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		<title>The Spotify Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A curious musical thing happened to me at a party last weekend. My friend said, “We’re going to Aaron X’s house.” I didn’t know Aaron, but his name sounded so familiar. We arrived at his place to the sound of Explosions in the Sky reverberating off the walls. And then it hit me: I knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eCommerce Q&amp;A with Senior Art Director Jaythan Elam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Do you feel there’s a trend towards minimalism in ecommerce design? What about minimalism works for ecommerce? A: I come from the school of thought that minimalism, while capitalizing on open space and fluidity, does not pair well with the heavy informatics of ecommerce design. That being said, the greatest design &#8211; ie form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Meme Killed the Fad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom gets a big kick out of my clothes. “I used to wear those when I was your age,” she says. Or, “I remember when those were popular!” What does she mean by that? I think incredulously. It’s even more unsettling when she muses over the things I do. “Oh, I used to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/the-meme-killed-the-fad/</link>
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		<title>Usability &amp; Agile Development: Tips for Integrating User Experience into the Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection.” ~Khalil Gibran Time, budget, and competing business priorities make it challenging to factor usability testing into project plans. Sometimes getting a product to market quickly is the “right” business priority for the client. With agile development projects, we add another obstacle to usability testing: release quick and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/usability-and-agile-development-tips-for-integrating-user-experience-into-the-process/</link>
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		<title>Caching via Sitecore&#8217;s HTML Cache</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HTML Caching Sitecore employs a number of caches to improve base performance in the system.  Some contain database items, others contain access information.  One of the most important from a development perspective is the HTML Cache, which (unless explicitly turned off) exists independently. Sitecore allows developers to place both .NET sublayouts and XSL renderings in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/caching-via-sitecores-html-cache/</link>
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		<title>Advertorial Blogs: High-Performing Content Outside Your Company’s Digital Territory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When considering your company’s content strategy, take into account all the options for deploying your branded content—not just on your own site and digital platforms—but also third-party sites, particularly in advertorial content on journalism sites. The advertorial blog can give your content exposure to new prospects and develop customers into brand advocates. Online magazines are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/advertorial-blogs-high-performing-content-outside-your-company%e2%80%99s-digital-territory/</link>
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		<title>The Happiness ROI: How Online User Engagement Impacts Your Bottom Line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you make your site enticing for happiness seekers? On the way back from a super-collaborative session provided by the J. Boye CMS Experts group, I found some time to read this month’s Harvard Business Review.  It has some interesting takes on the notion of measuring happiness (and by extension managing it).  I wondered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/the-happiness-roi-how-online-user-engagement-impacts-your-bottom-line/</link>
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		<title>The Business Case for Adobe CQ5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In making the case for an expensive software integration, short term vision is rarely going to bare out the costs. But midterm expenditures show, from a variety of viewpoints, the value and utility of an integration with the Adobe CQ5 platform. The coming updates (CQ5.5) on the venerable Adobe WCM/CMS will make an even more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/the-business-case-for-adobe-cq5/</link>
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		<title>Sitecore Performance Analysis via Load Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following blog post is part of a series on Sitecore optimization from the forthcoming NavigationArts’ whitepaper entitled “Advanced Sitecore Performance Optimization”.  View more posts in this series here http://blog.navigationarts.com/tag/sitecore-optimization/. Load testing is a necessary and often overlooked tool in the optimizer’s arsenal, often relegated to a step after optimization has taken place.  Indeed, at first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.navigationarts.com/sitecore-performance-analysis-via-load-testing/</link>
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		<title>Customizing the Sitecore Workbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sitecore CMS is nothing if not completely flexible.  I&#8217;ve been working with Sitecore for almost 4 years now, and have yet to encounter something I can’t customize if I really want to. Recently, a project that I was working on had special requirements for the Sitecore Workbox.  The Workbox is sort of like the [...]]]></description>
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