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Hello! This is a repository of all of our most recent appearances in blogs, podcasts, and conferences, as well as our latest writing (I’ve written four books and dozens of articles over the years, about design, life, and community!) Stuff in bold is among the best: we cite these frequently and find them to be especially helpful.
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Blurbs
- Shopify Partners Blog: How to Conduct Research That Drives A/B Testing
- 99u: Following the Hunch
- Freelancers Union: How to Build an Online Community On Slack
- Creative Class: Product-Wise Consulting
- Double Your Freelancing: Panning for Smaller Offerings
- A List Apart: Publication Standards
Podcast Appearances
- Art of Value
- Better Freelancing
- Betalist AMA
- Unofficial Shopify Podcast
- UI Breakfast
- Envision
- Elusive Moose
- Clients From Hell
- The Consulting Pipeline Podcast
- The Business of Freelancing
- Bleeding Ink
- The Unofficial Shopify Podcast: The Most Common CRO Blind Spots
- The Ecommerce Insights Show: Nick Disabato On Research And Testing No Online Store Should Be Without
- Drop Dead Copy: Nick Disabato On Research And Testing No Online Store Should Be Without
- Productize & Scale: A Productized Service—Without Growing a Team
- Unprepared: Take This Time To Learn Your Customers with Nick Disabato
- Latitude: Value-based design with Nick Disabato
- Freelance Fish: Value-Based Design with Nick Disabato
- Javascript Jabbers: A/B Testing with Nick Disabato
- Unofficial Shopify Podcast: Split Tests That Win: How to Start Optimizing Your Shopify Store
- Freelance: Nick Disabato: Proving Your Value
- Wavebreak Podcast: What The Top Ecommerce Stores Know That You Don't
- Honest Ecommerce: Value-Based Design - with Nick Disabato
- Foundry: Value-based design, with Nick Disabato
- UI Breakfast: Value-Based Design with Nick Disabato
- Clients From Hell: Design Better, Get Paid More
- Ditching Hourly: Value-Based Design
- Marketer of the Day: Heatmaps, Scrollmaps, Analytics, User Testing, A/B Testing and Troubleshooting: Increase Your E-Commerce Website Profits with Conversion Consultant Nick Disabato
- Product People Podcast: How Nick Disabato built a profitable productized service
- Paid Search Magic Podcast: Research-Driven A/B Testing for PPC Marketers
- Traffic & Leads Podcast: AB Split Testing
- Sellry Ecommerce Q&A: CRO and A/B Testing
- Boagworld Show: Is your design providing significant value?
- Big Web Show: If You Can't Stand the Heatmaps, Stay Out of the Conversion
- Search Talk Live: Increasing Conversion Rates Using Design Research
- Boutique Growth: How to Scale a Solo Consultancy
- The Early Stage Founder Show: Increasing Your Profits with A/B Testing
- Buyer Insights: Research Techniques to Understand Your Customers
- McMethod Podcast: Research And Testing No Online Store Should Be Without
- Cashflow Podcasting: How to Use a Product Ladder and Podcasting to Attract Clients
- Rogue Startups: Split Testing Your Way to Success
- Better Freelancing: Dare to be Different
- Content Champion: AB Split Testing
- Art of Value: Determining the Value of the Intangible
- Betalist: Research Driven A/B Testing for Startups
- Unofficial Shopify Podcast: A/B Testing: Is it a 'sack of money' button?
- UI Breakfast: Research-Driven A/B Testing
- Envision: Research-based A/B Testing
- Elusive Moose: Research-Driven A/B Testing
- Startup Success
- Freelance Transformation: Building an Independent Consulting Business
- Clients From Hell: How to Create a Solo Design Practice
- Clients From Hell: How to Let the Right Clients Find You
- UI Breakfast: Research-Driven A/B Testing
- Robert Williams
- Bleeding Ink: In Which We Herald A Renaissance
- CartHook Show: How to Easily Implement Split Testing to Maximize Conversions
- Web Agency Podcast: How Nick Disabato Productized Successfully Again, and Again, and Again
- Double Your Freelancing: Using Productized Consulting to Scale Your Agency
- Consulting Pipeline Podcast: Niches, Boredom, and Changing Your Focus After Becoming Known for Something
- Freelancers Show: Productized Consulting
- Bootstrapped Web: How to Build a Productized Service Business
- Launch Solid: Interaction Design and Productized Consulting
- Unofficial Shopify Podcast: Ecommerce Interaction Design
- Go Media
Guest Posts
- Shopify: 11 Ecommerce Trends You Need to Turn Your Attention to in 2021
- Ecommerce Tech: The Best CRO Tools for Ecommerce
- ConversionXL: How to QA Ecommerce Email Campaigns to Increase ROI
- ConversionXL: Mobile Optimization Tactics
- 99u: Following the Hunch
- Freelancers Union: How to Build an Online Community On Slack
- Creative Class: Product-Wise Consulting
- Double Your Freelancing: Panning for Smaller Offerings
- A List Apart: Publication Standards
Conference Talks & Meetups
- MicroConf Remote. May 21, 2025.
- Unspam. April 09, 2022.
- EcommerceTech. October 6, 2020. Knowing What to Test Next for Fun and Profit.
- EcommerceTech. July 27, 2020. Knowing What to Test Next for Fun and Profit.
- Honest Ecommerce. May 27, 2020. What's Working With Bonobos.com with Nick Disabato at the Shopify Virtual Meetup.
- Full Stack Friday @ Devbridge Chicago. April 12, 2019. Value-Based Design.
- Creative Mornings Field Trips. April 3, 2019. Write a Case Study with Nick Disabato.
- Product Hive Meetup. March 15, 2019. Measuring Design’s Impact, Decision by Decision.
- eCommerce All-Stars. August 1, 2017. The Draft Method.
- Find Your Moose. September 7, 2016. Research-Driven A/B Testing.
- Double Your Freelancing Conference. June 20, 2016. Stockholm, Sweden.
- BaconBiz 2016. May 26, 2016. Philadelphia, PA. Dirk’s Friday Fresh Fish Flash.
- Mac & Cheese Potluck. June 17, 2014. Design patterns in release notes.
- Weapons of Mass Creation. August 17, 2014. Literally Everything that Happened to Me Regarding My Consultancy Business Between January 27, 2012 and June 3, 2013, Including the Parts that are Too Uncomfortably Personal to Responsibly Share at a Professional Conference.
- BaconBiz 2014. May 29, 2014. Philadelphia, PA. Killing off unsuccessful products.
- Refactor Chicago. May 21, 2014. You Should Probably Be A/B Testing.
- Laconi. March 28, 2014. Skokie, IL. Interviewing & Iterating: Putting the User Back in User-Centered Web Design.
- BaconBiz 2013. May 30, 2013. Philadelphia, PA. Cadence & Slang.
- AIGA Chicago. November 29, 2012. Designer as Author.
- Penn State University. October 23, 2012. State College, PA. Digital's Rising Tide: DIY and Publication Standards in Digital Collections.
- Cluncon. May 31, 2012. Skokie, IL. Keynote.
- O'Reilly Tools of Change. April 9, 2012.
- IxDA. February 24, 2012. Atlanta, GA. Dark Patterns.
- Web 2.0. October 11, 2011. New York, NY. Deceptive UX: How to Trick People and What to Do About It.
- SxSW. March 14, 2011. Austin, TX. Behavior Design & Persuasion on the Web, with Chris Risdon & Brad Nunnally.
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