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What Canada can learn from the Global South on climate change migration
This summer, wildfires have caused evacuations across Canada and recently forced thousands of people to flee their homes in Newfoundland and Labrador. Some of the biggest impacts are being felt in the Prairies. In Manitoba, authorities recently issued evacuation orders for 15,000 people, mostly in the province’s north. Many evacuees are brought to larger cities like Winnipeg, overwhelming hotels and emergency housing.
Canadian cities are unprepared for climate-driven migration-here's what they can do
This summer, wildfires have caused evacuations across Canada and recently forced thousands of people to flee their homes in Newfoundland and Labrador. Some of the biggest impacts are being felt in the Prairies. In Manitoba, authorities recently issued evacuation orders for 15,000 people, mostly in the province's north. Many evacuees are brought to larger cities like Winnipeg, overwhelming hotels and emergency housing.
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Canadian cities are unprepared for climate-driven migration - here’s what they can do
This summer, wildfires have caused evacuations across Canada and recently forced thousands of people to flee their homes in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Avalon Peninsula. The biggest impacts are being felt in the Prairies. In Manitoba, authorities recently issued evacuation orders for 15,000 people, mostly in the province’s north. Many evacuees are brought to larger cities like Winnipeg, overwhelming hotels and emergency housing.
How can strategic design thinking empower designers?
Lieutenant to his men: “Okay lads-who likes music?” “I do, sir.” “Me, sir!” “Me too, sir!” “Right. Sir!” Four of the men respond. Lieutenant: “Step up then, soldiers; I need you to move a grand piano to the officers’ mess hall.” How often do designers find themselves in the same position as these soldiers?
Design Principles: an Introduction to Visual Hierarchy
As technologies and user interfaces change, the need for design skills in visual design continues to grow. With fresh examples of a typical user interface emerging every year, has our fundamental understanding of visual hierarchy, perception, and composition changed? The modern concept of visual perception is rooted not only in science but also in psychology. Consequently, regardless of continually changing user interfaces, the way we see and perceive visual information will remain the same.
UX Propaganda: Psychological Techniques to Make Your Product Addicting
Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. ? Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali What is UX propaganda, and how can it make your product the next most addicting thing? By now, most people in the digital industry know how often products fail. On average, apps lose 77 percent of their users in the first three days. As an attempt to combat this high failure rate, designers refer to a tired checklist: Is your app user-friendly?
UX Propaganda: Psychological Techniques to Make Your Product Addicting
Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. ? Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali What is UX propaganda, and how can it make your product the next most addicting thing? By now, most people in the digital industry know how often products fail. On average, apps lose 77 percent of their users in the first three days. As an attempt to combat this high failure rate, designers refer to a tired checklist: Is your app user-friendly?
Convert Visitors With These Landing Page Inspirations
Converting visitors into leads is easier said than done. Many companies utilize content marketing to send traffic to their sites, but these efforts are wasted at the conversion stage by not using landing pages to generate leads. According to HubSpot, landing pages and similar inbound marketing strategies generate twice as many leads than non-inbound marketers.
Delight Users at Checkout With These Payment Page Inspirations
Payment interactions are incredibly important. They are the culmination of all other efforts on a site or app. To lose people here is to waste all of your other efforts. Around 68% of people abandon their carts before checkout, which amounts to $4 trillion in unobtained spending. If you have an awesome payment page, users who are on the fence about pulling the trigger will be delighted and will go forward.
Get Inspired With These Data Visualisations
These days, if you can’t show your data in a visually intuitive way, it’s essentially useless. No one is going to spend a long time on a web page trying to interpret data. On the other hand, if your visualisations are particularly clever, interactive, and intuitive, you will massively differentiate yourself. Yet, it’s difficult to do it well. Kirk Goldsberry works mainly in the sports world, but is a leader in data visualisation as well.
These Design Inspirations Can Change How We Read The News
The news industry has experienced tremendous turmoil in the past few years, and with tremendous turmoil comes new strategies, which put publications’ online experiences front and center. Websites are being redesigned, and mobile apps are being created left and right, which means the news industry is ripe with opportunities for designers with a vision. Before you can have a vision though, you need a lot of inspiration, which is why we wrote this post.
Let’s Redesign Facebook: 10 Inspirations to Get You Started
What does it mean to design for 1.9 billion people? This is the question that we must face when taking on the challenge to redesign Facebook. Many of Facebook’s business decisions often dictate future trends in digital products. Consider the current emphasis that Facebook is putting on Messenger and how this is being reflected in other products around the world. Redesigning Facebook is a massive opportunity for a designer. It’s so much more than just testing a new color palette.
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