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The secret to winning fans and pleasing customers might just be simplicity of design. We talked to a trio of user-experience pros about how they create intuitive (and highly successful) products.

Talented engineers and project managers both play key roles, but much of the success of your website hinges on this key person. Last week, I talked about all of the people involved in designing a website that drives business

Customers buy brands, not products. If you can't articulate the reason for your company's existence, you're going to lose out.

This is the third in a series excerpted from a new chapter in the paperback version of Good Boss, Bad Boss , a New York Times bestseller by Robert Sutton . Read the first installment, Are You A Power Poisoned Boss?

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Alexander Osterwalder is an expert on business model innovation. Heres what he has to say about your current business model -- and why its not working.

Americans spent $200 billion online in 2011. The opportunity for retailers is huge--but you're not going to grab it with a DIY website. A report this week from Forrester Research confirmed what just about everybody in business already knew: Americans are buying online and they are buying a lot

Butch & Harold's peel-and-stick wall art, dry-erase boards, and sticker picture frames were a hit with retailers, but online sales were nearly nil.

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Let's do the weekly electric boogaloo through a menagerie of mechanical wonderthings. No humans required.

Picture the scene: It's 2004, and Brian Chesky , the future cofounder and CEO of Airbnb , runs up on stage in full cap and gown to the pulsating bass line of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Chesky's set to give the student commencement address at Rhode Island School of Design--but before reaching the mic, Chesky rips off his black robes, revealing a white tuxedo underneath, and starts dancing to the beat: moonwalking, crotch-grabbing, robotting.... Fast-forward a mere eight years, and rhythmically dubious Chesky's the chief executive of a company now valued at $1.3 billion . (His comical graduation speech is pretty much the opposite of Steve Jobs's Stanford address .) On second thought, don't imagine that dance number from yesteryear

User experience is a priority that should, in some way, find a home within the design of any new-media strategy.

Seattle-based sports equipment manufacturer K2 has produced top-of-the-line skis for the last four decades, and this year it has teamed up with BMW M, the German brand’s high-performance sector, to develop the K2 LTD. BMW M Design Edition.

iPad 3 Arrival Date According to the usual wonderfully unreliable (and always anonymous) " sources ," Apple may be poised to reveal the iPad 3 during an early March event, with in-store availability just a handful of days later. If you look at the booking information for the Yerba Buena center in San Francisco, an Apple staple for this sort of event, it looks like Wednesday March 7th is being held open for an undisclosed booking (or at least this day is oddly empty among a cluster of other bookings).

Meet Eric Kuhn, who has one of the few startups in America that isn't rushing to gain millions of users. Eric Kuhn, 41, is the founder and CEO of