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How to Measure Distances 'As the Crow Flies' With Google Maps

It’s easy to use Google Maps to see how far your office is from your favorite restaurant or how long it’ll take to drive from Los Angeles to New York. Estimating the distance between two locations without relying on winding roads messing up your estimate, however, is a bit more complicated. Sure, you could try and measure it with the distance scale at the bottom corner of your screen, but a quirk of Maps (which we originally learned of on reddit) makes estimating…

The Hidden Costs of T&E

How to manage the expenses you see—and especially the ones you don’tIf you’re an organization with people on the move, automating the travel and expense process can make something complex and time-consuming much more efficient, and bring visibility to the majority of your T&E budgetWhat about the blind spots?Automation is only part of the solution, however. While most systems track clear-cut T&E…

How to drive through all 48 of the contiguous United States in 113 hours

Stephen Von Worley at Data Pointed mapped out the most efficient drive that would take a person through every state in the lower 48 and D.C. The route begins in

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7 Ways to Quickly Judge the Quality of Your Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Design

In my years of working with hardware entrepreneurs I’ve seen too many cases of poorly designed Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) that would never be of sufficient quality for commercial production. In some cases these boards were designed by the entrepreneur themselves, and other times they were designed by a freelance engineer. As I think many electrical engineers will agree, most engineers are never taught PCB design…

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Human Centred-Service Design: How to deliver great service in the 21st century

To create fulfilling service experiences, facility and design managers need support from methodologies capable of putting people, their experiences and behaviours at the centre of the entire design process. Human-Centred Service Design represents such an approach. In the future, facility services managers will be asked to prioritize the design of a service delivery system that...

Home sweet home: Why Houzz is worthy of the ‘best app’ award

Last month, home improvement company Houzz won ‘best app’ at the Google Play Awards.

Use Better Service Design to Transform Customer Experience

Service design is under-recognized and undervalued by businesses resulting in a missed opportunity to transform the customer experience into a more positive one