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	<title>Amir Khella</title>
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		<title>Sketch: Art and Science Are Not Enough</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/03/12/sketch-art-and-science-are-not-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
[Inspired by Caleb Chung’s TED talk.]
               You might also like reading...Malcolm Gladwell outliers  &#8211; A very personal reviewThe catchStanding out &#8211; Advice from Seth Godin]]></description>
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		<title>Docverse acquired: An Inspiring Success Story</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/03/09/google-acquires-docverse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Working with Docverse has been one of the highlights of my career. When I reconnected with Shan and Alex after they moved from Seattle to San Francisco, and heard their pitch, I got totally hooked by their vision for the product; what excited me wasn’t just how great their technology was, but how focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Elephant in the Dark: A Story</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/03/03/the-elephant-in-the-dark-a-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, there existed a village that was completely inhabited by blind people.&#160; 
One day, an elephant came to the village.
Since none of them had ever seen an elephant before, they all gathered around the animal to figure out how it looked like.
 
The man who touched the trunk said: &#34;An elephant is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Development Hacked: How to find and interview 10,000 customers in one day</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/02/24/customer-development-hacked-how-to-interview-10000-customers-in-one-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/02/24/customer-development-hacked-how-to-interview-10000-customers-in-one-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re creating a new product, a question might be lingering in your mind: How do you find the right customers to interview?
Here is one of the traditional methods for conducting customer interviews:
1. Make an educated guess about your target audience’s demographics
2. Look in your contact list and social network for people who might match [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My four steps to the epiphany: Lessons learned from creating a minimally viable research product</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/02/17/my-four-steps-to-the-epiphany-lessons-learned-from-creating-a-minimally-viable-research-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2004, I had my first entrepreneurship experience in an unlikely place. I was still working on my PhD, when I received an invitation to spend the summer at Microsoft Research. Some of the finest researchers there have been working my topic of interest, and I was eager to see what they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which moment does your product own?</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/01/04/which-moment-do-you-own/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/01/04/which-moment-do-you-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a pitch practice at the Founder Institute, I heard something that really captured my attention and  inspired me to think about product stories in a new way. After describing a scenario, the founder in the hot seat said:
&#8220;&#8230; and I want to own that moment.&#8221;
I started thinking about which successful products own which moments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The User Journey &#8211; How to Design for Ecstasy</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/12/16/the-users-journey-how-to-design-for-ecstasy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/12/16/the-users-journey-how-to-design-for-ecstasy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I read a post on Derek Sivers&#8217; blog about how drama can be mapped on a two-dimensional charts, and I was inspired to think about the user&#8217;s journey through a product in a similar fashion.
One of the most useful design practices to create good landing pages is to visualize each website visit as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From corporate design to startup design: A love story</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/12/07/corporate-design-vs-startup-design-a-love-story/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/12/07/corporate-design-vs-startup-design-a-love-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about a designer who left his corporate wife and fell in love with a startup chick.

View more presentations on SlideShare.

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		<title>The eagle who lived as a chicken</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/11/04/the-eagle-who-lived-as-a-chicken/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/11/04/the-eagle-who-lived-as-a-chicken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t violate fundamental design laws &#8211; even when you are Apple</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/11/03/dont-violate-fundamental-design-laws-even-if-youre-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/11/03/dont-violate-fundamental-design-laws-even-if-youre-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the iPhone O/S update brought a voice recording feature to the device, I was happily surprised because I love using recorders to take voice notes on the go then transcribe them later on.
When I started using the application, I liked the visual skin of the application but was frustrated by its usability: the application, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you love something, give it away</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/31/if-you-love-something-give-it-away/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/31/if-you-love-something-give-it-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is very little for me to say after watching this.


               You might also like reading...Useful advice from Lao TzuSketch: Art and Science Are Not EnoughPurpose]]></description>
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		<title>The Day Death Spared Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/29/h7a30/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/29/h7a30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a true story
Traffic on the freeway slowed down to a halt that Friday evening. Everyone was coming from the same direction and going to the same destination. After a long sunny week, clouds were starting to gather, looking down at the streets in sarcasm, and preparing the town for another rainy weekend.
He stops [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The monkey trap</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/24/the-monkey-trap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/11/listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I asked myself: Whom am I listening to?
Every day, I am presented with dozens, if not hundreds, of voices and opinions.
The voices of news anchors, journalists and bloggers.
The voices of book authors and narrators.
The voices of actors and show hosts.
The voices of my teachers.
The voices of my family and friends.
And the voices of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D3 &#8211; Designing with Clients</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/10/10/designing-with-clients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few months ago, we started experimenting with a new Design workflow that we called D3. D3 stands for Deep Dive Design. Prior to D3, we used a communication-intensive process where we involve clients and users in the input and output of each design iteration: vision, usability metrics, stories, tasks, requirements, brainstorming, sketches, wireframes, and visual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/28/home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Welcome back home”, the immigration officer smiled, before handing me back my green card.
I dragged my luggage and started walking across San Francisco International airport.
“Home?”, I wondered. “Is this now home?”
When we travel to different places, we typically have a place to return to. That’s typically home.
But those who move away from a place where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful advice from Lao Tzu</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/26/best-startup-advice-from-lao-tzu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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Act without doing;
Think without effort.
Think of the small as large,
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult,
while it&#8217;s still easy.
Accomplish the great task,
by a series of small acts.


               You might also like reading...Design thinking for startupsWhich moment does your product own?Is your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Feature is Not The Experience</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/17/the-feature-is-not-the-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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               You might also like reading...Design thinking for startupsThe eagle who lived as a chickenD3 &#8211; Designing with Clients]]></description>
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		<title>Design thinking for startups</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/09/design-thinking-for-startups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2008 web 2.0 expo in San Francisco, I held a round table discussion about design thinking for start-ups. The premise of the discussion was to 1) learn the difference between design (the artifact) and design thinking (the mindset), and 2) to discuss how to integrate best practices for design thinking into the product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Client testimonials&#8217; word cloud</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/09/our-testimonials-word-cloud/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/09/our-testimonials-word-cloud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last startup weekend, a friend pointed me out to a fun tool for creating  typographic word clouds called wordle. Today, I decided to play more with it and I gave it the testimonials that clients left in my LinkedIn profile.
After some tweaking to the fonts and colors, here is what the output looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delve Networks ranked among the top 50 Most Usable RIAs</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/06/delve-networks-ranked-among-the-top-50-most-usable-rias/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/09/06/delve-networks-ranked-among-the-top-50-most-usable-rias/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I worked with Delve Networks to design their user experience. This week, O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s InsideRIA blog mentioned Delve as one of the most usable Rich Internet Applications.
Here is what Theresa Neil thought of the design:
Delve designers realized content creators weren&#8217;t interested in navigating through a  bunch of screens to accomplish tasks. They have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The human side of business</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/07/08/the-human-side-of-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first came to the States, I carried with me a lot of stereotypical expectations nourished by the American media that I was exposed to before I arrived. One of them was about medicine. And of course, no show gave a better stereotype about it than E.R. My first month in America proved the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret life of ideas</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/06/23/the-secret-life-of-ideas-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I had an experience that taught me one of my life&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The catch</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/06/23/the-catch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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Two young MBA couple graduated and landed great jobs in California. They realized that they had some time before their job starting date, so they flew to California a couple of weeks earlier and enjoyed spending their days on the beach.
One day, the Devil walked by and saw them, so he approached them and said: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The circus elephant</title>
		<link>http://blog.amirkhella.com/2009/06/16/the-circus-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amir</dc:creator>
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When I was a kid, my school used to host a circus every summer. In the morning, I would sneak behind the circus tent and watch the animals being fed and trained. That was one of my greatest joys.
I remember looking at the elephants, and noticing something that fascinated me and kept me wondering for [...]]]></description>
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