll report the results in a few weeks. Thanks! [button link=”https://www.brilliantforge.com/brilliant-forge-2012-designer-survey/#.UKQLNGl_VK4″ size=”large” style=”note” color=”orange”]2012 Designer Survey[/button]    

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Presentation: The User Experience IS the Product Experience

The User Experience IS the Product Experience from Larry Cornett Presentation Transcript The User Experience IS the Product Experience, Product Management Conference, Larry Cornett, Ph.D. Overview The Power of Product Experience User-Centered Product Design (UCD) The Role of Product Management Product Success at eBay Q&A The Power of Product Experience Focus on UX matters It…

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