Being a designer at the moment is great because a wealth of modern design applications are available that let you easily bring your ideas to the screen: Sketch, Affinity Designer, Adobe XD (beta) and Figma, to name just a few (not to mention the classics, Photoshop and Illustrator). One app that is quite new, though…
Ask any digital marketer about the prerequisites for a successful campaign, and undoubtedly many of the answers will revolve around obtaining or making use of data points. Simply put, marketers — especially digital marketers — love data. But despite the love for pulling data, reviewing stats and identifying trends and outliers, it is no secret…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Bridging data and action: How to create killer reportsAug 21, 2017 by Amy Bishop Are your reports not having the impact you would have hoped? Check out columnist Amy Bishop’s tips…
If great design can imbue customers with trust, why are designers so removed from product management and the larger business strategy? As a VP of UX with an MBA, I strive to bring both worlds together to create a new model in which user experience and design align with overall business strategy and company vision…
UX design hasn’t been the same since Sketch arrived on the scene. The app has delivered a robust design platform with a refreshing, simple user interface. A good product on its own, it achieved critical success by being extended with community plugins. The open nature of the Sketch plugin system means that anyone can identify…
When two of the world’s leading AI research firms, Google DeepMind and Open AI, team up to research the “safety challenges” of artificial intelligence, you know the threat is real. While we may not have a sentient Skynet in the next decade, the greatest risk AI poses today is to your job. Fear of replacement…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Don’t worry, marketers. Robots won’t replace you… yet.Aug 18, 2017 by Joe Hyland Robots aren’t taking over marketing quite yet. But columnist Joe Hyland says if you want to save your…
The hardest problem in doing SEO isn’t the algorithm updates. It isn’t having access to the enterprise tools. It’s not even whether or not you have the experience to determine where to focus your efforts. No, the hardest problem in SEO is getting developers to actually execute recommendations. We all walk into projects hoping to…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: How to get developers to implement SEO recommendationsAug 17, 2017 by Michael King The best SEO strategy is meaningless if there’s no one to implement it! Columnist Michael King shares his…
You might have noticed it already: in the past few weeks you might have missed Anselm’s Web Development Reading List issues here on SmashingMag. No worries, from now on, we’ll switch to collecting the most important news of each month in one handy, monthly summary for you. If you’d like to continue reading Anselm’s weekly…
