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Docverse acquired: An Inspiring Success Story - 09. Mar, 2010 - 4 comments
The Elephant in the Dark: A Story - 03. Mar, 2010 - 0 comments
Customer Development Hacked: How to find and interview 10,000 customers in one day - 24. Feb, 2010 - 1 comments
My four steps to the epiphany: Lessons learned from creating a minimally viable research product - 17. Feb, 2010 - 12 comments
Which moment does your product own? - 04. Jan, 2010 - 0 comments
The User Journey – How to Design for Ecstasy - 16. Dec, 2009 - 1 comments
From corporate design to startup design: A love story - 07. Dec, 2009 - 2 comments
The eagle who lived as a chicken - 04. Nov, 2009 - 2 comments
Don’t violate fundamental design laws – even when you are Apple - 03. Nov, 2009 - 1 comments
If you love something, give it away - 31. Oct, 2009 - 2 comments
The Day Death Spared Me - 29. Oct, 2009 - 1 comments
The monkey trap - 24. Oct, 2009 - 0 comments
Listening - 11. Oct, 2009 - 0 comments
D3 – Designing with Clients - 10. Oct, 2009 - 0 comments
Home - 28. Sep, 2009 - 0 comments
Useful advice from Lao Tzu - 26. Sep, 2009 - 0 comments
The Feature is Not The Experience - 17. Sep, 2009 - 0 comments
Design thinking for startups - 09. Sep, 2009 - 0 comments
Client testimonials’ word cloud - 09. Sep, 2009 - 0 comments
Delve Networks ranked among the top 50 Most Usable RIAs - 06. Sep, 2009 - 0 comments
The human side of business - 08. Jul, 2009 - 2 comments
The secret life of ideas - 23. Jun, 2009 - 0 comments
The catch - 23. Jun, 2009 - 0 comments
The circus elephant - 16. Jun, 2009 - 0 comments
Finding a way around constraints - 02. Jun, 2009 - 0 comments
Adobe Flash Catalyst – First impressions - 02. Jun, 2009 - 0 comments
Standing out – Advice from Seth Godin - 27. May, 2009 - 0 comments
Purpose - 27. Apr, 2009 - 0 comments
How to spot a good designer in an interview - 18. Apr, 2009 - 0 comments
Every man dies, but not every man lives. - 22. Mar, 2009 - 0 comments

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The eagle who lived as a chicken

One day a young eagle fell off the nest and was picked up by a farmer. The farmer was kind enough to bring the small bird to his barnyard so that it doesn’t perish. The young eagle found a good home with the chicken and grew up believing he is a chicken. He waited for [...]
The monkey trap

There is a popular method used in the East to capture monkeys. The hunters place a bunch of bananas in a bowl with a narrow opening at the top, and they fix the bowl somewhere in the jungle. A monkey passes by and notices the smell of banana coming from the bowl. He inserts his [...]
The secret life of ideas

About a year ago, I had an experience that taught me one of my life’s biggest lessons. I learned it the hard way. Probably the most painful way.
A couple of friends and myself got together in Borders and sat down to chat about some ideas we had, and pick one to start working on. We [...]
Malcolm Gladwell outliers – A very personal review

I’ve recently finished reading “Ouliers” by Malcolm Gladwell (or rather, finished reading the first half, and skimmed through the second one). At the end of the book, I was both inspired and frustrated. I was inspired by the author’s demystification of success as a singular hero’s effort, and frustrated because there was a missing chapter [...]
How it all began (A personal story)

A year ago, I walked into my manager’s office and told him that I was quitting. I was probably more surprised at my decision than he was. I just changed teams, and I couldn’t have been happier with the new team: every person was cooperative, positive, and respectful. My decision wasn’t based on any rationalization, [...]

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Docverse acquired: An Inspiring Success Story | Amir Khella http://post.ly/Rj8o [amirkhella]
Published Google acquires Docverse.
Just learned that @hillmancurtis is releasing his film at @sxsw this year. too bad I can't make it #sxsw [amirkhella]
Congrats to @scribd on the new design. Looks and feels much slicker. [amirkhella]
Oh no! @evernote 's update made a big change in the table workflow. TAB no longer moves to the next cell or adds a new row :'( [amirkhella]
I learned a great new Mac shortcut: CMD+Option+Eject will put the machine to sleep. Saves me time! [amirkhella]
The Elephant in the Dark: A Story http://bit.ly/byjBY9 [amirkhella]
Shutter Island's twist was predictable. Hollywood needs new stories. [amirkhella]
Untitled http://post.ly/QH2O [amirkhella]
There are two ways to become unhappy: not getting what we want, and getting what we want. [amirkhella]
Apple should consider moving from floating panel designs to more integrated contextual design. I spend a lot of time moving panels around [amirkhella]
Thanks everyone for your feedback on the UX design process sketches at http://bit.ly/cvAivW . A new version will be up shortly :) [amirkhella]
Taxes. UGH!!! [amirkhella]
RT @kim: "If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake." - Frank Wilczek (via @Ribeezie) [amirkhella]
This is funny: Google Chrome doesn't support Google Gears! [amirkhella]
PixelStick: Measure pixels on the screen (Mac only) - must have for designers http://bit.ly/bfyXu0 [amirkhella]
RT @mcavalcanti: @amirkhella, great presentation about design thinking. I didn't know how to name it, but I really like to do it :-) [amirkhella]
My user experience design process http://post.ly/PvBB [amirkhella]
Just finished a sketch visualization about my #UX and #Design process http://bit.ly/cvAivW . What do you think? [amirkhella]
Published Shape Virtual Trainer.