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An Ode to Christmas, Brought to You by Advertising

Let me tell you why Christmas is my favorite holiday. Because you, my advertising colleagues, deserve a high five from our fore-mostly-fathers, and that’s…

Marketing

What’s a Digital Agency, Anyway? Explaining Your Job To Your Parents

‘Tis the season (for familial life updates). With the winter holidays (or, if you’re reading this at some other time, an inevitable family reunion or wedding) just around the corner, the stress of…

Taste the Airline: The Case for Integrated Experiential Advertising

Traditional Ads Alone Just Won’t Cut It. Our world is positively drenched in advertising. Before you fall asleep tonight, you’ll have likely seen upwards of 5,000 ads today alone. But even in today’s over-saturated ad landscape, reaching the right consumers (and…

The UI Toolbelt: 10 apps to get sh*t done

Every team has their own set of tools they think are the cat’s pajamas. With so many apps to choose from and so many workflows emerging from the ether, it’s no wonder designers are having a hard time figuring out where to turn. Don’t…

An Industrial Designer's Guide to Replicating Products with 3D Printing

Intro We recently finished a project for Proctor and Gamble that set out to highlight the sustainability efforts being put into some of their most popular products. The concept was a three-walled interactive video display that was triggered by placing one of 6…

Marketing

Websites Aren’t Dying: Adjusting Your Digital eCommerce Strategy in 2019

What’s happening A Medium article raised some hairs on the necks of CMOs recently, proclaiming loudly and confidently that websites are dying. The author isn’t wrong. Website traffic…

Development

Thinking of Becoming a Certified Scrum Master? Here’s 3 Reasons to Do It

I hate conferences. Panels and speakers inspire us, but don’t leave us with actionable skills or knowledge. Even as an extrovert, I’m overwhelmed by the forced networking. Vendors aggressively compete with their…

Industry

Modern Medicine: Three Tech Companies Creating Tectonic Changes in Health

Health is holistic. It’s likely you’ve been thinking about your health and wellness a lot more lately. It’s not just because you just scrolled passed your dream physique on…

Development

Chatbots: Types, Tech, Applications, Mitigations, and Suggested Services

Intro to The Modern Chatbot Driven by advances in conversational AI, the modern chatbot provides a simple, effective, and friendly interface to augment your existing client outreach efforts. While still an emerging…

Development

Updating Slack Status with Siri Shortcuts (and Zapier)

   I try to be a good Slack user. That means keeping my status updated at all times to reflect my whereabouts and availability – but who…

Development

Mechanized Marketing: Using Automation to Eliminate Repetitive Tasks

Automation. To some, it’s a saving grace, using technology to save you (and your team) tons of time. To others, it’s a trigger word, leaving you wondering about the fate of humanity (think…

Management

Agile IAT: Four Principles for Better Interagency Collaboration

Interagency Collaboration: It’s Time for An Upgrade There’s a noticeable, somewhat paradoxical trend in the agency world – agencies are  expected to be specialized and lean, while also…

Design

Artificial Emotional Intelligence: Creating Humanized Bots

Chatbots are everywhere in the marketplace. In fact, they’re growing (despite peak hype occurring somewhere in 2016). As more companies begin implementing the use of AI assistants…