How to Get People to Do Stuff: The Power of Stories- Our stories about ourselves deeply affect how we think and behave. If you can change someone's story, you can change behavior.
When It Comes to Your Online Startup, Timing Is Everything- Today the opportunities are smaller and require greater time and capital to be competitive, but imagine what would be possible if you were in the right place at the right time. The good news is that innovation and opportunity are still happening around us all the time. The key is to find the emerging opportunities and align your startup with those opportunities. This chapter provides a framework that can prove helpful.
Techniques for Successful Facilitation: Preparing for Personalities- The authors of Designing the Conversation: Techniques for Successful Facilitation offer advice on how you, as a facilitator, can prepare for and learn to deal with different types of personalities and behavior traits.
- Dialogues with Creative Legends: An Interview with David Calvin Laufer
- David Calvin Laufer discusses his many dialogues with influential visual designers and business leaders, such as Paul Rand, Herb Lubalin, and George Nelson.
How to Overcome Browser Challenges in Web Design- Browsers have different levels of support for CSS features, as well as different interpretations of how to render HTML. By using tools like normalize.css and validating on multiple devices, we can address many of the challenges of web design. However, thereโs no substitute for knowing and learning about your audience and working to build them the best site possible, as Christopher Schmitt advises in this chapter from Designing Web and Mobile Graphics: Fundamental concepts for web and interactive projects.
