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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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012

Published
July 30, 2018

The Five Stages of Grief Over the Death of Pie Charts

 

Help your client get through them as fast as possible.

Source: UX Planet via Medium
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The True ROI of UX: B2B Redesign Case Studies

 

User-centered design isn’t just about creating a great experience for customers—it’s also a smart business move.

Source: Toptal
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Introducing the GOV.UK Design System

 

The Design System contains styles, components and patterns to help teams in government create user-centred digital services. It brings together the patterns and code found in the Service Manual, GOV.UK Elements and elsewhere.

Source: GOV.UK
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The Psychology of Rating Systems

 

Earlier in 2017, Netflix made a big move — ditching their star rating, replacing it with a thumbs-up and thumbs-down rating system. YouTube had taken a similar turn almost a decade ago, in 2009. When it comes to ratings, it’s pretty much all or nothing.

Source: Hacker Noon on Medium
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The 3 Little Known Factors That Dictate Successful User Tests

 

One of the biggest frustrations for user researchers revolves around participants either not turning up, or dropping out mid-way through a remote user testing session.

Source: Loop11
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I Used The Web For A Day With Just A Keyboard

 

Many of us are taught to make sure our sites can be used via keyboard. Why is that, and what is it like in practice? Chris Ashton did an experiment to find out.

Source: Smashing Magazine
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Digital Nudging: Guiding Online User Choices through Interface Design

 

People interact with e-government applications; trade financial products online; buy products in Web shops; and make decisions based on content presented in organizational information systems.

Source: ACM
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Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable

 

The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems. Designers and technologists should take cues from military history and embrace the orange.

Source: FastCo. Design
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Avoiding Half-Assed User Research

 

If you sacrifice in the wrong areas, you can end up gathering incorrect or incomplete information that can lead to poor design decisions.

Source: UX Matters
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