Episode 204: TMBA 204 – “Above the Fold is Dead” – 8 Design Tips For Non Designers
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/does-good-website-design-matter/ http://www.tropicalmba.com/does-good-website-design-matter/ On Thursday mornings at 8AM EST, we publish the Tropical MBA Podcast (iTunes link). You might have noticed that as we’ve been combining our two websites into one (we are gradually moving “Lifestyle Business Podcast” content over to this domain), we have been changing some of the design elements of this site. During this process,...
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the show, we're going to be talking about some pretty high-minded design principles. |
| 0:05.0 | Like, here's one I hadn't even considered. |
| 0:07.0 | We used to design for above the fold, and you can pretty much forget that concept now. |
| 0:13.0 | Interesting. |
| 0:14.0 | We also have got a phone call from our friend Mark Manson who shared with us some incredible results he saw by implementing some of these ideas. |
| 0:21.7 | So I switched from postmasculent to markmanson.net. |
| 0:24.5 | The first month's growth in terms of traffic was just like stupefying. |
| 0:31.3 | I had 1.1 million page views in the first month. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome to the Tropical NBA podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | You can find us at Tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:43.9 | I thought I was the host. |
| 0:45.3 | You're supposed to be the co-host. |
| 0:48.1 | Welcome to the Tropical MBA podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | You can find us at Tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:56.7 | Hey, Ian, how do you feel it's your new podcast home? Are you feeling comfortable? |
| 1:00.6 | I feel great. |
| 1:02.5 | The other day, I said I wanted to do a podcast about design, and you said there was no way we can do a podcast about this. |
| 1:08.2 | What I said is there's no way you can talk about design without a screen. |
| 1:12.2 | And you said, O contrary, my friend. |
| 1:13.9 | O contrarre, I took it as a challenge and went and tracked down the guy that knows more about |
| 1:18.6 | this stuff than anyone I know, John Myers, Kaiser Sose, and we brought him here to the |
| 1:25.1 | Tropical NBA podcast. |
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