Building our own tracking engine with MongoDB
There are few things we love more than understanding how people are using Thumbtack. Whenever possible, we use direct interactions with our users to learn about their experience. We perform usability...
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“The most efficient graphic constructions are those in which any question, whatever its type and level, can be answered in a single instant of perception, that is, in a single image.”- Jacques Bertin,...
View ArticleHow to improve A/B testing with Mixpanel
Introduction We enjoy using Mixpanel and enjoy A/B testing. In this post we show how to use Mixpanel’s API and our own open-sourced A/B testing statistics package to easily create A/B tests in...
View ArticleThe usability experts were right: 5 changes we made to increase conversion by...
At Thumbtack we use A/B testing on just about everything we do. Integrating A/B testing into your product workflow allows you to quickly iterate and get feedback to create an awesome product. With each...
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