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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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Podcast Appearances

January 12, 2021: The Unofficial Shopify Podcast: The Most Common CRO Blind Spots
January 7, 2021: The Ecommerce Insights Show: Nick Disabato On Research And Testing No Online Store Should Be Without
April 18, 2020: Drop Dead Copy: Nick Disabato On Research And Testing No Online Store Should Be Without
April 14, 2020: Productize & Scale: A Productized Service—Without Growing a Team
April 14, 2020: Unprepared: Take This Time To Learn Your Customers with Nick Disabato
February 3, 2020: Latitude: Value-based design with Nick Disabato
November 18, 2019: Freelance Fish: Value-Based Design with Nick Disabato
September 27, 2019: Javascript Jabbers: A/B Testing with Nick Disabato
April 25, 2019: Unofficial Shopify Podcast: Split Tests That Win: How to Start Optimizing Your Shopify Store
February 9, 2019: Freelance: Nick Disabato: Proving Your Value
January 28, 2019: Wavebreak Podcast: What The Top Ecommerce Stores Know That You Don't
January 14, 2019: Honest Ecommerce: Value-Based Design - with Nick Disabato
November 23, 2018: Foundry: Value-based design, with Nick Disabato
March 9, 2018: UI Breakfast: Value-Based Design with Nick Disabato
February 6, 2018: Clients From Hell: Design Better, Get Paid More
February 5, 2018: Ditching Hourly: Value-Based Design
December 4, 2017: 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
October 4, 2017: Product People Podcast: How Nick Disabato built a profitable productized service
October 3, 2017: Paid Search Magic Podcast: Research-Driven A/B Testing for PPC Marketers
July 24, 2017: Traffic & Leads Podcast: AB Split Testing
July 9, 2017: Sellry Ecommerce Q&A: CRO and A/B Testing
June 29, 2017: Boagworld Show: Is your design providing significant value?
June 15, 2017: Big Web Show: If You Can't Stand the Heatmaps, Stay Out of the Conversion
June 13, 2017: Search Talk Live: Increasing Conversion Rates Using Design Research
June 1, 2017: Boutique Growth: How to Scale a Solo Consultancy
May 9, 2017: The Early Stage Founder Show: Increasing Your Profits with A/B Testing
April 20, 2017: Buyer Insights: Research Techniques to Understand Your Customers
April 18, 2017: McMethod Podcast: Research And Testing No Online Store Should Be Without
April 4, 2017: Cashflow Podcasting: How to Use a Product Ladder and Podcasting to Attract Clients
February 23, 2017: Rogue Startups: Split Testing Your Way to Success
February 16, 2017: Better Freelancing: Dare to be Different
February 6, 2017: Content Champion: AB Split Testing
January 9, 2017: Art of Value: Determining the Value of the Intangible
November 16, 2016: Betalist: Research Driven A/B Testing for Startups
October 25, 2016: Unofficial Shopify Podcast: A/B Testing: Is it a 'sack of money' button?
October 13, 2016: UI Breakfast: Research-Driven A/B Testing
August 16, 2016: Envision: Research-based A/B Testing
July 6, 2016: Elusive Moose: Research-Driven A/B Testing
March 31, 2016: Startup Success
March 28, 2016: Freelance Transformation: Building an Independent Consulting Business
March 22, 2016: Clients From Hell: How to Create a Solo Design Practice
March 22, 2016: Clients From Hell: How to Let the Right Clients Find You
February 2, 2016: UI Breakfast: Research-Driven A/B Testing
November 30, 2015: Robert Williams
November 18, 2015: Bleeding Ink: In Which We Herald A Renaissance
October 12, 2015: CartHook Show: How to Easily Implement Split Testing to Maximize Conversions
September 14, 2015: Web Agency Podcast: How Nick Disabato Productized Successfully Again, and Again, and Again
August 27, 2015: Double Your Freelancing: Using Productized Consulting to Scale Your Agency
July 5, 2015: Consulting Pipeline Podcast: Niches, Boredom, and Changing Your Focus After Becoming Known for Something
November 13, 2014: Freelancers Show: Productized Consulting
October 16, 2014: Bootstrapped Web: How to Build a Productized Service Business
October 14, 2014: Launch Solid: Interaction Design and Productized Consulting
September 29, 2014: Unofficial Shopify Podcast: Ecommerce Interaction Design
July 30, 2014: Go Media

Guest Blog Posts

Conference Talks & Meetups

All talks are in Chicago unless otherwise noted.

Segmetrics (webinar). August 2, 2023. Design Research with Metrics: Blending the Qualitative & Quantitative.
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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