Communication Design
Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intermission such as printed, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people
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Design habits – Tip your hat to your design heroes
TLDR: Inspired by design masters, this can aide your creative process: User first through to competition analysis, (innovation nit imitation), tofamiliarity and then focus on value then finally beautiful execution Contents As a junior designer, way back when, I visited our local design museum (I studied in London, UK, so my local design museum was…
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Setting up Photoshop like a Pro UXer
TLDR: Photoshop, the designers ‘must-have’ is such a flexible tool that there are many ways to set up your workflow. contents Layer Compas and Smart objects After some 20 years I have found these two to be the most efficient, most transferable within a team, and most manageable i.e. avoiding the dreaded spinning-wheel-of-death Layer comps…
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iOS Splash Pages – What’s the deal?
Every app needs an app icon and a launch image. This presentation concentrates on the all important Splash Screen Sometimes you have to just stick on the headphones, crank up the tunes and grind through the dullest part of your iOS project. And that’s slavishly grind out the assets for all the iOS family, particularly…
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Marketing your App through the channels
How to marketing a brand new digital product This is the challenging part of any marketing brief. You can target your Digital Tribes, whether they be Early Adopters or true Laggards, one sure-fire way is through traditional streams. Using traditional media is a concrete method of new product promotion and should not ignored. Remember: Print is NOT dead. Building…
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Pay With Your Phone #7 – Make a payment via Social Media
Mobile Wallet Payment Experiences…#7 This is an edited presentation of the principles behind the concept ‘Pay with your Phone.’ Of all the mobile touch-points the (now) more realistic possibility of a mobile wallet, NFC and simplistic mobile commerce is perhaps the most exciting. This post concentrates on the user journey ‘Make a payment via Social…
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Pay With Your Phone #5 – Big Ticket Purchase
Mobile Wallet Payment Experiences…#5 You can watch the animated version here Jane purchases a new TV to watch the Olympic Games Following on from my serions deadling with Pay With Your Phone #1, #2, #3 and #4, this post is about those luxury items with luxury prices. The value of voucher purchase, and the growth of Groupon have…
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