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An interview with Tony Hsieh – CEO of Zappos.com

June 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

 

There is a huge buzz around Zappos recently. I had some questions on my mind regarding the great culture of that company (which is clearly it’s competitive advantage). The main thing was whether this culture was born in lengthy strategy meetings or was it more of an evolution of the company.

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An interview with Jesse James Garret

November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment

While visiting San Francisco, I though it would be great to drop of by Adaptive Path’s offices and interview AP’s president, Jesse James Garret, who is one of the founding fathers of the UX movement.

For those of you who didn’t hear about Jesse till now (I’d be surprised if you didn’t), here is a short summary:

Since 1995, Jesse works in the fields of Information Architecture and User Experience.

In 2000, Jesse founded, together with 6 other professionals, Adaptive Path, which is one the most important User Experience consulting firms which has been working with clients like Nokia, Sony, Oracle, GreenPeace and more.

In 2002, Jesse wrote the seminal book The Elements of User Experience, which up till today is one of the most important books in the field.

And now, to the interview:

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