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# 003

CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS

Geeking out about stuff.

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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2018

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003

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March 26, 2018

Broadening design to include systems, platforms, and product-service ecologies

 

Traditionally, design practice and design education have focused on giving form to physical things—apparel, buildings, messages, tools, and vehicles—the artifacts that constitute material culture.

Source: Dubberly Design Office
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Modern Communication Zombies

 

We are living in a time of Armageddon and we have a serious problem with zombies. A communication virus is turning us into modern zombies, and we are losing chunks of our humanness.

Source: The RSA
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Design for a Vision

 

We’ve all been there—reacting to micro feedback, responding to a VP request, making small tweaks for small gains. They all add up progressing your product / site / experience but it always detracts from holistically crafting a strategy, a north star, a vision.

Source: Google Design via Medium
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Why Designers Need to Start Thinking About Blockchain

 

Blockchain. You’ve heard the word. Perhaps you’ve invested in a digital currency or two. But do you really know what the technology is and why it matters?

Source: IDEO
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AVA: The Art and Science of Image Discovery at Netflix

 

At Netflix, the Content Platform Engineering and Global Product Creative teams know that imagery plays an incredibly important role in how viewers find new shows and movies to watch.

Source: The Netflix Tech Blog via Medium
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How focusing on the customer (not the competition) brought us over 1 M new signups in a year

 

If we indulged our FOMO and imitated the competition, our product might not work for those users.

Source: The Startup via Medium
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Don’t take design critique as an insult

 

Receiving feedback is a natural part of the design process, and in every round of feedback the design tends to get stronger and tighter. But how do you avoid taking feedback personally?

Source: UX Collective via Medium
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Flow Patterns: Make Site Flows in Fine Visual Detail

 

How effective are your site flows? If your site flows aren’t visual, they aren’t that effective.

Source: UX Movement
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The Next 3 Billion in Financial Services

 

VIDEO: Traditional banking services have fallen flat for an enormous segment of the population — whether because they’re “unbanked,” or because the state of those services makes it even more expensive to be poor.

Source: Andreessen Horowitz
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