I’ve spent the last 25+ years building digital products, starting with web and moving into UX/UI, product design, design systems, no-code and now AI-assisted product building. Teaching has also become a big part of my work. I’ve mentored 70+ designers one-on-one and supported 4,500+ learners worldwid and published 20+ native apps as a team of one :) I also run UX/UI Hub, where I’ve built an audience of around 5,900 subscribers across 152 countries. India and the US are currently the biggest audiences, but there are people on the list from all over the world. The list is focused mainly on UX/UI, product design, careers and education. So I’m not starting from zero when it comes to building an audience, but I’m here because I want to get much better at the business side of it: email, positioning, offers, monetization and turning what I already know into something that compounds. I’m especially interested in learning how to build an audience and business around my broader expertise, rather than only being known as a UX/UI designer. Happy to be here, and hopefully I can contribute some product, design, AI and education experience to the group along the way. ❤️‍🔥

Probably old news here. Significant Objects, a literary and anthropological experiment devised by Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, demonstrated that the effect of narrative on any given object’s subjective value can be measured objectively. The project auctioned off thrift-store objects via eBay; for item descriptions, short stories purpose-written by over 200 contributing writers, including Meg Cabot, William Gibson, Ben Greenman, Sheila Heti, Neil LaBute, Jonathan Lethem, Tom McCarthy, Lydia Millet, Jenny Offill, Bruce Sterling, Scarlett Thomas, and Colson Whitehead, were substituted. The objects, purchased for $1.25 apiece on average, sold for nearly $8,000.00 in total. (Proceeds were distributed to the contributors, and to nonprofit creative writing organizations.) All the project’s stories are archived on this site. Glenn and Walker are now pleased to announce that a collection of 100 of the project’s finest stories has been published by Fantagraphics in a highly impressive volume, masterfully designed by Jacob Covey. It is available now via Powell’s, Amazon, B&N, or wherever finer books are sold.

I saw a post recently by forum CEO John Bejakovic where he made a very crude joke about "list size." After reporting John to HR for re-education, it dawned on me that so many members of Daily Email House must have felt just as appalled as I did. It's clear that "list growth" is a big problem for our community. Just look at the screenshot I took. Look at it! With that said... You don't have to settle for a micro-list, and there's a billion ways to add subscribers. I'm curious...which of these sound the MOST sexy to you? If you could only pick ONE way to lengthen your list, which would it be?

... I am currently promoting the best and easiest method I know to create a $1k offer that 1) sells and 2) makes sense to deliver for $1k. More details here