CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS
A bi-weekly hand-picked grass-fed locally-sourced list of the industry articles our creative technologists are currently reading. Topics include customer experience, design, marketing, business, finance, technology, media, and storytelling.
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2019
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004
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15 Things You Should Know About Product Managers
This post is meant to build empathy for product managers, and to understand their world just a bit better.
Source: Product Management via Medium
How white space killed an enterprise app (and why data density matters)
Spacious. Minimalist. Clean. Bountiful white space has become the de facto design aesthetic in consumer apps.
Source: UX Collective via Medium
Is Agile the Enemy (of Good Design)?
To have this discussion, we need to first talk about Integration.
Source: Hacker Noon via Medium
The Secret History of Women in Coding
Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
Source: The New York Times
Principles For Designing Better Products
As a general rule, to build something great is not about more hours and resources thrown at a problem, but less bullshit.
Source: UX Planet via Medium
Cameras that understand: portrait mode and Google Lens
For both Apple and Google, most of the advances in smartphone cameras now happen in software.
Source: Ben Evans
Improving Digital Literacy Is ‘Simple’
In the age of robotic process automation and artificial intelligence, the need for digital literacy has become essential for today’s technology workers.
Source: CMS Wire
Galleries From A to Z Sued Over Websites the Blind Can’t Use
For decades, lawyers for the disabled have used the Americans With Disabilities Act to force businesses to make their spaces more physically accessible, by adding ramps, widening doorways or lowering countertops.
Source: The New York Times
Legacy banks are fighting back against the Monzo insurrection
As more and more digital ‘challenger’ banks push their way onto our smartphones, legacy banks are fighting back. But will they be able to catch up?

