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What kind of product creator are you: facilitator, peddler, entertainer, or dealer?

August 04, 2016 by Hotjar team Startups, UX Design, Research & Insights

Building a SaaS product, app, or site?If you’re a Product Creator in any capacity, the way you build your product will dictate the level of success you'll achieve. Like me, you’ve seen products and apps come and go. Some disappear as quickly as they arrive, and some (like Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, et al) have achieved incredibl...

How to discover what your users want to read (so you can write it for them)

July 22, 2016 by Hotjar team

At Hotjar, we use Hotjar in everything we do.Whether it’s building, writing, scaling, designing, or hiring - Hotjar helps us make Hotjar better. We’re firm believers of practicing what we preach (a...

How to nudge for good (and not evil)

June 08, 2016 by Hotjar team

Have you ever wondered what your users think of your website? Sure you have. But have you let your users inform (even dictate) your design process? If you're like a lot of website owners in th...

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A guide for startups: giving your users the customer support they deserve

March 23, 2016 by Marc von Brockdorff

At Hotjar, we firmly believe that the user always comes first. Online startups can no longer get away with offering a mediocre product or a sub-par customer experience. Users expect a great user ex...

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We analyzed the homepages of 20 awesome startups and here is what we learnt

August 07, 2014 by Marc von Brockdorff

Your startup's homepage or landing page may be the one most important page of your site. Think of it as an empty canvas which you, as a business owner or web designer, can use to engage your f...

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8 skills you need to become a UX design rockstar

August 07, 2014 by David Darmanin

If you are expecting this to be a list of tools, devices or platforms then be prepared to be disappointed!Being a rockstar at UX design means that you can deliver bankable and measurable results wi...

A 5-minute guide to cloud hosting for startups and web designers

August 01, 2014 by Erik Näslund

Cloud hosting is used by almost everyone today, ranging from the newest startup companies to some of the biggest players in the industry (Pinterest, Airbnb and Netflix all run on publicly available...

5 UX mistakes that will make your visitors click the 'back' button

July 29, 2014 by Jonathan Vella

The very basis of UX Design is effective qualitative user research which is for the most part not achieved by reading - it's achieved by asking the right questions. When it comes to UX mistake...

Solving the pricing challenge: how today's startups charge their customers

July 23, 2014 by Marc von Brockdorff

Throughout the past few years, I have had the pleasure of working with extremely talented individuals on a number of tech startups. I love the process of taking an idea and turning it into a produc...