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HOW Design Live 2014 speaker Seth Godin writes in "The Icarus Deception" that creativity, seeing connections between disconnected things and recognizing novelty are keys to success in the new economy. 
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These new online shopping sites offer unique presents that you can purchase from the comfort of home.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
As our Ecommies proved (read Is Ecommerce Stuck in the Mud on Curatti.com linked below) BIG online retailing is pretty moribund. Went in search of NEW, more inspirational shopping and found this post on a host of new ecom websites. Promies an Ecommie Award for the little guys soon. http://www.timeout.com/newyork/shopping/best-new-online-shopping-sites-holiday-gift-guide-2013
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Brush up on what’s trending in the creative world with this quick look at the top visual design themes and tools for 2014.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Fun infographic from istock on trends for 2013 from nurturig fathers to beards. Smart designers and Internet marketers find ways to create "bridge content" to surf trends like this. Atlantic BT held an annual "beard off" others might right content for how their product or service helps "nurturing fathers".
Amanda Groover's curator insight,
December 15, 2013 10:43 PM
Marketing in this decade not only needs but REQUIRES the ability to think outside of the box! Look at some of the trends appearing in a marketing campaign near you in the next year! 
Jakarta Web Developer's curator insight,
August 11, 2014 5:15 PM
Web and Graphic Design Trends 2014 – Infographic via istock (Midyear Check) 
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
August 12, 2014 3:06 PM
Interactive infographic:
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A free type resource, a voice against logo design plagiarism (finally!) and a travel site that works—these are just a few of the best website designs featured this month.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Loved the logo thief site, too cool. M
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If you’re looking forward to changes that come with starting a new year, you may also be excited to learn what sorts of trends are emerging in the web design
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great post and here are my takes on web design trends that will disappear next year:
10 web design trends we WISH would go away (but won't)
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My real estate agent Stephanie Lane just sold my home in Durham so I could move funds into my nonprofit Story of Cancer Foundation. I was thinking about how I would help redesign StephanieLane.com even as friends such as Phil Buckley (@1918), Mark Traphagen (@MarkTraphagen) and Bill Gassett (@MassRealty) have been thinking about creating a new real estate online design revolution. This post is about that revolution and about why the old print based real estate model, something still exerting pull, doesn't and will never work online.
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Apple's clear navigation, romantic heroes (largest images on the page) and easy to understand information heirarchy (based on a grid) are design tactics any website should steal as this excellent post about websites who've stolen direclty from Apple's design shares.
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The Museum of Modern Art goes mobile with MoMA Audio+, a new interactive platform to enhance visitors' museum experience.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Cool thinking here by MoMA's design team as they redesigned an old museum tour audio model from stem to stern.
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Doing good is increasingly the right thing to do and that is the good news. The bad news is many companies are jumping off the "cause marketing" ledge like so many lemmings. 1. American Red Cross $3,329,153,7072
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Cool idea for quick "tune ups" for designers here from How Design.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great idea from How Design Magazine to help designers with one week tune ups via online learning.
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Attracting a potential customer is hard enough. Grabbing their interest and retaining them is even more difficult. It's important to design your site
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Of these 8 very deadly sins the most deadly in my experience is the first one. When customers don't know where you want them to go and what you want them to do or where they came from (within you site) they get confused. Confused customers do many things buying is never one of them.
Michael Allenberg's curator insight,
November 13, 2013 7:36 PM
An info graphic about UX... WIN WIN!!! 
Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
November 15, 2013 3:53 PM
More on great design for maximum impact. This time, websites.
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Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
I like this approach of telling a story in a series of related images. Lean is visual and design keeps makes connections needed to move the "story" forward. Well done and a tactic worth stealing
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It's been about five years since the last redesign of my website, Hitched. A lot has changed since then, most particularly the rise of mobile.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Don't disagree with any of these 2014 web design trends highlighted by Forbes.
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
December 26, 2013 10:21 PM
The pace of change seems to have gotten even faster over the last year.
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Little doubt enterprise crowdfunding will play an important role in ecommerce next year. As the first Ecommies shared on Curatti.com Ecommerce is stuck in its own mud (http://curatti.com/is-ecommerce-stuck-in-the-mud/ ).
Enterprise crowdfunding is about to explode too and eCommerce will be changed by the addition of a new low cost, high return marketing channel that reminds us of what email marketing used to be before everyone started curating email with mobile devices, driving open rates down even as the size of many lists increase.
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What do we predict will be the web design trends in 2014? Here is an infographic with our predictions Curating content INTO a website (or blog) is an important trend no one has quite figured out yet either. Start with traditional ORM (Online Reputation Management) tools. Use ORM to crack some APIs so when something relevant happens to your company, brands or products out there in social media's north forty you
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istock approached creatives from around the world and collected the strongest trends in colour and design: Pantone's Color of the Year and Top 10 Hot or Not.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Pantone weighs in with hot color trends for 2014.
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The purpose of this post is not just to present the state of today's web design - it’s more pragmatic. Seven basic principles of a good web design are presented here. 1. Website Design Can’t Win, But You Can Sure LOSE Due to It.
Stay with simple, clean and useable as your guide.
4. Confused customers do many things, BUYING and CONVERTING and never among them.
7. Devil is in the web design details.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
One of the best posts about website design I've read in a long time. So much of what WE think is "website design" either "was website design" or is more an expression of someone's ego than what is happening NOW. This post is one of the best "what is happening now" in website design articles I've read. M
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The new word in content marketing is small. Increasingly, brands are marketing via short-form social media like Vine, Twitter, Instagram, Instagram video and the newer platform Snapchat--not by broadcasting their silly old messages but by treating their prospects and customers with respect, engaging with them directly through brief snippets of conversation, personality and humor. But it's not just for fun: Consumers who engage with brands via social media demonstrate a deeper emotional commitment to those brands and spend 20 to 40 percent more than other customers, according to a report from Bain & Company.
Taco Bell has been killing it on Twitter, creating a hip, fun presence to turn customers into evangelists. Based in part on its snappy, very human interactions, the fast-food giant generated enough early buzz to make Doritos Locos Tacos its most successful product launch to date.... Via Jeff Domansky, luigi vico
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great post for content-phobic startups. If sitting down and blogging daily is too much find alternatives for "little messaging" and do so more frequently and more visually (video, graphics). I'm a content and social marketer so would prefer to have both long form and short form content, but if creating the one is too intimidating create the other (short form) since some content marketing is always better than none.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
November 25, 2013 11:47 AM
Ann Handley says increasingly, brands are marketing themselves via short-form social media.
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The social web is about conversation. This is a fascinating post about exactly what is a conversation and how we can design an environ,ent that supports them.
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Charlotte website design and marketing firm Fame Foundry is a trustcasting agency dedicated to helping businesses grow.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great post here may include in Lean Design book we are putting together. Can't afford to print al those beautiful pictures though, so be sure to read/look at these great inspiring examples.
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Levi Make Your Mark A Magnificent Mess
Patrick Townsend's curator insight,
November 25, 2013 10:46 AM
Levis "make your mark" is great way to show perional style!
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I'm not sure what to blame such a poor showing on basic holiday ecommerce design on, but this year's November crop is flat, uninspiring and junky.
Randy Ksar's curator insight,
November 13, 2013 7:40 PM
interesting topic on #ecommerce UX design. any other websites that you know are doing innovative desktop or mobile ecommerce design work?
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I've discussed web design's "What If" future before. Friends challenged me to explain what I see in pictures instead of words. The Google presentation here explains the cross functional team we will need to create great websites soon.
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a weekly article intended to always follow the trends happening in the world of graphic design and visual arts Via Yesta Desamba, Adriana Montoya
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
I love the bridge here between two of my favorite topics - visual art and graphic design.
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How Design's take on Seth's latest book, Icarus Deception, is fascinating and focused on the creatives they serve.