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Ex-Googler: Google’s AI projects are driven by ‘stone cold panic’

Search Engine Land

That’s according to a LinkedIn post by Scott Jenson, a former Google employee of more than 15 years who left his role as a part-time senior UX designer last month. Jenson believes AI has value, but not the motivation driving it at Google. Why we care. Stone cold panic. This myopia is NOT something driven by a user need.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Articles on product launches often lay out a start-to-finish strategy that applies tactics along a linear path to success. Lies, damned lies, and product launch statistics.

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12 SEO pitfalls to avoid during a website platform migration

Search Engine Land

Several years ago, a classifieds website considerably trimmed and simplified its category tree during a platform migration without realizing it was one of the primary drivers of organic traffic. As such, start optimizing early, long before the launch date. They lost nearly 40% of their SEO market share and have not yet recovered.

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Ecommerce Best Practice Report 2017

ConversionXL

We just launched a comprehensive guide (247 guidelines) on ecommerce best practices , all derived from user testing and custom research. Improve your ecommerce sales with our conversion-focused UX guidelines. Know what elements affect the conversion heuristics of clarity, friction, motivation, and distraction/focus.

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Why UX is critical to digital marketing

Martech

One of the key skills that the digital marketing industry is sadly ignoring, howver, is that of the User Experience (UX) expert. The absence of UX experts on digital marketing teams shows that those in charge of these teams still believe that everyone can be all things. I would have no idea. So, it’s definitely a number below 100%.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Everything they do is scrutinized by its potential impact on scalable growth… An effective growth hacker also needs to be disciplined to follow a growth hacking process of prioritizing ideas (their own and others in the company), testing the ideas, and being analytical enough to know which tested growth drivers to keep and which ones to cut.

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How Codecademy Saw 5X Growth with Strategic Testing

ConversionXL

This research informed better hypotheses, which allowed us to launch better tests and start unraveling bigger problems—problems we couldn’t solve without changing fundamental parts of our business. You can capture more money upfront, lower churn, and increase user motivation all by experimenting in these two areas.