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Five Reasons "Original" Art Rules 2019 Marketing We share five reasons "original" art, illustrations and videos rule 2019 marketing.
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Reading a gaggle of predictions for 2019 design and marketing we found agreement. "Original" art, illustrations, videos, and ideas will rule marketing in 2019. Original is in quotes because you, me, and everyone we know will use stock images next year,
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Five Web Design Steals
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My take on the Chrysler Museums new website and what it can teach us about web design.
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Prepare yourself for 2019, with this look into the biggest design trends of the year. We’ve covered it all, from typography to illustration and more.
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Look Closely At Trends #2 and #3
Sharing process, warts and all, break the third wall - the wall between visitors, viewers, and creators. We develop enough of a framework to receive feedback and then cooperate with those special customers to shape a two-sided dynamic conversation. Happening NOW.
Experience always happens NOW — these two trends, immersive and exposed, wreck marketing as practiced in favor of community, conversations, and customers. Control, still a figment of a marketer's imagination, moves from marketers to curators and analysts.
Maddening means now there's a penalty for being only slightly out of touch. Create a passive one-sided campaign, and you'll do more than spend money carelessly. Preach without conversation, and you'll pay with cash and brand equity. And the later is the vastly more valuable and hard-earned currency.
Promise to blog about this topic further on Curagami.com. M
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Stephan Schmitz creates editorial illustrations that offer a reflection on modern life. The poignant images are a mirror to how we deal with technology, our families, and more.
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Love design that uses one element to make another point like some of these dramatic and arresting examples.
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40 Best Freebies for you. Start your New Year 2019 with these Freebies and Free Resources. Big list of handpicked freebies for designers and developers.
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Couldn't live without freebies and fremiums (stuff you use for free until you can't stand it anymore and choke up the pro money).
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Minimal Is Hard I love this post about how to be a game designer minimalist because doing less is the hardest thing. The ideas shared are applicable to web design too. The Basics"The general purpose of minimalism in game design is to accentuate a game's specific elements by limiting the scope or detail of the other surrounding elements. For a simplified 'real world' example, imagine wearing a blindfold to place a greater emphasis on your sense of touch.
An entire game can be designed with minimalism as a core concept, but minimalism can also be invoked only when needed. Art, sound, gameplay, and narrative can all be subject to minimalist interpretations."
Read a great book, The Paradox of Choice by Schwartz, to understand why most websites lower conversion with too much choice. Designing a website creates the idea you can do more than you should. It's easy to create mess.
"Limiting" is an important word for any new web designer. Even as i write this I know chances are poor anyone working . on a websites wireframes is listening. There is something busy, chaotic and endless about web design.
Because we can do something doesn't mean it is the right thing to do.
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Great post for any web or graphic designer to read.
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Blockchain Be Coming Blockchain is coming and disruption will follow. Bitcoin is an example of a blockchain, but don't stop there. If currency can be "mined" and understood as an extension of those who use it isn't that statement true for all things?
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Insight into how blockchain will change web design.
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Smashing Perfect Sliders
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Great, comprehensive, and illustrated "perfect slider" tutorial from Smashing Magazine.
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UX Must Reads
If you're new to web design do yourself a favor and read at least two of these free User Interface (UX) design books. You'll save yourself time in the end if you know how to design for conversion, engagement, and functionality. That's not to downplay the need for excitement, but nothing turns more users off faster than a hard to understand website.
Free UX books will help save you design time, energy, and frustration.
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Wireframing Is A Pain But Less So
Wireframing, the act of prototyping web designs before writing code, is a pain. Less of a pain with these 10 wireframing tools all new to us.
We have used any of these tools, but xeroxing our wireframing template is old, hard to share, and takes too long.
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Rich Animations
Video is a must, but so are "rich animations". Rich Animations are infographic-like, fun and instructive graphics that come alive, play, and run much like a video.
Find examples in this Medium Post
https://medium.com/@lollypopindia/why-rich-animations-are-crucial-for-design-ab6e940fc8f6
Watching The Story of Stuff we realized there were some things, some hard things, better told via animation. A human narrator would have made the hard stuff too hard, but animating the devastation even our favorite stuff like iPhone create stopped the "rejection reflex" long enough to listen.
Not hard to see why animation is so effective. We've been brought up on cartoons, Sesame Street and Simpsons. If you aren't using animation to teach, engage, and make points you might otherwise not be able to make your website is less fun, effective, and profitable.
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Mobile app users are a different breed. They go to mobile apps for different reasons than websites. In sum, they want a faster, concentrated, and more convenient experience. However, since smartphone screens have limited space, it’s not really feasible to include an expansive menu or set of filters to aid in the navigation of an app.
What changes do you need to make to be "mobile first" with your search bar and search results? This Smashing Magazine post shares reasons why virtually any mobile application needs
