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Designs of the Week: Blog Ad Space

Posted on Sunday, Mar 8th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a business brand experience consultancy. How do you design web advertising into a blog, without it becoming an eyesore and a bad experience for readers? Naturally, these decisions will be a trade-off. You can’t just get rid of all ads and ignore your revenue stream. But

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 7th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. 3Strand’s Concept Features for Wesabe: Support Groups and Scorecard Trying to get your finances under control can be an extremely stressful and overwhelming process. Throw in the worst economic downturn Generation Y has ever faced, and you’ve got

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Designs of the Week: Blogs

Posted on Sunday, Mar 1st

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Thanks so much for your feedback last week on ways to improve the user interface design for SramanaMitra.com. Based on your comments, it looks as though the recurring themes are: 1) Readability/Distraction Points: Use of flash, ads, font

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 28th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. This week we’re continuing with our redesign of Wesabe.com, a money management/social networking site. Shown below is our redesign concept for Wesabe’s member homepage. Catering to Generation Y’s needs, our design approach is to make the homepage

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Redesign SramanaMitra.com

Posted on Sunday, Feb 22nd

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. As regular blog readers, how would you like to see the user interface and experience of SramanaMitra.com redesigned? How would you want to interact with it? What would you add? What would you take away? We’ll be

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 21st

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. These past few weeks, we have pretty much been living and breathing money management in our quest to find ways to improve the design of the user experience. Now it’s time to choose the lucky website to be

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Design to Fight Sex Trafficking

Posted on Saturday, Feb 14th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. Last year, we traveled to Bangkok to consult with a company that provided job training to victims of sex trafficking. They were making and selling products for the western market to support their efforts. The heart was

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Redesign That: Online Personal Finance (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 14th

By guest authors Charles W. Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation, a brand, design and business consultancy. This week we’re reviewing three more money management websites: Finicity/Mvelopes, Quicken and PNC Virtual Wallet. Finicity/Mvelopes Overview: This company is okay at everything but not special in any way. It charges you $13.20 per month (which is

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