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		<title>Less is the New More</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/05/less-is-the-new-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hellogoat.com/?p=192</guid>
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Giving everything to a user base is a trap. Once you do that you are stuck with an enormous product that becomes unmanageable and unusable – or at the most partially useable.
Your power users love to ask for more stuff. “My life would be so easy if you would just add this feature.” “I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving On</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/04/moving-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Overview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Start]]></category>

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Friday April 23rd will be my last day at Trisept Solutions. This is my current employer that I have been with for the last 7 years. They are the technology arm of The Mark Travel Corporation which owns and manages vacation packaging brands like Funjet Vacations, Southwest Airlines Vacations, United Vacations, etc.
Ok – background out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save Clients from Themselves</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/03/save-clients-from-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rush]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hellogoat.com/?p=183</guid>
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I would love what I do more if it wasn’t for all these clients… What?!?
That’s not true… I feel that way at times, but it’s not true.
That feeling comes when I know I just let a client walk all over me. It’s not their fault you see… It’s mine. Sometimes I’m afraid to lose a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not So Free Testing</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/03/not-so-free-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hellogoat.com/?p=171</guid>
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I recently was reading a blog post by @michaelseidel where he talks about user testing conducted with a larger company. He talks about testing a cross section of users – internal and external.
What does that mean?
External users are people who are recruited from all walks of life that don’t work for the company. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Group Think Fails</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/03/where-group-think-fails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hellogoat.com/?p=164</guid>
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Last week, Sue Spaight (@SueSpaight) wrote a fantastic blog post titled “Being Veruca Salt in a Corporate Culture.” In it she mentions that she took a psych evaluation for one of the companies she worked for and it concluded that she was “too independent and entrepreneurial to function in the confines of a corporate organization.” The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorilla Usability</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/03/gorilla-usability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[User Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hellogoat.com/?p=154</guid>
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&#8220;Wait&#8230; if I read the title correctly&#8230; are you talking about how people should go about using a gorilla?!?&#8221; No silly&#8230; it&#8217;s a play on words. What I am talking about is a usability study that @michaelseidel and I conducted recently @AJBombers. I want to share how you can do usability studies without breaking the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proper Deadlines</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/03/proper-deadlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clients]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>

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The ideal project would not have a deadline for my taste. I would love to have all the time in the world to design and develop a website nirvana that all users could navigate through effortlessly. This utopia, however, is unrealistic. First and foremost, the client would like to have a web presence sometime this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Might Get Loud and a Little Random</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/02/it-might-get-loud-and-a-little-random/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Content]]></category>
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Inspiration comes in many forms. I was watching a documentary the other night on the electric guitar called It Might Get Loud. The film says it’s about the electric guitar, but it isn’t… It’s about leaving a mark. The film followed 3 guitar players and talked about their lives, inspiration and drive. You may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 Sites That Inspire Great Design</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/02/25-sites-that-inspire-great-design/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/02/25-sites-that-inspire-great-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Inspire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WebDesign]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hellogoat.com/?p=113</guid>
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A while back a friend (@AquinasWI) and I were talking about design inspiration. It is pretty easy to get heads-down in our daily jobs and life and now stop to smell the roses. Working where we work there is a lot of design that comes through and we just take it as it comes.
We decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think you’re ready for a website?</title>
		<link>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/02/think-you%e2%80%99re-ready-for-a-website/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.hellogoat.com/2010/02/think-you%e2%80%99re-ready-for-a-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clients]]></category>
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There are a lot of small businesses out there that believe they need a website; or an internet presence. Unfortunately they have no idea what to do with it… they just know they need it.
So what do they do?
They contact a company like Hello Goat and ask what it costs to make a website. They [...]]]></description>
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