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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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014

Published
August 27, 2018

The explosion of design tools has come at a cost

 

Sketch, Framer, Figma, Adobe XD: Design tools are proliferating, but they don’t always simplify the design process.

Source: FastCo. Design
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How apps have the potential to save lives

 

Apps that allow deaf people to call 999 and blind people to find volunteers to ‘be their eyes’, are two winners of this year’s Tech4Good awards.

Source: The Guardian
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What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design?

 

Understanding how product design impacted these outcomes is critical for anyone trying to grow a new mobile business.

Source: Luke W Blog
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The zany logistics of London’s Baby Trump protest balloon

 

Graphic designer Matt Bonner had never designed an inflatable before. Armed with £29,000 and very little time, he set about creating a blimp Baby Trump.

Source: Wired
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Fostering focus for small screens

 

How we redesigned Dropbox mobile for rapid work.

Source: Dropbox Design via Medium
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Microsoft’s Xbox adaptive Controller has packaging that gamers with disabilities can open without their teeth

 

Microsoft has really thought about gamers with disabilities.

Source: The Verge
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Designing with Data

 

Interpreting and Analyzing Data as a Designer.

Source: UX Collective via Medium
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The Good, The Bad & The Biased (Five ways visualizations can mislead and how to fix them)

 

How can we craft visualizations that effectively communicate the right information from our data?

Source: ACM Interactions
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Centauro: A New Disaster Response Robot From IIT

 

This hybrid of robot human and robot horse is designed to rescue you from disasters.

Source: Spectrum IEEE
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